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... world's first hydrogen reactor for reduction of unlimited hydrogen ...
Kochari ^ | July 22, so14 | Solar Hydrogen Trends

Posted on 08/25/2014 10:16:16 PM PDT by AZLiberty

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To: Slings and Arrows

I didn’t see where they claimed to have perfected cold fusion. What I read indicated that they had figured out how to use solar energy to break the H2O covalent bonds which seems reasonable.


21 posted on 08/25/2014 11:14:02 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: Greysard
indicating that the process of transmutation of oxygen into hydrogen in the last test was more active.

Next up...transmuting lead to gold.....

22 posted on 08/25/2014 11:14:28 PM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: AZLiberty

Scam alert.


23 posted on 08/25/2014 11:16:16 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

It seems like biofuel is inadequate to meet the ever growing energy demands of our planet. The hydrogen locked up in water has always seemed like the logical energy source for the future. IMHO.


24 posted on 08/25/2014 11:22:59 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: RC one
They mention cold fusion here:

At the moment this is an absolute record for energy costs with “cold fusion” Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR). It outpaces all research centers, laboratories and universities involved in the hydrogen problem of (LENR) for 20-30 years

In retrospect, it looks like they were talking about someone else; the text isn't all that clear.

Back to the original issue: The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that you will always get less energy from burning hydrogen than it took to separate it from water; in effect, hydrogen becomes a battery. If these people have a way to use solar energy to economically power hydrogen separation, they'd probably be better of just selling the solar power. Sorry, but this whole thing reeks of scam.

25 posted on 08/25/2014 11:25:18 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
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To: RC one

Solar energy, or electrical energy is what you would use for a standard process of breaking the bonds, but they are claiming transmutation and their numbers are freaking off the chart in terms of production from a given amount of water.

When questioned about that they just lean on the transmutation and the LENR process.

That’s the problem..

If it’s true, and that is one huge IF. The process, no matter how it transmutes would be huge...

But that’s again the problem.

IMHO


27 posted on 08/25/2014 11:31:13 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: RC one

It takes at least as much energy to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen as is released when hydrogen and oxygen are recombined back into water (burned).

If it didn’t it would be perpetual motion.

It is as simple as that.


29 posted on 08/25/2014 11:36:09 PM PDT by DB
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To: AZLiberty
Konstantin Balakiryan

Everything I needed to know, right there.

No sale.

Put cheap H2 up for sale, I might buy it. I prefer it mixed with a little C. And maybe some O.

But this is more Russian BS.

/johnny

30 posted on 08/25/2014 11:37:34 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: RC one
We need only find an efficient way of gathering it, storing it, and using it.

Fossil fuels is the answer. Dead ancient foliage.

Nothing beats 'em. Ever. On price point or ease of use.

/johnny

31 posted on 08/25/2014 11:40:07 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: DB

On their website they say....

‘On input of 500 watts the mini reactor produces a output of 2,797 cu feet of hydrogen per hour. (electricity equivalent of 221.5 KWH at a cost of about $1.80)”


32 posted on 08/25/2014 11:40:55 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: JRandomFreeper

The planet is still making the stuff..


33 posted on 08/25/2014 11:42:40 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Octar
Anyone that remembers Tom Swift and his aeroplane is ancient and should just take some pills from obamacare.

Oh... wait..

I do have some Tom Swift books, printed on acid paper, that I'm trying to conserve. They belonged to my dad when he was a kid. I read them. Now I'm trying to keep them from rotting away.

/johnny

34 posted on 08/25/2014 11:43:17 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Cold Heat
I never thought it stopped. I supposed I was adding to it as my outhouse slipped under a continental shelf. Not that I'll live to see it.

/johnny

35 posted on 08/25/2014 11:45:23 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

LOL.....

Naw....not poop....plankton...


36 posted on 08/25/2014 11:50:56 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: RC one
What I read indicated that they had figured out how to use solar energy to break the H2O covalent bonds which seems reasonable.

Those would be hydrogen bonds. Using solar energy for splitting of water is not a new idea.

What is new here, however, is the idea of transmuting oxygen into hydrogen. Normally hydrogen is far more apt to go in the other direction, just as we saw it in explosions of hydrogen bombs. You'd need to apply some comparable energy to put the toothpaste back into the tube :-) Our Sun happily survives on simply fusing hydrogen into helium. Imagine the cost of splitting O into many H's :-) Humans can do some of such things, but only to individual atoms, and only on huge particle accelerators.

37 posted on 08/26/2014 12:02:17 AM PDT by Greysard
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To: DB

Not perpetual motion. The claim is it produces energy by breaking oxygen atoms into hydrogen atoms. They don’t claim that they can rebuild the oxygen atoms from the hydrogen without putting in at least as much energy.

If it works, it’s no more an instance of perpetual motion than is fission of uranium or plutonium.

The proof of this pudding will be in the eating — or in the reliable production of cheap energy. If their claims are true, then it’s way better than Rossi’s E-Cat (if his claims are true).


38 posted on 08/26/2014 12:07:10 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: Mastador1

This is a form of LENR, different from any described before. If the kind of LENR that Andrea Rossi and others have been talking about works, there’s no reason to believe Rossi’s is the only or the best kind of LENR. We’ll have to see.

Rossi says that his E-Cat is undergoing rigorous third-party testing right now.


39 posted on 08/26/2014 12:09:56 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: RC one
You missed the key phrase "Transmutation of oxygen into hydrogen" which is not a chemical process.
40 posted on 08/26/2014 12:12:33 AM PDT by FredZarguna (His first name is 'Unarmed,' and his given middle name is 'Teenager.')
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