How Do You Make Turbo Engines More Efficient? Just Add Water

Re:How Do You Make Turbo Engines More Efficient? Just Add Water by seansoutpost on Friday September 30, 2016 @10:46AM (#12612744)

Could the need to manually refill water periodically be replaced by a condenser that constantly pulled ambient moisture out of the air? The total amount of water they are talking about is not very much. This seems like it could be solved without constant topping off.

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Re:How Do You Make Turbo Engines More Efficient? Just Add Water by Jeema101 on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:20AM (#12612979)

Seems possible in theory, and a car's A/C system already does just this. They'd just have to collect the water that normally drains from the A/C evaporator.

Could be some issues with contamination though - you don't want dirty water being injected into an engine...

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Re:How Do You Make Turbo Engines More Efficient? Just Add Water by NegativeLatency on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:01AM (#12612841)

Not saying it's impossible, but there is much less water in the air at cruising altitude.

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Re:How Do You Make Turbo Engines More Efficient? Just Add Water by minikites on Friday September 30, 2016 @10:57AM (#12612803)

I'm no physicist but wouldn't you lose a bunch of energy running a condenser?

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Re:How Do You Make Turbo Engines More Efficient? Just Add Water by MOARDONGZPLZ on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:19AM (#12612972)

I remember this, and it seems similar. it condenses water at ground level with solar cells, refilling a water bottle:

http://www.jamesdysonaward.org/projects/fontus-2/

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Re:How Do You Make Turbo Engines More Efficient? Just Add Water by hidroto on Friday September 30, 2016 @10:53PM (#12616346)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvXnmBIO7o

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