[Gasification] Re: [Stoves] Water fuel?

[Dries Vansteenkiste]

A few days ago, GuyW posted a video-link on the stoves website (perhaps better on gasification-list?) concerning a "new" fuel invented by a Mr. Klein, apparently produced through an electrolytical process, with demonstration of its use in a welding burner and in a car. The so called HHO gas is said to have different structure and properties than water (H2O), and to have a much higher calorific value than H2...

At first, this seemed to me like a hoax or a huge scam in the making, but it still made me curious.

One can purchase this "machine" that produces this HHO-gas for about 7000 US$....
The structural properties and features of HHO-gas have been "interpreted" or "explained" by an Italian-American Professor, named Ruggero Santilli, in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 31 (2006), 1113 -1128: "A new gaseous and combustible form of water"
(Institute for Basic Research, P.O.Box 1577, Palm Harbor, FL 34682, USA)
It appears this is a peer-reviewed scientific journal
Prof. Santilli doesn't seem to lack any scientific credentials, an understatement if one accepts everything listed in his cv (at http://www.i-b-r.org/Ruggero-Maria-Santilli.htm)

In contrast with the above, the following website seems to indicate that this is not something new: 
http://www.pureenergysystems.com/events/conferences/2004/teslatech_SLC/LarryOja/BrownsGas.htm
This is just a common duct electrolytic oxy-hydrogen. The mixture consists of diatomic hydrogen, diatomic oxygen and water vapor. The flame is a unique method for transmitting electrical energy directly into the atomic structure of materials, producing effects often unobtainable by any other means.
Is this HHO or "water fuel" the same thing as "Brown's Gas" or "electrolytic oxyhydrogen"?
(see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%27s_gas)

Dries

D. Vansteenkiste
University of Ghent
Gent, Belgium

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GuyW" <guyiii at cox.net>
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Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 1:44 AM
Subject: [Stoves] Water fuel?


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