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From: qualcom!kleing@UCSD.EDU (Klein Gilhousen)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Subs, Stirling-powered, liquid oxygen
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Date: 3 Apr 91 18:41:36 GMT
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From: qualcom!kleing@UCSD.EDU (Klein Gilhousen)

>From: urban@kista.relay.nokia.fi (Urban Fredriksson)
>The very latest in subs, for those who can't afford the
>cost and trouble with nuclear power, is to have a
>Stirling engine (almost no vibrations) fuelled by
>diesel oil and supplied with liquid oxygen. This makes
>you independent of snorkeling for 'weeks'.

But what do you do with the combustion products??
Wouldn't the exhaust make a lot of noise??

Klein Gilhousen
Qualcomm, Inc.