<div dir="ltr">Note that if SpaceX wants a sacrificial coating, they have PICA-X and the sintered silicon tiles.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 3:31 PM Rodney W. Grimes via Starlink <<a href="mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net">starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 1:41?PM Rodney W. Grimes<br>
> <<a href="mailto:starlink@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net" target="_blank">starlink@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > > As always I enjoy the flood of information we get on this list!<br>
> > ><br>
> > > still, so far, my research on a nitrogen deluge system (instead of<br>
> > > water) has come up empty for me, except as a fire suppressant. So it?s<br>
> > > either crazy or brilliant. Or both! I really liked the idea of<br>
> > > something cooler that was a natural byproduct of the LOX process...<br>
> ><br>
> > I dont think cooler does much, isnt it the "energy of vaporization"<br>
> > that is actually doing all the "work" in this type of system?<br>
> ><br>
> > H2O is 40.7 kJ/mol and LN2 is 5.6 kJ/mol so you would<br>
> > need ~7 times as much LN2 to do the same work.<br>
> <br>
> Now that! was the kind of numbers I was looking for!<br>
<br>
:-)<br>
<br>
> <br>
> Still, water has to come from somewhere, and be stored. I will keep<br>
> thinking about it. I like that they seem to think that a water cooled<br>
> steel plate will suffice.<br>
<br>
Water is a pretty ubundant resource...<br>
<br>
Now that water cooled steel plate, if you treat it like a sacrificial<br>
anode in a water heater, ie you expect it to be erroded over time it<br>
could get interesting. Energy of vaporization of steel well... lets<br>
call it iron (Fe) is 340kJ/mol. Large thick plates are rather easy<br>
to manufacture, and I am sure they could design the ficturing such<br>
that the blast held them in place against a concrete foundation.<br>
<br>
Also there is probably lots of good research on keeping water<br>
in contact with steel at high temperatures and volumes, think<br>
Boiling Water Reactor! Containing the flying molten slag would<br>
be a concern I suspect though.<br>
<br>
> <br>
> > And the reason N2 is used as a fire suppressant is again not<br>
> > because of temperature, but because it displaces the O2 and<br>
> > suffocates the fire. N2 is also easier on our ozone layer<br>
> > than the prior used Halon. Finally, this is usually<br>
> > compressed N2 gas, not LN2.<br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
> > Rod Grimes <a href="mailto:rgrimes@freebsd.org" target="_blank">rgrimes@freebsd.org</a><br>
> <br>
> <br>
> --<br>
> AMA March 31: <a href="https://www.broadband.io/c/broadband-grant-events/dave-taht" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.broadband.io/c/broadband-grant-events/dave-taht</a><br>
> Dave T?ht CEO, TekLibre, LLC<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Bruce Perens K6BP</div></div></div></div>