Promises promises..........well lets hope.

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In article ,
says...

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It does sound like the heat exchanger technology works, at least on
their test article. It certainly could have applications other than air
breathing HTHL SSTO. One application mentioned would be in ocean water
desalination plants.

Jeff
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magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:16:09 -0500, Jeff Findley
wrote:

In article ,
says...

http://technology-science.newsvine.c...vance#comments

It does sound like the heat exchanger technology works, at least on
their test article. It certainly could have applications other than air
breathing HTHL SSTO. One application mentioned would be in ocean water
desalination plants.

Jeff

Hmm, given the experience with the de-sal plant here in
Victoria(Australia) color me unenthusiastic!

"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
...

In article ,
says...

http://technology-science.newsvine.c...vance#comments

It does sound like the heat exchanger technology works, at least on
their test article. It certainly could have applications other than air
breathing HTHL SSTO. One application mentioned would be in ocean water
desalination plants.

Jeff

Yeah, see my post in sci.space.shuttle. Neat if it works, but yeah, I'm not
impressed.

Just seems like they're solving the wrong problem to me. But hey, if they
prove me wrong, great.


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