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New Photos Added! We've added new photos of the Sea Bird at dry dock, pictures prior to clean up, and some pictures of the tesla turbine.Check out the new gallery
Kris Land a San Diego Based Technology Entrepreneur has entered into a purchase agreement to purchase the Sea Bird. The Sea Bird is a commercial fishing vessel, orginally created as an Army Ship. A brief history of the Sea Bird is as follows:
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2006 - Current Disposition, tuna long liner (fishing boat) Sea Bird out of San Diego, CA |
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1996 - Sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, for commercial service, June 11 |
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1995 - Struck from the Naval Register, April 4 |
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1994 - Ceremony in New Bedford |
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1971 - New Bedford (IX-308) served as a Torpedo Test Firing Vessel in the Puget Sound area |
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1963 - Reclassified Miscellaneous Unclassified, (IX-308) |
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1955 to 1963 - Used as a cargo supply ship for the Texas Towers, a network of advanced radar stations located off the Eastern Seaboard. In 1957, Capt. Sixto Mangual was commander of the AKL-17 and in 1961 it was rechristened the USNS New Bedford. The New Bedford, sailing out of State Pier, was keeping vigil when Texas Tower No. 4 collapsed off the New Jersey coast during a January 1961 nor'easter.
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1954 - The movie, Mister Roberts, was made on the USNS New Bedford (T-AKL-17)
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1950 - Acquired by the US Navy, July 1 and placed in service as USNS New Bedford (T-AKL-17) |
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1945 - Delivered to the US Army |
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1944 - Camano Class Light Cargo Ship Laid down for the US Army as FS-289 at Wheeler Shipbuilding, Whitestone, N.Y. |
Links to more news, information, and pictures of the history of the Seabird / New Bedford
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Mr. Land is looking forward to furthering the history of the Sea Bird by doing a conversion to efficient propos ion technologies that will make the Sea Bird an eco-friendly model for Fishing fleets from CA to world wide. In addition to fishing, the Sea Bird will be used for learning, exploration and adventure.

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Understanding Pyrocatalytic Cracking
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You are probably wondering by this time how you get such a clean burn from heavy waste products; the answer is really quite simple -- pyrocatalytic cracking. We use heat and the catalytic properties of metal to break long molecular chains of hydrocarbons into short chains.
| Looking at the burner system photo, you'll see to the right of the burner a propane "starter subsystem". Propane is used to bring the system heat up sufficiently to "crack" the heavy fuel into gases, and is then shut down once the waste or renewable fuel cycle is operational.
To the left of the burner you'll see a typical automotive fuel injector being used to pulse narrow-duration shots of heavy liquid fuel into a "T" connector. Low pressure "carrier air" mixes with the heavy fuel and moves the mixture into the red-hot pyrocatalytic reactor chamber (vertical 1/2-inch tube) where the liquid-air mix changes to a gas-phase fuel. Small holes drilled into the far end of the gas-phase chamber act as gas modulation ports; the gas phase fuel burns as it exits these ports. The resultant flame (as mentioned earlier) is blue, white, and yellow; there is no smoke or even a hint of foul oil odor. |
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One of the key elements in controlling the quality of the burn is a pulse-modulation electronic fuel injector controller. Both frequency and pulse width must be tunable to produce the most efficient burn.
So here we have an ultra-clean burner capable of efficiently and odorlessly producing unlimited amounts of head from absolutely free-for-the-taking waste oil. From here we can produce sufficient steam to run a boundary layer or Tesla type turbine for home, commercial, or industrial use.
This same system can be used with renewable or growable oils, cellulose matter, biogas, or even solar-collector steam.
This is all part of a revolution taking place across the globe as more people wake up to the fact that cheap oil reserves are dwindling, demand for electrical and transportation power is rapidly escalating, and the global ecology is breaking down.
http://phoenixnavigation.com/ptbc/articles/ptbc18.htm
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