Sounds like a viable grass roots program to me. I am interested in learning more about the ins and outs of N2O production and magnetic enrichment. Anything you can point me to online?
I like your thinking on capitalizing on the wasted opportunity at night. I wonder if this nighttime production could be enough to take a typical home off-grid? If all you are doing is on-site decentralized power generation, energy density becomes a non-issue with regard to storage and transportation. Might not be a bad open source collaboration project for those on this list that are interested in possibly taking themselves off the grid, or at least reducing their dependence on it. Thoughts? -john -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: 'Painless' NRG for a Rational World In a "perfect world"... well, let's say a "rational world" which wants to give up a reliance on fossil fuels, and the eco-damage of such, yet still desires to have affordable personal automobile transportation (perhaps that goal is irrational in itself <g> )... and assuming that LENR cannot become an affordable choice, due to scale-up problems, inevitable electrode damage, too many Randi-bots, the high cost for palladium, or whatever. All of the grid electricity for this rational world is generated by some combination of wind, solar, nuclear and hydro - no carbon. This mix puts you in the predicament of having lots of under-utilized night-time capacity, especially if we encourage "rational" small scale nuclear (subcritical, natural-uranium-fueled) which is a matter of making this goal a national priority, as the technology is there. The solution to that excess night-time capacity is that: in addition to many vehicles being battery powered plug-ins - and getting their charge at night (with or without the 'bettery') - and this being the higher-priced option (batteries will always be comparatively expensive) then there is still a cheaper option... ...especially for colder climates in the northern US and Canada... which is this: At night you have a home heat-pump, which in addition to heating the house, also produces liquid N2O at the same time. IOW the energy used to make the N2O heats the house - cogeneration. One of them is effectively free- either the home heat or the transportation fuel. The low compression engine and catalytic converter assures that little NOx is released. This N2O is a low density fuel, so you need to produce a lot of it, maybe 20 gallons for a 100 mile commute - but as you are heating your house with the rejected-heat, which is used to make it, then the "fuel" can be essentially free. BTW it is low energy density, sure, but still much higher than compressed air or liquid air, as it does have inherent chemical energy in addition to the energy of expansion. The big IF... is this: if N2O can be made reliably in a home-sized reactor via the pressurized catalysis of air. You need a 2-1 ratio of gases instead of the natural 4-1 ratio- but air can be enriched magnetically due to the magnetic properties of the O2 component. No good reason why this wouldn't work... except ... for the assumption of a "rational" world, and the needed billions for R&D, now wasting away like oil-soaked sand in the middle East... ...what was that about a "rational world"? Jones
