• Dkarma@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Some dude in India made one to spin his shawarma in like 400 ad wtf u talking about

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      10 months ago

      power requirements of spinning a shawarma and doing useful work is quite different. Would be very interested to learn more about this ancient indian steam engine if you gave some links. But if it’s anything like the ancient greek aeolipile that has real world measured efficiency of as low as 0.0128 (theoretically 1%), it isnt really useful