Re: Brown's Gas (for real?)

From: BillK (bill@wkidston.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 17:02:51 MST

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    Eric Krieg has a big site on crackpots and conmen at
    http://www.phact.org/e/

    His debunking of Brown's Gas is at:
    http://www.phact.org/e/bgas.htm

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        Brown's Gas and Energy by Tom Napier

       So-called Brown's Gas is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gas
    prepared by electrolyzing water. Generators which prepare Brown's Gas
    are sold for welding. Brown's Gas has also been proposed as a fuel for
    internal combustion engines and as an input gas for fuel cells. Here I
    propose to examine the energetics of Brown's Gas and the practicality of
    these latter applications.
    <snip>
    There is nothing 'wonderful' or 'not fully understood' about the
    combustion characteristics of the stoichiometric mixture 2H2O2. The
    flame burns with a comparitively low 'specific heat' per unit volume
    making it impractical / uneconomical for most commercial ferrous metal
    working businesses. There is no way, that a hydroxy flame can compete in
    speed or labor with LPG or acetylene for oxyfuel gas cutting and most
    brazing applications.
    <snip>
    The bottom line is that we have put in about a kilowatt of electrical
    energy to get out under a third as much in mechanical energy.
    Considering that the efficiency of an electric motor would be over 85%
    there is no justification at all for using a Brown's Gas generator and
    an internal combustion engine. An electric motor would do better at
    less cost and with far greater reliability.
    <snip>
    It has also been proposed to use Brown's Gas in a fuel cell. Unless it
    is proposed to store the Brown's Gas, this is an inherently absurd idea.
    <snip>
    Thus the ratio of output electrical power to input electrical power
    would be roughly 42%. Operating such a system has no conceivable
    utility.
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    Sorry, no free energy here. ;-)

    BillK

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