v-raze

that one AuDHD coyote friend

  • he/him/his

I love you all.

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avatar art by @Coyotlito


lupi
@lupi

if your fridge has exposed (or hidden under a fascia) coils like my 1970s GE Harvest Gold one does

vacuum or otherwise brush out your fridge's coils, it will thank you.


v-raze
@v-raze

Some of them are designed in such a way that getting to the coils effectively is nearly impossible (lookin at you, old Maytag with the coils all folded up under the bottom of it and no gaps to get a brush or vacuum head into). Getting behind it with an air compressor or electric leaf blower is a decent way of working around that limitation, if a bit messy for the rest of the room. Can set up a shop vac on the other side and that catches most of it though



BridgeUnit
@BridgeUnit

Fellow Cohostians, please accept this offering to Eggbug: the RAPU (Ridiculous Aviation Propulsion Unit)

The idea here is a radial engine mated to the fan (or first compressor stage) of a modern high-bypass turbofan.

A power-recovery turbine uses the radial's exhaust gases to turn both a supercharger and an electrical generator. The supercharger is coupled to the PRT via a planetary gearset with the ring gear being driven by an electric motor, allowing infinite gear ratios. Its purpose is to maintain manifold pressure for the radial engine at altitude.

The generator provides current to a high-frequency inverter and high voltage step-up transformer, which in turn drive a magnetron that ionizes the bypass air into plasma, increasing thrust.

The inner nacelle serves several functions, guiding cooling air from the ducted fan around the radial engine, housing intercoolers for the supercharged intake air, and oil coolers for engine oil.

Red is exhaust flow, blue is intake airflow, and orange is plasma flow.

The image was made from a cutaway drawing (not mine) of the Wright R-3350 radial engine super-imposed over a cutaway drawing (not mine) of the Pratt and Whitney PW1000G high-bypass turbofan. The idea for the magnetron plasma thruster came from real research (not mine) into air-breathing plasma thrusters.


StrawberryDaquiri
@StrawberryDaquiri
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v-raze
@v-raze

As a former aircraft maintenance tech, I don't know whether I really love or really hate this, but it's definitely at least one of those two emotions



tormod
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v-raze
@v-raze

Bumping this again, since Tormod lost his job today. Feel free to share if you know anyone that might have leads on openings. Besides his career as a systems architect working with Windows and MacOS, he's also well-versed in Powershell scripting, has been rapidly learning to develop in C#, and has good experience serving as a team lead in past roles.