On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Howard Winter wrote:

> Peter,
>
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:10:39 +0300 (IDT), Peter wrote:
>
>> On the other hand, imho, if some trick could be devised to inject
>> superheated water into the cylinder of a small engine, maybe compress it
>> further under a gas cushion (air, nitrogen), and trigger nucleation at
>> TDC, and repeat the process in a repeatable and stable way, then
>> something might come of it.
>
> I don't quite follow what you mean here, but it sounds awfully like 
> Newcomen's atmospheric steam engine!

No. Superheated water is liquid. It flashes into steam when triggered, 
f.ex. chemically. I do not know how this can be done in a cylinder but 
there should be a way. This would not require heating the cylinder !

Peter
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