[AR] Re: Mills Fuel Experiment
- From: James Bowery <jabowery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 14:17:22 -0500
After looking into Atomic Hydrogen Welding technology, it appears less
available than I had hoped -- it having been superseded by other
technologies long ago. Moreover, even if one could lay one's hands on an
AHW rig, the maximum amps appear to be far below that required by the Mills
process documented in the linked article. To pursue this route would
likely require building a custom AHW rig.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:57 PM, James Bowery <jabowery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
Other related posts: