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A really odd refrigeration challange
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Brian Whatcott
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On 22 Aug 2004 03:08:27 GMT,
ospam (Stephen Baker)
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Brian says:
Famous aero design concept:
Simplicate and add lightness
True, except that boatbuilders' budgets usually don't allow for that much
weight reduction. Lost weight always costs about 10 times what it would have
cost to leave it there. And that has been true since the dugout....
Steve
The opportunity cost of weight is different afloat, I'd think. There
is a decrement in freeboard, I suppose, with its increment in skin
friction: but either the operating speed is low, so the friction is
modest; or the speed is high, and the excess weight is hauled out of
the wash on the plane, wouldn't you think?
Brian W
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