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This isn't literally a bar bet. It is a serious question, and you really have answered it by saying "if you were to design an engine purely for torque, it would be a 'positive displacement' piston type." This tells me there is an inherent reason - based on physical principles not merely...
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Thanks for all the responses.
I admit, I'm still not entirely sure what the answer is. (If there is one.) I gather that larger steam turbines run more slowly because the larger diameters at high RPMs will produce excessive stress on the blade assemblies. So conversely I think this means...
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I think this might be getting into symantics. My point: if a) turbines (normally) run faster than piston engines and b) faster engines produce less torque per unit power then, by combining statements a) and b) you are saying that turbines (normally) produce less torque per unit power...
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I'm basically taking from what you are saying that turbines do generate less torque/horsepower than do reciprocating designs.
re last comment: I assumed that because power generation does not involve frequent accelerations of the mass that this was a less torque intensive application...
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I was told that there was an inherent torque advantage to using a piston design over a turbine design (in this case for steam). I said I doubted there was any theoretical reason why this would be true, it would all depend on the design of the engine. My argument was that most turbines in...