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Energy Revolution: Right In My Own Backyard

By krkrbt in krkrbt's Diary
Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 03:50:55 PM EST
Tags: Prophecy, Free Energy, Energy, internal combustion, revolution, la resistance (all tags)

I guess it was about a year ago that I stopped in to visit my father. He was with a patient whom I knew. At one point in our conversation, the patient's mother rolled her eyes and said, "and my other son is back at the shop building a hydrogen generator for his truck."

Hmm? He's building a Joe Cell?? I knew her other son, as he'd helped me out with some basic machining a few months prior.

The other son had recently moved 30 miles away, and the gasoline tab for his daily commute was pissing him off. Apparently he'd done some experimenting with teh hydrogen 20, 25 years ago...


I raced over to the shop, and Fred showed me around. He was in the process of modifying two pieces of stainless steel tube (which were originally the same size). The outside of one tube was on the lathe being shaved down, and he'd already done similar work to the inside of the other. This was so one tube could be placed inside the other.

The tubes were placed in a container, which is filled with tap water. An alternating current at just the right frequency is applied to the tubes, and jiggles the water molecules into a gas. This form of water (HHO) is known as brown's gas.

I tried to stop in once-a-month, just to keep track of the progress. At one point his business partner's truck was running on a different prototype version - the one that had smaller pairs of tubes.

He was going to hold a demonstration in August, but then his business partner ran the prototype wrong, and it busted a crack in the plastic container. When I showed up at the shop that morning, they'd already pulled the cell from the truck. In that photo you can see the water tank, some of the electronics, and where the cell was formerly mounted.

More pictures from the disassembled Prototype #6 (?) are also available.

One of the most important parts of building a brown's gas generator is getting the electronics right. The first couple prototypes used a generic pulse width modulator from eBay, but they are now using more specialized & robust electronics. I can't find the announcement right now - perhaps when I get home I'll find the link again.

http://pesn.com/2011/01/29/9501754_Water_as_Fuel--Thoughts_on_Improving_Freddys_ Cell/

'Mom' says her son moved to Kentucky in November, is quite busy, and that they're working on putting the first 100 units together. All the latest updates are supposedly on the YouTube Channel, but I haven't watched those yet.

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There have been lots of other exciting energy developments in the past few months. I hope you all heard about the Italians' cold fusion system. A 1MW generator is supposedly under construction.

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Energy Revolution: Right In My Own Backyard | 11 comments (11 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
I successfully completed a table top cold fusion (3.00 / 6) (#1)
by Strom Thurmond on Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 04:13:54 PM EST

experiment last night at my apartment.

I AM TOTALLY SERIOUS.

So, Popular Science is stopping over next week and I will replicate.

VEGETARIAN: An Indian word meaning "lousy hunter"

That's what powered Jules Verne's Balloon (none / 0) (#2)
by claes on Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 04:33:31 PM EST

In "Five Weeks in a Balloon", so there's a bit of prior art there.

You had me going there.  Running a car off of hydrogen is fine, there's even a hydrogen fueling station somewhere in town.  It's electrolyzing it on the fly using engine power that I find just a little hard to take.

Anyhow, looks good.

Dept. of Homeland Security should regulate this (none / 0) (#3)
by United Fools on Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 04:40:52 PM EST

This is your backyard that we are talking about.

We are united, we are fools, and we are America!
i got yer brown gas right here (3.00 / 2) (#4)
by lostincali on Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 06:24:25 PM EST


"The least busy day [at McDonalds] is Monday, and then sales increase throughout the week, I guess as enthusiasm for life dwindles."

revolution is whats happening in arabia (none / 0) (#5)
by nateo on Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 06:38:45 PM EST

this is a fantasy.  totally different.

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so, am I reading that right? (none / 0) (#6)
by Morally Inflexible on Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 10:17:42 PM EST

Brown's gas contains the oxidizer?  so your buddy makes volitile gas with oxidizer  compresses it, sticks it in his truck and uses it instead of gasoline?  

That sounds pretty dangerous.   and kindof fun.  

One way this might "work" (none / 0) (#8)
by Pentashagon on Wed Feb 02, 2011 at 05:34:11 AM EST

Injecting hydrogen and oxygen into the cylinder is going to have basically the same effect as nitrous plus extra fuel; a little more power will be generated until the pressure in the tank lowers.  I don't know chemistry well enough to know if a gasoline + air + oxygen + hydrogen mixture burns any hotter, but obviously if they're reaching significantly higher cylinder temperatures the thermodynamic efficiency would increase slightly (as they melt their piston crowns).

Obviously all the "free net energy!!" is just bullshit, but it may be difficult to show a negative impact on efficiency in all configurations.

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