I have a couple very mundane questions about this.
Grimer wrote:
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Quote from William Lyne's book "OCCULT ETHER PHYSICS:
Tesla's Hidden Space Propulsion System and the
Conspiracy to Conceal it"
By William Lyne
Second Revised Edition - Pages 84-88
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The atomic hydrogen reaction first came to my attention in 1964, when I was studying industrial
processes at Sam Houston State University, in Huntsville, Texas, the year after taking an
introductory course in college physics. While reviewing various welding processes in a textbook, my
eyes fixed on an older process called "atomic hydrogen welding". By that time, the
process was already considered "obsolete".
For sure?? I thought atomic hydrogen welding was still used, up to the
present day, when really hot arcs were needed. No?
To me, the process seemed valuable, not only because it produces such high temperatures---above
3400° F.---enough to melt tungsten---the highest temperatures producible by man---but is also
"self-shielding", and can be used to weld diverse metals, often without flux, with a
concentrated flame producing little heat distortion, when welding thin metal. In the process,
'normal' diatomic H2 is shot through an electric arc which dissociates it into "atomic"
hydrogen, H1. This atomic hydrogen recombines at the (welded) metal surface, producing the very
high heat. Though th!
e process interested me then, and always has, I have never seen an atomic hydrogen welding unit for sale, for the 31 years hence. Industry's obvious excuse for laying the valuable process aside was that it had been 'replaced' by 'better' processes, such as Heliarc, TIG, and MIG welding, though they rarely mention "plasma arc welding", which has also almost disappeared from the market. Since plasma arc welding is merely an extension of the atomic hydrogen process, using a specially redesigned torch, the 'mysterious' reasons are undoubtedly the same.
The process simmered in the inner recesses of my mind for a few years until 1976, when
I rekindled my interest in the process for possible use in welding stainless steel and
reducing and fusing platinum metal compounds, because hydrogen reduces such compounds
(which must also be shielded from oxygen) to metals. The atomic hydrogen process does not
rely upon the combustion of hydrogen with oxygen in the air, but upon the
"atomic" energy released when atomic hydrogen recombines to form the 'normal',
diatomic hydrogen.
Is this correct?
My understanding of atomic hydrogen torches was that they used hydrogen
_and_ oxygen, thus taking the hydrogen from monatomic state down to
water, rather than leaving it as (still very active) H2.
If not, why not? Is the flame so hot that it would disocciate water
(and thus make the reaction run the wrong way)? He quotes 3400F, which,
IIRC, is cool enough that hydrogen can still "burn" with oxygen -- it's
somewhere around 3000C that water breaks down, which is considerably
hotter than 3400F, of course.
