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| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 1308 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 99.189.153.223  Rating: N/A |
Have recently been reading about Nano Tech. One really interesting concept is they have a nano adative to add to water that makes the water cool up to 40% better. Still experimental, but with every car , truck , genset maker in the world chomping at the bit to reduce costly radiator sizes , it wont be long. For older coaches the new coolant MIGHT allow the fan off times to be far longer , saving a bunch of fuel.AS well as end the fear of going over 210F in a DD and blowing the head gasket. FF | ||
| ED Hackenbruch (Shadowman)
Registered Member Username: Shadowman Post Number: 321 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 69.98.207.45 Rating: N/A |
Didn't find the article about a water additive in a quick 2 minute search on google, but did find where they were talking about a coating that they can put on metal that transfers heat 4 times faster than the untreated metal. Interesting, thanks for the info Fred. | ||
| steve wardwell (Steve_wardwell)
Registered Member Username: Steve_wardwell Post Number: 103 Registered: 2-2010 Posted From: 75.202.92.221  Rating: N/A |
something like this could solve a lot our overheating problems that plagued many of us this last hot summer .....sounds great! | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 1309 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 99.189.153.223 Rating: N/A |
The most interesting part of the article claimed liquid water has a structure like solid water (ICE). The nano stuff is supposed to break up the water for better cooling. Now dimpled radiator tubing is about all we can do to "break up" the liquid water. I read about it in the tech issue of The Economist , but didn't save the issue. FF (Message edited by FAST FRED on September 27, 2010) | ||
| john w. roan (Chessie4905)
Registered Member Username: Chessie4905 Post Number: 1968 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.58.71.157  Rating: N/A |
If it's that great, it'll be too expensive to use; at least for a couple of years. Like led light bulbs for homes | ||
| Tony Gojenola (Akbusnut)
Registered Member Username: Akbusnut Post Number: 48 Registered: 11-2006 Posted From: 208.98.151.220 Rating: N/A |
More information here than I could absorb: http://www.transportation.anl.gov/pdfs/MM/401.pdf tg | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 1315 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 99.137.210.184 Rating: N/A |
What counts is that a 1% solution may have 25% better cooling. With 100 quarts of coolant in the Sportscar that would only be one quart of majic needed. The real question is will that quart cost a NASA $50,000 or a NAPA $4.95? FF |