This is the World’s Fastest Kettle. That’s what Charles Burnett III calls his steam supercar, which will race at 270kph over the Mojave Desert this coming June. Yes, I can’t believe it either.
The 7.6-metre-long steam supercar has a theoretical speed of 270kph. It uses four 90Ah electric batteries for ignition, which fires up the gas to heat twelve boilers. The boilers—which have a whooping 3.2km of metal tubing inside—can heat 13.2 gallons of water (50 litres) per minute to a temperature of 752 degrees Fahrenheit (400ºC). The resulting vapour is injected into a 13,000rpm turbine at go time.
Burnett will try to beat the previous record—established at 205.446kph by American Fred Marriott in 1906—over the Mojave Desert in early June.
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