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Referring to this:her words, to produce one mole of H2 (2 grams) one uses two
for water.""Dr Andrija Puharich reportedly drove his motor home for hundreds
of thousands of miles around North America in the 1970s using only
water as fuel. At a mountain pass in Mexico, he collected snow
Chuck Britton wrote:
There have been cars driven on water reported previously.
The one's that actually perform as claimed use metallic
sodium or potassium in addition to the H2O.
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As a high school student, more than five decade ago, I saw a
demonstration in which a tiny bit of sodium was dropped into water
and reacted violently. But I did not know that sodium can be used
as an automobile fuel. Looking into a chemistry textbook now I see
that hydrogen is released from water by the following reaction:
2 Na + 2 H2O --> 2 NaOH + H2
In ot
moles of Na (46 grams). The heat of combustion of H2 is 495 kJ per md to figure out that a lot of nitrogen
ole (247.5 kJ per gram) while the heat of combustion of gasoline
is close to 50 kJ/gram. This shows that one gram of hydrogen
produces about five times as much heat as one gram of gasoline. It
also shows that one gram of sodium must be used to generate 5.39 kJ
of heat (released when hydrogen is burned). One kilogram of
gasoline (little more than one liter) will produce 500,000 kJ of
heat. How much sodium is needed to produce the same amount of heat?
The answer is 92.9 kilograms. (Feel free to replace the word heat
by thermal energy).
Suppose the distance covered by Pucharich was only 200,000 miles. A
car covering 20 miles per galon of gasoline would use 10,000
galones of that fuel. This is equivalent to 929,000 kilograms
(nearly 930 tons) of sodium. Note that NaOH is a dangerous
pollutant. It is not har
hydroxide would be produced during the trip. How was the NAOHnits #216 and #226 at
disposed of? How often was the vehicule “refueled” with sodium? A
question I am not asking has to do with energy needed extract 930
tons of sodium from NaCl.
Hydrogen cars of tomorrow are expected to be enviromentally
friendly. Production of hydrogen should also be environmentally
friendly. Getting hydrogen out of water with sodium does not
satisfy this condition. The iESi device for extraction of hydrogen
from water, on the other hand,
see: http://www.iESiUSA.com
is said to be not only environmentally friendly but energy
efficient as well. I do not think that such claim is valid. But I
will be happy to be wrong. Nothing will be more convincing than
long-lasting commercial success of their already existing devices,
and subsequent scientific papers explaining them. That topic, as
some of you probably know, is addressed in u
my cold fusion website:_______________________________________________
http://blake.montclair.edu/~kowalskil/cf/
I have no idea why one of the the iESi devices is referred to as a
cold fusion reactor. How do they know that nuclear cold fusion reacti
ons take place in the device?
Ludwik Kowalski
Let the perfect not be the enemy of the good.