apparatus & Fire-ology firegeezer on 29 Dec 2007 10:45 am
Is There A Water-Turbine In Your Future?
WOLFHART WILLIMCZIK, physicist & inventor from East Germany and now living in Florida, developed a water-injected jet turbine for fire suppression. It has proven to be successful.
BASF is using them at some of their oil refinery facilities.
In Hungary, engineers built a large oil-well firefighting rig to use in the country’s many oil fields. They took an old Russian tank and removed the turret. Then they mounted two scrap jet engines from a Mig-21. Water is injected into the exhaust, throttle up, and…..
Watch the video to get a sense of the potential
power of this technology.
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on 31 Dec 2007 at 9:24 am 1.Fire Gear Cleaning Guy said …
WOW!!!!! That is awesome. Two of my favorite things, jets and firefighting come together!