Arthur, have you by any chance come across a news report about H2N-Gen
modules, (short for Hydrogen Generating Module)? This is an achievement of a
Canadian, Joe Williams Sr., along with his company Innovative Hydrogen
Solutions. The H2N increases burn efficiency of fuel , producing a more
complete burn, greatly increasing fuel efficiency and reducing fuel consumption
by 10-40%--and pollutants by up to 100%.
Can West News Services William Marsden reported the following:
Basically, the H2N-Gen contains a small reservoir of distilled
water and other chemicals, such as potassium hydroxide. A current is run from
the car battery through the liquid. This process of electrolysis creates
hydrogen and oxygen that are then fed into the engine's intake manifold where
they mix with fuel vapours. Adding hydrogen to a combustion chamber causes a
cleaner burn. The challenge has always been to find a way to get hydrogen into
the combustion chamber safely, reliably and in a cost-effective way.
Williams claims he has achieved this. H2N-Gen, he said, produces a
more complete burn, greatly increases efficiency and reducing fuel consumption
by 10-40 percent--and pollutants up to 100 percent.
Most internal combustion engines operate at about 35%
efficiency--which means 65% of the fuel either turns to carbon, corroding the
engine, or goes out to the exhaust pipe as greenhouse gases.
The H2N-Gen increases burn efficiency to at least per cent,
Williams says.
The only thing the vehicle owner has to do is refill the unit with
distilled water once every 80 hours of engine use. Tests show the unit should
last at least ten years, Williams said.
It can be attached to any kind of internal combustion engine:
diesel, gasoline, propane/natural gas.
Also, because the H2N-Gen manufactures only enough hydrogen to
feed the engine at any given time, there is no dangerous onboard storage of
hydrogen gas and no hydrogen under pressure.
Williams said his product, if it works as well as he claims, will
serve as a bridge between the present and the time when the combustion engine
is relegated to the scrap heap of history.
The H2N-Gen recently went through third-party verification--known
as "proof of concept"--at Wardrop Engineering Inc. of Toronto', specialists in
product testing and development. The company built its own prototype, according
to William's design, and tested it against William's claims.
Wardrop liked the invention so much the company wants to become
an equity partner in William's company....
....Williams doesn't have to have ETV approval for his unit. But
he says that he is not going to market without it.
Williams doesn't want to make money just through selling H2N-Gen
units. He has his eye on getting a share of fuel savings. In other words, he
would hope to install the H2N-Gen unit in every Canadian National railway and
truck engine for free in return for a percentage of CN's fuel savings.
Further, he would hope to get his hands on carbon credits
promised by the Kyoto Protocol....predicted to be a multibillion-dollar
business as countries attempt to meet their 2012 obligations....
Well, sounds like he's on to something, at the very least. The last paragraph
is up for interpretation, but no doubt he's an unconventional entrepreneur.
BTW--Wardrop not listed on TSX.
Natalia
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----- Original Message -----
From: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: M.Blackmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 6:57 AM
Subject: RE: [Futurework] N.O. Love Canals & Secular Inclusion
| I have been told that a DC motor at lower speeds draws the power of a 100
watt bulb.
|
| There is a great push to legislate condensing furnaces here in Ontario. So
far one can still buy the more reliable "mid-efficiency" furnace.
|
| Agree that some of the older technologies were more robust: Consider the VW
Beetle. Or the Model A Ford. There was a time when minor repairs were just
that. Minor. Now the car has to hooked up to a diagnostic tool so that the
onboard computers can (perhaps) diagnose the problem.
|
|
| arthur
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of M.Blackmore
| Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:39 PM
| To: [email protected]
| Subject: RE: [Futurework] N.O. Love Canals & Secular Inclusion
|
|
| On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 00:19 +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:
| > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 12:04 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > > I had a brand new furnace installed
| > > this summer and don't know how prevalent the DC motor is.
| >
| Ditto. I'd never even thought to ask! In the UK, since February or March
| 1st (can't remember which) by law all new central heating boilers have
| to be condensing.
|
| This sounds like a good thing except for the intrusion of reality:
| a). load factoring on a condenser is relatively critical - they have to
| be on the edge to work properly. How many Joe Plumbers are going to be
| able to get precise radiator and heat loss calculations to size or
| throttle a boiler so precisely??
| b). Someone at a uni here (Loughborough?) did a lifecycle environmental
| cost of conventional high efficiency boilers and condensers. Condensers
| go wrong so often that any benefit of the extra 5-10% efficiency is
| wiped out by the fuel use of all the gas fitters running around the
| countryside repairing them - or as if often the case nowadays, simply
| ripping the entire installation off the wall and replacing them with new
| boilers every couple of years, given the costs of parts and the
| difficulty of getting components in and out of the construction.
|
| There are times when even old environmentalists despair... less
| efficient but durable and repairable machinery might have the long term
| edge in a lot of circumstances, guess I. The old Morris Minor car being
| a classic example of road transport in terms of its overall impact (for
| a motor car!)...
|
| Malcolm
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