Turbine-powered beer cooler

Quote: "A chap from New Zealand used his 1970 MGB-GT engine and with a little physics know-how, transformed it into a jet engine to, as he said, “burn up fuel very very quickly”."

Yeah, right. This I gotta see, a four cylinder piston engine converted to a jet. :rolleyes2:
 
I followed this contraption (or perhaps one exactly like it) a few years ago when it first hit the net... One thing that bothered me. The turbine engine (while cool in a hip sense) has nothing to do with the actual cooling mechanism.

He could have cooled the water just as well by opening the valve on the gas bottle. Isn't this just PV=nRT in action?

Now if the turbine engine was hooked to a reduction gear box to drive a compressor pump, that'd be something :-)
 
He should be a Bud Light real man of genius, like this one:

 
OffCenter said:
Quote: "A chap from New Zealand used his 1970 MGB-GT engine and with a little physics know-how, transformed it into a jet engine to, as he said, “burn up fuel very very quickly”."

Yeah, right. This I gotta see, a four cylinder piston engine converted to a jet. :rolleyes2:
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There was an early Italian "Jet" engine that used a recip to power the compressor section.
 
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