The Red Brick Times

To revive a previous discussion - the idea of using high-frequency energy (like microwaves) to split water into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel is still being bandied about. There are arguments that "big oil" and "big energy" are suppresssing the technology. A chemist from Australia (John Christie, Faculty, School of Chemistry, La Trobe University, Bundoora) nails the issue when he writes: "The real problem with producing hydrogen from water is not efficiency, but simply the total energy cost. "

A non-mainstream "garage-tinkerer" who claimed to have produced fuel from water at better than break-even was Stan Meyer, who died in March 1998 after eating at a restaurant. See Water fuel cell at Wikipedia for some pros and cons. He was secretive and paranoid about the details of his machinery, and supposedly, on his death, his house was "raided" and all of his critical stuff and records were spirited away. Even the truth of his death was disputed. One confirmation was published by E. F Mallove, the Editor in Chief of Infinite Energy Magazine and head of Cold Fusion Technology, Inc. Mallove was himself killed in May 2004, reportedly by crack addicts during a robbery, when he returned to his former neighborhood to clean up a house his family owned. Conspiricists rave freely about these events. No Polonium 209 isotopes (from 188 to 220) were detected in either case.

Here is a site that lists lots of real, apocryphal or hearsay methods to get hydrogen from water. Personally, my favorite method would have the ephemeral folk of fairy tales separating it with teeny little tweezers.
Posted 11:41 AM by Andy (5) comments

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Here you go Andy try some Ancient Gravitics

# posted by  A. O. : January 04, 2007 1:24 AM
 
Or maybe you need some deeper background on Implosion Technology

# posted by  A. O. : January 04, 2007 1:30 AM
 
Everybody Wing Chun tonight because Robert Patterson reports that "Wing Chun would prove to be an instrumental key in my comprehension of natural and environmental energies." Along with his apprenticeship in HVAC, and his learning "to read blueprints and schematics".

Also drink plenty of water because "The dynamics of flowing, GOOD healthy water is bristling with levitational and healing qualities." And you will learn to fly. Better yet - go ask a porpoise about flying using implosion technology.

# posted by  Andy : January 04, 2007 8:31 AM
 
I call this theThe Sky Whale

# posted by  A. O. : January 04, 2007 7:35 PM
 
Someone has done the theoretical aerodynamic analysis. The constant roller-coastering would turn me green, then orange, then I would jump out, without a parachute. Since we have lightweight composits, and better construction techniques than the Hindenburg, why not it with the propulsion tunnel right down the center axis and with enclosed ducted fans. Two counter-rotating props, with intake at the highest pressure point in the bow, and exhaust at the lowest pressure point in the stern. Actually, if you build it double-ended, it could reverse direction without turning around.

# posted by  Andy : January 04, 2007 8:43 PM
 
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