In reply to R.C.Macaulay's message of Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:45:22 -0600: Hi, [snip] >BlankHowdy Vorts, > >The guy in the lecture makes Brown's gas sound simple and easy. The extreme >heat is via a combustion between the gas and the solid , supposedly the harder >the solid, the higher the heat produced. >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czZ9kn70Y7I&feature=related > >Lets see, If I wanted to build a type heater like an infrared radiant heater >similar to a propane and ceramic element type.. what would I use in lieu of >ceramic since , like firebrick , it tends to incinerate into powder?
The material is irrelevant. Just make sure it sits in a crucible, and the flame is pointing down. That way, as long as it has nowhere to go, it will just sit there getting hot under the collar. Unless of course it is consumed in the process, but then that's a problem you would otherwise have anyway. Sit a mirror at 45 deg. behind it, to throw the radiant heat forward. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
