Mwuahahahahaha!

[pasithea]

In the kitchen the other day, I had the most dangerous realization... A pressure cooker has a hose attachment on top of it. They just use a weight there and the pressure releases itself by being high enough to lift the weight but I could replace that weight with a hose and an in-line regulator and a release valve and then... I have a boiler for any steam engine I might desire!

Comments

[glych.livejournal.com]

A portable one at that.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

finally, a useful way to extract useful energy from a stove or electrical outlet!

[physicsguy.livejournal.com]

You have a devious mind.

[salia-chan.livejournal.com]

Now if you can just keep it from exploding!

...speaking of which, you saw that mythbusters bit with the water heater rocketing into the sky, right? It was so beautiful! ;.;

[gomezkitty.livejournal.com]

Yay Steampower!!!!!!!!

[ponyguy.livejournal.com]

Urgh! Good idea, but pressure cookers are only designed to hold about two atmospheres (typical steam power pressure is ten or more atmospheres). I heard once that the old steam guys would ignore the gauge and run them just at the point where the steam started escaping between the rivets. Hoo boy!

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Nah. Typical household cookers go to ~15psi. You're right though. It's not a huge amount of power and more pratically, I have an air compressor for my airbrush that I could use as a source of similar (and safer) energy. It just seemed like a fun idea.