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Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fu...
Iron powder probably wouldnt work in an internal combustion engine - wear on engine components would be too high.
Instead it works well I. Big open furnaces where you extract the energy via superheated steam.
eximius
on Nov 5, 2020
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And it would be difficult to 'aerosolize' the powder injection into the combustion chamber and all sorts of problems. It would take a fundamentally different design. But it's still a fun thought :)
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Instead it works well I. Big open furnaces where you extract the energy via superheated steam.