[Stoves] Re Alexis Belonio article

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Dean

dstill at epud.net wrote:
> Dear Kevin,
> 
> We have tested a Chinese stove that uses steam injected into the combustion
> chamber. The jets of steam create superior mixing which results in cleaner
> burning. It may be that the steam also makes hydrogen but I think that this is a
> side issue. It's the improved mixing without using electricity that seems to me
> to be the important result.

Very interesting!! Would you be able to configure a test where you used 
a jet of air and then a jet of steam for inducing turbulence, to see if 
the steam had any extra benefit?

Best wishes,

Kevin
> 
> All Best,
> 
> Dean
> 
> uoting Kevin Chisholm <kchisholm at ca.inter.net>:
> 
>> Dear Crispin
>>
>> Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
>>> Dear Kevin
>>>
>>> That is what separates frauds from people like Garth to are actually
>> doing 
>>> it properly.  What I found interesting was a consistent 'effect'
>> reported by 
>>> people for generating increased efficiency in hydrogen production.
>> Certainly, this is what good Science is all about... "doing the 
>> do-able". Good Science does not claim to have done the impossible.
>>> Garth is splitting the water electrically inside the engine, that's
>> all. 
>>> Now we have a general claim to be splitting water in a hot fire.  Is
>> that 
>>> real?
>> Certainly, splitting water in a hot fire, in the presence of carbon, is
>>
>> real!! However, I do not know if the temperature of a "hot fire" would,
>>
>> or would not, be sufficient to dissociate 2H2O into 2H2 and O2.
>>
>> I suspect that water reduction, or water dissociation, could have a 
>> positive effect on biomass combustion processes, by permitting the 
>> formation of intermediate compounds that would burn better, or more 
>> completely.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Kevin
>>> Thanks
>>> Crispin 
>>>
>>>
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