----- Original Message -----
From: "Jed Rothwell"
It would not be expensive according to my calculations -- see
below. The energy cost works out to ~$3.39 per gallon of gasline
equivalent. Perhaps the cost of capital equipment would add
significantly to that.
Indeed it would add a significant amount. That is exactly why the
GE figure of $3/kg which includes not only capital equipment and
overhead but also all other expenses and profit MUST be the result
of at least double the yield (or more) compared to the normal
efficiency of electrolysis.
IOW the GE figure of $3 is apparently a wholesale price to the
dealer (comparable to the gasoline wholesale price which is now
~$1.75). When you use 'just' the energy-cost of $3.39, you are not
comparing apples to apples.
Of course, GE has not admitted anything remotely like OU - but
anyone can run the numbers and see that they MUST have something
of extraordinary efficiency. Consequently, the GE process could
very likely be overunity, it would seem, and there have been
rumors of this for some time. Before anything from the private
sector (non-military) gets to the White House, it is often widely
rumored elsewhere.
And given the similarity to Thermacore (now Modine) prior art,
which is now in the public domain, GE would still not want this
"history" widely known, if it were accurate. Inasmuch as GE is a
company which does not need either outside investment or
publicity - they will probably have factories built before they
acknowledge anything which would motivate competitors - or former
inventors. The only thing GE does not have as a resource can be
called "agility" and they do not want to let a smaller, more agile
company or inventor to step in and patent some minor improvement,
which could outflank whatever it is that they do have. Certainly
the addition of Noryl to the Thermacore patent is itself
patentable - otherwise you might not have heard anything from them
at all.
At least that is one 'take' on the current situation, and everyone
expects more of this story to come out soon. Most likely, Dubya
was not 'blowing smoke' on his past references to energy
breakthroughs.
Jones
- Re: Hydrogen from electrolysis versus gasoline Jones Beene
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