Vehicle: Elevator: Power
Internal combustion elevator   (-2)  [vote for, against]
Shaft is the cylinder, Elevator is the piston

compress air at the bottom and inject gasoline and ignite. to get to the top quicker.
-- davidcreede, Aug 09 2003

Burnt Latke http://burntlatke.q...m/15cb-testday.html
What happens when combustion products cool down. [Freefall, Oct 04 2004]

Skys the limit.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 09 2003


Finger on "go" button, check around to see if there are any pregnant passengers, initiate countdown...
-- lurch, Aug 09 2003


Something for the evil bond-villain in all of us.
-- chud, Aug 09 2003


I quite like this - I feel there is a use for second-hand mattresses here. its always been a worry for me that old mattresses are good for nothing.

1st person to say mistresses gets a slap.

do hope my plurals are correct - my dictionary gives me no plurals for either

second thoughts, quite is inadequate - this is fun.
-- po, Aug 09 2003


except with phoenix, what goes down must go up <g>
-- po, Aug 09 2003


//second law of thermodynamics//

Don't all elevators go both up and down?
-- suctionpad, Aug 11 2003


Not if it's a one-way elevator.
-- snarfyguy, Aug 11 2003


[gnome] - are you absolutely sure about that? If so, good grief, Pioneer spacecraft are breaking the second law of thermodynamics.

I always thought they were "heat is work and work is heat" and "heat cannot of itself transfer from a cooler body to a hotter body".
-- PeterSilly, Aug 11 2003


Weeeeeeell, that is sort of like it but I cant help thinking that that is a bit 'old school thinking' [PeterSilly]
If you ask a friend if mine (who *is* an electrician) about any rule or principle, he generally says "What goes up must come down"
The point that I was trying to make was that there was no description of the 'coming down' bit
-- gnomethang, Aug 11 2003


Surely the downstroke could be controlled by restricting the outflow of the combustion products.

-->Bang! Elevator goes up

-->Hisssssss... Elevator goes down
-- suctionpad, Aug 11 2003


Actually, [gnome] it's Flanders and Swann thinking - that's entropy, man.
-- PeterSilly, Aug 11 2003


Go down via ratchet & brake.
BANG! top floor.
Kachunk kachunk kachunk kachunk next floor down.
Repeat until at bottom.
I think you could even make it work in a power outage.
-- lurch, Aug 11 2003


I won't tell you again.

nice one lurch.
-- po, Aug 11 2003


Funny thing about combusting gases: once they cool, they typically take up less volume than their initial components. It's the heat produced during combustion that causes the expansion. (link to come)
-- Freefall, Aug 11 2003


i had to delete the post with the enitrely false definition of the second law of thermodynamics. sorry but i can't stand misinformation
-- davidcreede, Aug 11 2003


buddha, <SLAP> that hurt me more than you sweetie.
-- po, Aug 11 2003


my pleasure <g>

//i had to delete the post with the enitrely false definition of the second law of thermodynamics. sorry but i can't stand misinformation// whats that all about?
-- po, Aug 11 2003


Someone tried to say that the second law of thermodynamics was "what goes up must come down" - sheesh!
-- PeterSilly, Aug 12 2003


Come on, everyone knows that the three laws of thermodynamics are:
1 - You can't win.
2 - You can't break even.
3 - You can't leave the game.
-- BigBrother, Aug 12 2003


That was me [Peter] and [davidcreede] - not entirely seriously I might add
-- gnomethang, Aug 12 2003


noted, and i appy polly loggy, but i can't stand running into other people who think that "what goes up must come down" is a "scientific thing". And ridding the world of that mental item is one of my personal crusades.
-- davidcreede, Aug 12 2003


..which, of course, is to be lauded. No Worries.
-- gnomethang, Aug 12 2003


Might be good to send things into space... or shoot aliens?
-- BennyS, Nov 16 2003



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