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Yes, somewhere well above three thousand psi was what I was thinking, and yeah, I guess that would be perpetual motion, which is why I disclaimered " outside practical consideration". What got me thinking about such an idea was refrigeration cycles. If conversion of water to steam could be confined to a single small chamber where steam could be directly injected into a cylinder, possibly at an ultrasupercritical state (hint) could you run into the same problem as monotube boilers hitting the proverbial wall of max output? If such a system were to designed for a high horsepower/load application with large variations in load ( locomotive?), would it make sense to design such a chamber unusually heavy, with very thick walls of excess material with the intent of this excess material providing a kind of "heat battery" to provide a temporary overcapacity to absorb sudden changes in load. What if this chamber were long and tapered towards its outlet and in the center of an annular heating chamber also long and tapered towards its outlet, and the escaping steam combined with the escaping combustion gases to greatly increase the firing rate of the outer chamber, fuel delivery controlled by pressure drop. What if several of these where placed on tangents around the circumference of a reaction type turbine?
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