- Original Message
From: R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts,
Another link..
http://www.nextenergynews.com/
Richard
Way cool site for the inventive mind and those seeking alternatives to
conventional methods !
Here is one such example of a product announcement (actual availability
unknown) which has all kinds of potential synergy in alternative energy.
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news3.17a.html
Metal Foam ... presumably this is a bit like taking steel wool to the next
level.
Following the recent update on the Kanzius method of RF irradiation of
salt-water, yielding H2, any number of potential variations on that basic theme
have come to mind allways looking for possible synergy.
One such potential hybrid - alluded to earlier, would combine both the normal
DC electrolysis of salt-water, presumably at lower than normal voltage, but in
a cell which is simultaneously pumped with RF.
A major goal of any kind of ultra efficient electrolysis might involve
maximizing HOOH at the anode, instead of O2. The Kanzius method might
facilitate this- and might be itself facilitated (boosted) if there was an
imposed electric field, in addition to the near field of the salt ions which
are being jiggled.
This would be under the unproved assumption that at very low voltage, perhaps
well under one volt, peroxide and H2 can be formed at the same Faradaic rate as
in H2 and O2 in a normal cell. Most experts in electrochemistry firmly believe
that goal this is not achievable - since, in its ultimate form, it would seem
to violate the LoT.
That is not necessarily the case, if the process can remove ambient heat.
But here again the balance which would be demanded - of adding energy in the
form of both RF and DC and at the same time actively removing heat from an
operating cell at a rather high rate, seems equally insurmountable to most
experts. The current which flows in such a cell which would normally produce
heat, instead removes it- and as such falls under that nebulous terminology of
cold electricity. There is some reason to believe, however, that so-called
displacement current can be engineered to remove heat and as such can be
identified as cold.
Even though they are 'probably' correct ... the possibility is worth exploring
IMHO. Fortunately few of that mentality frequent this forum or they would jump
on this suggestion with merciless vengence.
Jones
BTW: The inimitable James Clerk Maxwell invented the concept of displacement
current, dD/dt, in order to make Ampère's law consistent with conservation of
charge and other small details which prop up the LoT. His original
interpretation was as a real movement of charge, but with correspondence to
dipole charges in the aether.
Although the geniuses who followed Maxwell have abandoned the aether as a
fiction, this original interpretation may be more valid than they ever
imagined.
That is: as soon as some uneducated inventor, who doesn't know better, can
demonstrate a robust cell which both produces hydrogen at impossible rates
and also removes ambient heat to retain thermodynamic neutrality- we will be
left with the only option to return to Maxwell while redefining aether to
accommodate a certain kind of nano-lever which is now known as the Casimir
force.
