--- Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > > John Steck: 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?
> R.S. I think Fred has a device that enriches O2 based upon some form of filtration. Fred is, to put it mildly, not yet sold on the potential of N2O as a fuel. He gets a laugh out of it, so to speak... but he is operating under the assumption that the 150 year old method of production using Ammonium Nitrate is the only way to get it: NH4NO3 + Heat ------> N2O + 2 H2O Very wasteful ... and I agree that the idea will not work unless a more direct catalytic method of production, using pressurized O2 and N2 from air can be found, allowing safe home production using a heat pump. That was pretty much the premise of the whole idea, and it was based on a recent conversation with a renowned radiochemist, who would probably not want his name mentioned in that regard, but he thinks that it is doable with a natural ionization source - like thorium oxide - and a zeolite catalyst. In the old graphite air cooled reactor at Oak Ridge - they got tons of N2O out the smokestack. One of many reasons that reactor was too toxic and eventually shut down (one of many reasons). This is not the kind of thing which will be found in a mainstream textbook. It is the "enabling technology" which is waiting to happen.... but "imagine the possibilities"... isn't that what we do on vortex? Jones
