[AR] Mills Fuel Experiment
- From: James Bowery <jabowery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:57:16 -0500
For those willing to entertain a speculative fuel -- one which has a
potential exhaust velocity (specific energy) of tens of km/s:
Reading H2O-Based Solid Fuel Power Source Based on the Catalysis of H by
HOH Catalyst
<http://www.blacklightpower.com/wp-content/uploads/papers/SunCellPaper.pdf> and
thinking about what might constitute a relatively simple and inexpensive
qualitative demonstration, it occurs to me that if (as is indicated by
Table 1) titanium is acting as a Mills catalyst, a pure Ti+H system based
on atomic hydrogen welding (AHW) may be worth a try for the following
reasons:
- In AHW, the shielding gas is hydrogen.
- The tungsten electrodes could be replaced by titanium electrodes
feeding in at a higher rate.
- Rather than nano-titanium the catalytic surface is vaporized titanium
at 3,287°C -- a temperature readily achievable by AHW.
- Being shielded from oxygen by the hydrogen flow, titanium oxidation is
avoided thereby avoiding a major confounding process and variable.
- The power into the AHW apparatus therefore takes two easily meterable
forms:
- electric power from the wall and
- hydrogen gas
- The power out of the AHW apparatus should be dominated by light, which
is also easily meterable.
- Finally, and perhaps most decisively, the peak temperature should
exceed that achievable by AHW.
Further on in the same paper, Figure 10 may indicate a superior fuel
mixture of:
50 mg NH4NO3 + KOH + KCl (2:1:1 wt.) + 15 mg H2O
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