[Gasification] Re: [Stoves] Water fuel?

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:59:37 +0200, Dries wrote in message 
<00c501c6948a$e98e69a0$53c1c19d at UGent.be>:

> 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,

..it is.

> 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>
> To: <stoves at listserv.repp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 1:44 AM
> Subject: [Stoves] Water fuel?
> 
> 
> > http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/06/waterfuel.html

..I get a wee bit confused here, what or who are you trying to
discredit?   And for the record, my own academic credentials goes
"just slightly" beyond those  of Wilbur and Orville Wright.  ;o)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.