Actually, I think that a potato battery might just put us over the top on this
deal. :^)
Gary
Adam Bradley wrote:
> Gary,
>
> You're right! How could I expect it to work without a hand grenade and
> a pineapple? Of course, we need one of those Jacob's ladder thingies
> going 'zzzzzap' with a spark going up it.
>
> --- Gary McCormick <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com> wrote:
> > ...and that buys you what? Burning gasoline to produce electricity to
> > electrolyze water
> > into hydrogen and oxygen to burn? There are energy losses due to
> > inefficiencies all along
> > that chain. This is NOT a potential energy source for an automobile.
> > As for welding, if
> > you've got the electricity to use to electrolyze water into H and O,
> > use it to run an arc
> > welder instead.
> >
> > BTW - I got a laugh from the bit on one "Brown's Gas" website I
> > checked out about the
> > "reduced volume" of the Brown's Gas producing a vacuum implosion, and
> > the "extra available
> > atomic-level energy" that produces "'plasma-type temperatures" that
> > don't show up as heat.
> > HA! LOL, ROF LOL.
> >
> > Gary McCormick
> > "Trying to stop laughing, wiping the tears from my eyes..."
> > San Jose, CA
> >
> > Adam Bradley wrote:
> >
> > > What if you used a small gasoline engine - say 1600cc or 2000cc -
> > to
> > > run the electrolysis machine, then fed its hydrogen and water
> > directly
> > > into the "Brown's Gas implosion engine"?
> > >
> > > --- Gary McCormick <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com> wrote:
> > > > One can split water into its component hydrogen and oxygen atoms
> > by
> > > > electrolysis - but
> > > > don't go out and retrofit the ol' Roadster with a water tank and
> > a
> > > > generator just yet. I
> > > > think this can be confirmed by someone on the list who remembers
> > > > their Chem and Physics
> > > > better, but I have a feeling that you'd be running at a deficit
> > if
> > > > you tried to burn the
> > > > hydrogen and oxygen to run a generator to break the water into
> > > > hydrogen and oxygen to make
> > > > fuel for the engine - smacks of perpetual motion!
> > > >
> > > > Gary McCormick
> > > > San Jose, CA
> > > >
> > > > "C. Halsted" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I have read literature from a company that uses a process to
> > change
> > > > the
> > > > > molecular formula of water and it becomes combustible. they
> > even
> > > > use this
> > > > > process for welding and can do things like fuse glass rod to
> > brick,
> > > > etc. put
> > > > > "Brown's Gas" into a search engine and see what you come up
> > with.
> > > > >
> > > > > Craig Halsted
> > > > > roadsters and
> > > > >
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