Steam at work by weesel
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This is an unusual feature. The steam turbine room has a walkway around it with observation windows for the benefit of curious passengers.
OK, think back to TITANIC or other movie showing massive reciprocating engines and then compare that memory with this. Night and day. This is compact, relatively quiet, enclosed, and comparatively vibrationless. Still hot at 120 degrees or so, but you don't see stokers shoveling coal, or wipers and oilers running around servicing the machinery. Yet all that work IS being done mechanically and the coal has been replaced by the reactor fuel.
(For the life of me, I'd hate to imagine coaling ship... especially with that white paint up there.)
Definitely progress as far as propulsion machinery. So much so, that it's become a spectator sport of sorts. Watching the turbine casings must have been like watching paint dry. No wonder there's a bar on board. Oh yes, I just learned that the strange décor behind the bar is actually a wine rack.
Enjoy; thanks for viewing.
Comments (2)
Relatively quiet, is 'relative'. The steam and the turbines make loud wining noise, i remember the tour i got in an active nuclear power plant.
Still seems like hard work to me.