[Stoves] Re Alexis Belonio article

[Peter Verhaart]

Dear Crispin,

I am sure steam does not decompose into Hydrogen and Oxygen. One thing 
steam (or any other inert gas) can do is impart momentum and so force 
the mixture to flow to where you want it to go. In other cases steam can 
increase the volume of the mixture and so present a larger surface area 
to enable smokeless burning. This only works with rich volatiles of course.
As to Hydrogen IC (internal combustion) engines. Boloney!
Theoretically to produce Hydrogen by electrolysis (the most efficient 
way from an energy viewpoint) of water requires the same amount of 
energy that is released upon burning the Hydrogen. In practice it 
requires more due to resistance. Burning Hydrogen or any other fuel in 
an IC engine will produce an efficiency of 40 % in the largest engines, 
much more likely 25 % in reasonably sized engines.
The car would run much further if the batteries powered electric motors 
directly.
Bombarding the electrolysis cell with radio waves, if it worked (which I 
don't believe) would in the best case scenario lessen the electrolysis 
energy by the energy input of the radio waves.


Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
> Dear Friends of Science
>
>   
>>> Meyers was proven to be one of the biggest scam artists on the planet.
>>> Please do not be taken in by any of his work.
>>>       
>
>   
>> Now, now, Meyers has many contenders for this "honor", with people
>> like Daniel Dingel who claimed to be a NASA engineer but didn't know
>> what an explosion was.