Originally posted by Rara: Paul, you are still missing the point between continously compressing a given amount of air, and compressing a continuous flow. It sounds like its the same thing, but the difference is huge. If you don't believe me, try it.
If you think I've got it wrong, show me where with math.
I think you're more confused than me on this point... come on, if you read through what I laid out, how can that even be STRETCHED to apply to "continuously compressing a given amount of air" as opposed to working on a flow? There's no way that stuff could even be used that way, without running it through a fancy integration first. What I stated applies only to flow. Compression as such (change of volume) is not even in there! Whether you're filling a tank, squirting through a nozzle, or pushing through a thick filter, the work done on the fluid will equal the flow rate times the back-pressure.
So to me, the criticism that I didn't consider flow sounds so backwards that I can only assume you didn't follow the reasoning at all. If anything, a valid criticism would be completely opposite: that I considered only flow and disregarded actual compression.
