[ExI] trust the fake science?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 6:42 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> Now if we imagine the pressure doubling inside the tank, the skin
> thickness must also double in order to keep the material stress constant.
> Make sense?
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> Now imagine keeping the pressure constant and doubling the tank radius.
> The volume of the tank increases by a factor of eight and the surface area
> of the tank increases by a factor of 4.  So we could just square/cube our
> way to being a hero, ja?
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> YeeeeeeahNo.  With those assumptions, when we double the radius of the
> tank with constant pressure inside, the thickness of the skin must also
> double.
>

Why so?  The pressure did not double.  The skin thickness resists pressure
per unit area.
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