[Bioconversion] Fireball Express!

[James Towell]

The orginal question about putting iron oxide into an engine may have 
been due to a recent article in the New Scientist which, if I 
remember correctly, used powdered boron which would oxidise in the 
cylinder.  The resulting oxide could be reduced later, but I can't 
remember how.  I think the article mentioned that powdered iron and 
other metals had been considered, but the study had recommended boron.

Anyway, boron and thermite are both way off the mark for 
bio-conversion.  The nearest to bio we've had in this discourse has 
been Kermit, but I don't suppose he would want to be converted.

Next subject!

-James

At 21:53 28/10/2006, you wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:31:25 -0400 (EDT), Jeff Davis wrote:
>
> >> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:26:39 +0100, AJH wrote:
> >>>They are very careful to keep everything
> >>>dry as any water in the weld dissociates and hydrogen.
> >>
> >> My error, I was interrupted whilst writing, I meant to say hydrogen
> >> then contaminates the weld.
> >
> >
> >Hence hydrogen embrittlement?
>
>Yes
>
> >
> >Can we use this method to fuel a stove?
>
>I cannot see how, it takes a metal that has been refined using a high
>grade energy source and burns it to produce far higher temperatures
>than a stove can use.
>
>AJH
>
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