Got an email from an associate of many years looking for better ways to
store hydrogen gas and thought the findings might be of use.
I remember there is also a method of storing carbon in nanotubules and
even in a kind of mesh...supposed to be totally safe and capable of
storing tremendous volumes safely...they are either called nanotubules
or microtubules...I had something posted about it, I think twice...I did
a search on nanotubes using the keelynet search engine and found;
http://www.keelynet.com/energy/hydrocar.htm
Nelly Rodriguez and her team claim that their graphite nanofibres can
store up to three times their own weight in hydrogen under pressure at
room temperature--more than ten times as much as current storage media.
Rodriguez envisages the nanofibres packed into a cartridge containing
enough hydrogen to power an electric car for up to 8000 kilometres.
Spent cartridges could be exchanged for new ones and refilled.
AND from the messsages on the BBS, Norm Wootan had sent this;
New Energy News; March 1994,
article New Energy Focus From China.
"Will Coal and Oil become Obsolete?".
Researchers at Beijing University have converted water to hydrogen using
NEODYMIUM, a rare earth as a catalyst. Sunlight was used as the trigger
causing the dissiasioation to occur in the presence of the neodymium
catalyst.
Independent research by a local (not to be named) researcher has
verified that short wave length (160 nm) ultraviolet light will split
very large volumes of water vapor (steam) into hydrogen and oxygen
components very efficiently at very low power comsumption.
When ultraviolet light (10000 X the intensity received from the sun
(after penetration of the ozone filtering of the athmosphere) comes into
contact with water vapor (steam) in the presence of the catalyst, very
large volumes of hydrogen are produced - at un-believable low power
consumption levels.
HHHHMMMMM, Let's assume that we put a heat muff on the exhaust manifold
of your old car and flash off water vapor to steam and pass same through
a quartz reactor chamber containing the neodymium catalyst and intense
short wave length ultraviolet light, resulting in the production of
BROWN'S GAS to be inducted into the engine alomg with normally aspirated
air to produce power.
All you need is a small supply of any starting fuel to bring system up
to temperature then switch over to you tank of water. Jerry, sounds
like your GARRETT CARB has some promise yet. Why not incorporate all
the above ideas into the GARRETT CARB. It would make a very efficient
and compact hydrogen generator that would make all the hydrogen you
would need to power any engine no matter what size it was. Just some
pregnant ideas for you armchair researchers to contemplate.
This stuff is very real so get on the stick and start building
prototypes. You may ask, "where do I find short wave length ultraviolet
light sources". Well anyone will tell you that a mercury quartz tube
will emit different wavelengths light dependent on level of evacuation.
If you draw a "HARD" vacuum on a tube it will go all the waydown to X
ray emmision which is not desirable for obvious reasons. Be carefull
here, for we don't advocate anyone losing all there hair and dying from
radiation poisioning. Use common sense when playing with short
wavelength ultraviolet and never NEVER look at an operating lamp without
proper eye protection.
Extreme retina damage will occur - very rapidly. Anyone that does not
believe that new sources of energy are lurking around the corner needs
their heads examined for the presence of a working brain. More later.
NORM
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