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Cleansing fire

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  • David Jones

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Daedalus's ground-effect ramjet, or gramjet, was invented to fly low over a flat track, compressing the air in front of it, heating it underneath with burners, and gaining thrust from exhaust gases expanding against the upward-sloping rear surface. He now wants to run them over water, to clean up oil slicks: the gramjet would burn some of the oil and oxidize some of the rest, and the detergents thus created would disperse the remaining oil to leave a perfectly clean wake. A thick enough slick might even provide enough fuel for the gramjet to run for free.

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  • David Jones, 1998. "Cleansing fire," Nature, Nature, vol. 392(6677), pages 662-662, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:392:y:1998:i:6677:d:10.1038_33564
    DOI: 10.1038/33564
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