Robin
If you want to convince us that there is free energy here, then
I
think you need to show a complete closed cycle of net exothermic
chemical reactions.
It's not that simple. And I am not saying that there is a net
free-energy exotherm for the complete biological process -
obviously there isn't or we would not need to eat. It takes energy
to get the reactants together and to remove the CO2, but
nevertheless it stands to reason that hydrogen peroxide decomposed
into water and oxygen,
H2O2 --> H2O + (1/2)O2
releases 26.04 kcal/mole, or 766 cal/g, or 1380 Btu/lb.
Then - this is essentially "free" once you have the reactants
together with the SOD. That may be splitting a semantic hair to
finely but hey, this is vortex, not Phys. Rev. A ...
*Plus* and very importantly (for use in an automobile) you get an
ROS oxygen radical which normally requires half of 58 kcal/mol,
which is the strength of the O-O bond.
But the net benefit of HOOH as a liquid oxidant, compared to air
is
not just the net of 2500 Btu/lb - since air comes with the burden
of 4 times its own volume of inert nitrogen and needs to be
compressed 8-1 or more to burn properly.
Even using 50% HOOH -- which is probably safe in small quantities
(made 'on the fly') and does not need to be compressed in order to
burn, it is looking to me like the net benefit of peroxide for
equal torque delivered to an ICE from gas expansion following
combustion, is this: peroxide reduces gasoline requirements by
half compared to using air (yes Fred, that is just a guess <g>)
but anyway, the potential seems to be there - to do this safely
and reduce fossil fuel consumption drastically.
Jones
BTW in the case of insect metabolism - which is rather miraculous
in such species as the Monarch butterfly - for instance - which
migrate for vast distances with little nutrient consumption -
there is a slight possibility that such is indeed a case of "free
energy" from this kind of free-peroxide process.
