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From: Standing Bear
> "This ten-to-one ratio of comparative fuel usage is *actual and proven*
> beyond any doubt in this vehicle over 100,000 miles....The heat content of
> hydrogen is: 61,000 Btu/lb (141.86 kJ/g) The heat content of Gasoline, in
> contrast is: 20,360 Btu/lb (47.5 kJ/g)
> Here is the anomaly - In actual testing of these vehicles, using identical
> engines, automobiles and roads or testing tracks, etc at both BMW and Ford,
> the hydrogen powered vehicle will go about 10 time further per
> pound-equivalent of hydrogen fuel, compared to gasoline.
> S.B: Maybe a little of a 'Davis Mechanics" effect going on here... professor
> Davis at a Florida university who died ....shortly....after publishing a
> theory on this brought out the idea that a second derivative term added to
> the standard equation for force may be
showing itself. I have thought about this, and further postulate that not
only a second derivitave term, but a Taylor series of them may be really at
work:
F = m {a + a' +a'' +a'''.....[(d^n)a]/(dt^n)]
> There is a solution to this Taylor in most elementary Calculus books. I just
> did not memorize it thirty years ago when I took the course.
Thanks for this input, Col. ---
Yes - there is no doubt in my mind that the lighter molecule -hydrogen - or
especially as 'nascent hydrogen' in the first few milliseconds following
detonation - is able to somehow turn what would be normal acceleration into a
higher power-law - the so-called "jerk" or "jounce"... this is over-and-above
the advantages of more complete burn, which Robin mentioned yesterday, or the
higher gas pressure. In fact it is somewhat spectacular in its own way, as are
all exponential advantages, when compared to standard rates of increase.
We have alluded to the higher power laws of movement (above standard
acceleration) a number of times in the past on vortex, when the differences
between 'simple combustion' and the 'shock wave' of an explosion come into play
- to effectively multiply the heat energy which is available from a chemical
reaction into a force which far exceeds expectations and the normal effects of
Boyle's Law and the other thermodynamic constraints which are normally at play
in combustion. This is a different ball-game with H2 when acceleration is
magically turned into jerk! (no need to mention the Jamaican Bob-sledders, mon)
There are presently a cadre of otherwise intelligent and well-trained but
short-sighted scientists and engineers out-there, even on vortex, who
frequently comment to pooh-pooh the so-called "hydrogen economy" as being
"mostly hype" but of no special substance since most hydrogen now comes from
natural gas and so-on and so-firth - and... for the simple reason that they do
NOT understand this major point which is so critical that I might be inclined
to repeat this every time anyone puts-down the hydrogen economy:
This is NOT just about a substitute fuel !
...but it is also, and even more so - about a greatly enhanced *fuel conversion
process*
and the irony is this, coming from the opposite extreme of disinformation - the
hydrogen economy is also NOT about the fuel-cell.
The fuel cell is a needless waste of time and resources. It is overpriced and
under-performing in any net power situation! It is a red herring if there ever
was one.
Forget the fuel cell but focus on hydrogen when used in "shock wave" situation
where its *times-ten* advantage in higher atomic and molecular mobility is
cubed to become *times-100* so to speak...
The standard tried-and-true ICE is the key to this greatly enhanced *fuel
conversion process* using hydrogen. Maybe it is no sexy like fuel cells and
other darlings of the stock promoters but WILL BE the answer to let us use
hydrogen competitively to reduce or eleiminate fossil fuels. Solar, wind,
fermentation or nuclear derived hydrogen will do that now !
End of daily green-spiel.
Jones
