[NewCandle] Physical Methods Of Water
Jones Beene
jonesb9 at pacbell.net
Sun Jan 21 23:35:24 EST 2007
Keith
> but at the end of the day, you're still struggling to get enough out to make it competitive with the
traditional stuff ...
Right. Unless CF can be made robust without Pd (perhaps with Ni or Ti) then it is almost hopeless to commercialize, except maybe for aerospace, or submarines, tanks and other high value uses etc (Jed Rothwell's protestations to the contrary)
Let me explain in a little more detail why I think that peroxide can be bootstrapped into a self-powering commercial energy system IF there is any OU to be found in an arc discharge.
With peroxide, which is potentially so very cheap to make in bulk, assuming that a catalyst
can be produced which is self-rejuvenating in situ with modest extra energy input - then there is the one major unknown - which has been on the horizon for a decade, and which if found to be in keeping with published results, would make the whole hybridized system very attractive for home power and automotive fuel - that is the Graneau "cold fog" Arc discharge.
However, we are crossing over into the realm of overunity. Speculation Alert. Not that I really need to add that caveat.
Do you believe the Graneau arc results of COP --> ~2 ?
I have reasons to believe them based on the EVO phenomena - or possibly even the hydrino (or both) ... and on natural weather phenomena.
The fact that Richard Hull has pretty much verified the discharge anomaly is encouraging, and the fact that Shoulders EVOs may be involved provides the basis for a proto-theory of operation. Hull is one of the more careful alternative energy experimenters out there. And Ken Shoulder's is
equally trustworthy and competent.
Here is the further thing they may not yet see, as far as how to best implment or apply that Arc discharge finding - if it is indeed real. If ... you can get the same kind of anomaly using HOOH that Graneau gets with water mist, and there is not much reason to think otherwise (if it is an EVO thing) - *plus* you get the normal 800-1 expansion of the liquid-to-gas phase transition of peroxide as it turns to steam and O2, following a Graneau-type discharge (you do not get much real steam with a water mist) - then it really makes the energy balance look rather favorable for peroxide to become a preferred route or "vehicle" to achieve "free-energy" via the arc discharge - and the best way to utilize the EVO phenomenon (if that is the basis of the effect).
Yes. I know this is a House-of-Cards... which can easily tumble down, but bear with me till you see the big picture.
Here is the bottom line. For MGP (45% enrichment peroxide) the heat energy inherent there is a factor of
thirty times less than gasoline, gallon-to-gallon - which sounds hopeless - except that the monopropellant expansion ratio changes everything, since you can spin a small turbine with no need whatever to compress air first- which is where all the losses go with petrol conversion. And it makes for a very cheap engine, as the heat produced will never get too great even though the effective pressure is very high. The electrodes are the biggest worry (to wear quickly)
If something in the arc discharge, like EVOs (or hydrinos - remember that O is a hydrino catalyst) can give it double the heat - as the experiments show - on top of the normal explosion of flash steam, which is already at 3-1 advantage since it is a monopropellant, then the resultant 6-1 comparative ratio of conversion efficiency (compared to gasoline in an ICE) drops the deficit from a thirty-one ratio of *effective energy* all the way down to a 5-1 deficit. Still of course, you will need 5 gallons of MGP to replace every gallon of gas. Not a problem <g> he sez.
MGP
can be made for an out-of-pocket expense equivalent to about one kWhr per gallon produced - which is ostensibly 10 cents to ConEd or one of the other Cons, but not really as it just becomes parasitic drain --if --- the Graneau effect is real.
We have actually done this for extended runs (made HOOH using one kWhr net input). As you note, the catalyst tends to degrade over time, but we have encouraging results with a new one, raising hope that this is solvable so that even 100% of grid power used can be recycled from the turbine itself instead of bought - so that the whole thing is operating without much operating costs.
The five gallons per hour HOOH will arguably produce as much net torque as a gallon of gasoline, burned in an ICE - so this system portends to be a major commercial success if the details/bugs can be worked out. Of course, I am presenting the best-case scenario - but based on extending real short-term results, and a personal belief that the
Graneau discharge is OU (which we have NOT incorporated yet).
Based upon analysis of the peroxide engines, going back to torpedos in WWll - it is clear that they are not Carnot limited, and not even heat engines per se, but more akin to a compressed air engine, and the efficiency based on normal "heat energy converted into torque" if you just look at that factor - is close to 100% conversion. I don't want to argue all this now - as I have a long document getting ready for eventual publication - and it will document those details.
Anyway - it is my contention now that if all these unknowns pan-out:
1) the proper catalyst at a decent price (self-regenerating in situ - perhaps shuttled (alternated) back and forth using additional parasitic electrical input to regenerate)
2) the Graneau effect (EVO effect)
3) the ability to recycle the oxygen from the exhaust, so that little new O2 is needed in a closed-cycle system (no problem
there)
4) electrodes for the discharge that can be resurfaced as part of an automatic maintenance system
Then this could be a viable system for home power because that turbine which is burning 5 gallons per hour of HOOH is putting out the equivalent of maybe 30 kWhr electrical. Even if one must recycle 80% of that electrical output back into the Graneau arc discharge - and into making more HOOH, nevertheless one has essentially eliminated most out-of pocket costs and there is nothing exotic in the equipment.
I hope this has conveyed some of the reason I am more excited about this than anything else on alternative energy scene right now. But if you want to know what the "real" source of excess energy is (besides some ambient heat) - for now it will have to be something vague with Dirac's name thrown in there for good measure. But I have a feeling that the very same general method will be shown to be active in Nature on occasion: the hurricane. About 30% of the net energy of a hurricane appears to be "excess" and if you see one from high altitude - the swirl is ringed with continuous violent high altitude lightning.
Jones
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