What is it?
A cold war project that never quite made it off the ground.
What is the contraption in the picture at the top of the page?
Revealed March 23, 2014:
Don Eggleston got it right when he wrote, “Looks like one of the one reactor powered jet engines.” Don and I served in M Division together on the USS Casimir Pulaski, SSBN633, blue crew.
see more at Atomic powered bomber
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A desalination plant.
A space ship! 😉
Looks like one of the one reactor powered jet engines.
Don, You got it right. Why am I not surprised? I took the picture when were camping out at Arco in 2011.
Hi Mike – a wild west sausage machine …
Crumbs – no idea …. funny that!
Cheers Hilary
Definitely shades of Mad Max for sure. I’m sitting here pretty much clueless however as to its purpose. If it were from Mad Max I would guess some sort of mini oil refinery but you probably wouldn’t make it that easy. So… I’m going with “automatic file cabinet drawer opener”!
Don Eggleston got it right. I’ve updated the answer in the original post and have a link to the new post with detailed information in the link below this comment.