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Jerry W. Decker ( (no email) )
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I have built steam engines powered by hydroxy. I have had the idea to
use the vacuum-forming capabilities of hydroxy to let the atmosphere
expand in the cylinders of a rankin-cycle steam engine instead of
steam--but I have never built the machinery.

If you compress pure hydroxy--it forms water. No good.

If you inject the mixture into a cylinder and then close the intake
valve and continue to crank for 20 degrees or so--it expands the mixture
and sort of dries it out.

I detonate at about 20 to 45 degrees past tdc (top dead center of the
piston stroke) and I get a hell-of-a-blast-power-stroke. Because the
hydrogen goes off so fast, you don't need to have it "burn" for the
entire 180 degrees as in a gasoline or diesel engine.

I use the exhaust stroke open for 180 degrees. This sort of makes the
engine run like a two-stroke--modified.

When you start using water as fuel, you have to sort of throw out the
rule book. The rules change.

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