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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] To be exact, the Nimitz and Enterprise carriers have steam turbines, too. The steam is just generated by fission reactions. What typical warships have is either gasoline-burning turbines (essentially, jet engines) or diesel engines, or then an "and/or" combination of these. If you see a ship with huge ventilation structures (like the Spruances or Ticonderogas), then the ship is probably turbine-powered; smaller chimneys probably signify diesel power, and lack of smoke is a good hint that there's a nuclear reactor onboard. Different propulsion systems and combinations have different pros and cons (cruise performance, top speed, noise)... Even if Scotty was giving a "damage report" on the Romulans, his analysis must be considered suspect, since the Romulans continued to evade the Enterprise even when the latter moved at warp speeds in a more or less straight course. Perhaps Scotty was simply mistaken, because the Romulans had shut down their warp drive and cooled it down? Then again, nobody chided him for his mistake when the Romulans began acting as if they were capable of warp (that is, evading the warping E). Did everybody from the outset ignore Scotty's rantings? Or did Scotty's phrase actually mean that the ship had an impulse-type powerplant for her warp drive (and didn't bother to mention that the Romulans had a warp drive since every idiot aboard would know that just by looking at her warp nacelles and from the fact that she was THERE)? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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