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JakTheHammer
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:27 pm
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<Willie.Mookie@gmail.com> wrote in message news:6d8c81c6-acdb-467d-9b5f-4c398c572a09@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
On Jan 26, 12:29 am, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
Quote:
Willie.Moo...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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On Jan 25, 10:33 pm, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
"Fred Kasner" <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

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vuv...@gmail.com wrote:
iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade. That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?

sounds like porphyritic iron to me. And do you know why it has that
name? Becaause it doesn't catalyze the decomposition of water but rather
it reacts with water to produce iron oxide and a rather energetic
reaction.

100 degrees centigrade = 212F, this is boiling point of water, even 150F
your water vapor will destroy your Catalyst converter. DumbFuck Poster, do
you know what you're doing? Many of you acting smart went online selling
the Fucking Scam Hydrogen generator (when in fact it's a simple "water
vapor
generator")........heeheee...........Yup.......America got
fucked............ Go check the latest cost of living in your
stores........Ain't that GRAND?..............
Fred,
You're talking out of your ass.
First off, the boiling point of water you cite is at only accurate if
you assume one atmosphere (14.7 psi). Nearly everyone but you knows
that when you increase the pressure and the boiling point rises - so

Hey you Willie, the opportunistic talker out of a nice ass:


Quote:
Wait a minute, you are saying that water boils only at 100C or 212F?
lol. And you're calling ME a dumbass? I see you elided the table i
gave you from the autoclave. Didn't your momma ever fix dinner in a
pressure cooker? sheex
"Are motor vehicle users seatting at 14.7psi ?"
What does that have to do witn anything we're talkinga bout dog?

Yup.... You are a Big DumbAss, because you never go to the core. Yup 100C = 212F at Sea level is the boiling point, "That's where people normally boil water. People don't boil water 2000-Ft above or below the ground." So for you to bring your PSI table to confuse people is just you're blaming the Aluminardi about the falling of the Doll$$$.



Quote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_point

Boiling point

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the boiling point of liquids. For other uses, see
Boiling point (disambiguation).
The boiling point of a liquid is the temperature at which the vapor pressure
of the liquid equals the environmental pressure surrounding the
liquid.[1][2][3][4] A liquid in a vacuum environment has a lower boiling
point than when the liquid is at atmospheric pressure. And a liquid in a
high pressure environment has a higher boiling point than when the liquid is
at atmospheric pressure.

This is precisely what I said. Obviously your abusive and dismissive
comments are gratuitous - since there is no real basis for them.


NOP! You didn't say that. You believe people boil water at 2000-FT above or below the ground. You brought the table to complicate thing.


Useless to argue with he Moron, don't you think? By the way, there are many Patented products that don't work! Fuck them, both the inventors and the office that granted them.
JakTheHammer
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:31 pm
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<Willie.Mookie@gmail.com> wrote in message news:6d8c81c6-acdb-467d-9b5f-4c398c572a09@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
On Jan 26, 12:29 am, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
Quote:
Willie.Moo...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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On Jan 25, 10:33 pm, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
"Fred Kasner" <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

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vuv...@gmail.com wrote:
iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade. That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?

sounds like porphyritic iron to me. And do you know why it has that
name? Becaause it doesn't catalyze the decomposition of water but rather
it reacts with water to produce iron oxide and a rather energetic
reaction.

100 degrees centigrade = 212F, this is boiling point of water, even 150F
your water vapor will destroy your Catalyst converter. DumbFuck Poster, do
you know what you're doing? Many of you acting smart went online selling
the Fucking Scam Hydrogen generator (when in fact it's a simple "water
vapor
generator")........heeheee...........Yup.......America got
fucked............ Go check the latest cost of living in your
stores........Ain't that GRAND?..............
Fred,
You're talking out of your ass.
First off, the boiling point of water you cite is at only accurate if
you assume one atmosphere (14.7 psi). Nearly everyone but you knows
that when you increase the pressure and the boiling point rises - so

Hey you Willie, the opportunistic talker out of a nice ass:


Quote:
Wait a minute, you are saying that water boils only at 100C or 212F?
lol. And you're calling ME a dumbass? I see you elided the table i
gave you from the autoclave. Didn't your momma ever fix dinner in a
pressure cooker? sheex
"Are motor vehicle users seatting at 14.7psi ?"
What does that have to do witn anything we're talkinga bout dog?

Yup.... You are a Big DumbAss, because you never go to the core. Yup 100C = 212F at Sea level is the boiling point, "That's where people normally boil water. People don't boil water 2000-Ft above or below the ground." So for you to bring your PSI table to confuse people is just LIKE you're blaming the Aluminardi about the falling of the Doll$$$.



Quote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_point

Boiling point

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the boiling point of liquids. For other uses, see
Boiling point (disambiguation).
The boiling point of a liquid is the temperature at which the vapor pressure
of the liquid equals the environmental pressure surrounding the
liquid.[1][2][3][4] A liquid in a vacuum environment has a lower boiling
point than when the liquid is at atmospheric pressure. And a liquid in a
high pressure environment has a higher boiling point than when the liquid is
at atmospheric pressure.

This is precisely what I said. Obviously your abusive and dismissive
comments are gratuitous - since there is no real basis for them.


NOP! You didn't say that. You believe people boil water at 2000-FT above or below the ground. You brought the table to complicate thing.

By the way, there're many Patented products that don't work! Fuck them, both the inventors and the office that granted them but mostly the DumbAss inventors. Useless to argue with the Moron, don't you think? Who is the Moron? He won't know himself.

PS. my typing speed usually runs out of synch, that's why you see missing word/character.
Fred Kasner
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:05 pm
Guest
Willie.Mookie@gmail.com wrote:
Quote:
On Jan 25, 10:33 pm, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
"Fred Kasner" <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

news:i2umj.3091$nK5.2151@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com...

vuv...@gmail.com wrote:
iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade. That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?
sounds like porphyritic iron to me. And do you know why it has that
name? Becaause it doesn't catalyze the decomposition of water but rather
it reacts with water to produce iron oxide and a rather energetic
reaction.
100 degrees centigrade = 212F, this is boiling point of water, even 150F
your water vapor will destroy your Catalyst converter. DumbFuck Poster, do
you know what you're doing? Many of you acting smart went online selling
the Fucking Scam Hydrogen generator (when in fact it's a simple "water vapor
generator")........heeheee...........Yup.......America got
fucked............ Go check the latest cost of living in your
stores........Ain't that GRAND?..............

Fred,

You're talking out of your ass.

First off, the boiling point of water you cite is at only accurate if
you assume one atmosphere (14.7 psi). Nearly everyone but you knows
that when you increase the pressure and the boiling point rises - so
steam can have be very hot. As I mentioned, 600C steam is required to
catalyze water into hydrogen using iron. This has been done for years
and it cited in many an old chemistry text - Linus Pauling's GENERAL
CHEMISTRY from Dover Press is a very good read for those who really
want to know a thing or two about Chemistry.

Here is a chart for an autoclave relating pressure and temperature

http://www.broadleyjames.com/FAQ-text/102-faq.html

The temperatures are rather modest, but this is only used for
sterilization.

As for your comments about the sensitivity of catalysts to
temperatures approaching 100C - check out the operating temperatures
of catalytic converters in car exhausts. Car exhausts are a lot
hotter than 100C. Obviously catalytic converters work under these
conditions. This obviously proves you are wrong in your idiotic
assertion about catalytic temperatures. For someone who wants to
know, all they've gotta do is pull down a technical reference for the
reaction they want to catalyze and there will be given a range of
temperatures and pressures needed for efficent operation. They're not
all below 100C - which is my point.

Please note that most catalysts operate at temperatures above the
boiling point of water. To use iron to efficiently make hydrogen from
water, you need 600C steam. Its in all the technical literature if
you'd care to look it up.

So,your commentary is dead wrong about the catalysts..

You are obviously wrong about steam temperatures and the sensitivity
of all catalysts to temperatures above 100C.

Now, I move on to your point about 'scam hydrogen generator' and 'dumb
fuck poster'

You seem to be the 'dumb fuck' to use your phrase - since you
obviously can't tell that there is a clear difference between workable
systems - such a hydro-electric powered hydrogen generation - and non
workable systems which get a lot more press than the workable
systems. It seems the media likes to marginalize alternative energy
systems by promoting scams and then debunking them in quick succession
- while ignoring workable systems totally.

Now, while iron is an efficient catalyst for converting water and heat
to hydrogen, its not clear it can be made into an efficient carbon-
free hydrogen generator system. Which was my point in posting - with
the technical details to back up my comments.

Your response indeed portrays you as a 'dumb fuck' - which it too
damned bad.


Talking about ignorance: Iron does not - I repeat not - catalyze steam
at high temperature. The change is a chemical reaction that changes the
iron into iron oxide and the iron oxided does NOT revert to iron. A
catalyst is characterized by for a considerable amount of time being
left unchanged by any chemical reaction it promotes (e.g. the catalytic
converter in an internal combustion vehicle exhaust.) So it would appear
you have joined the ranks of a "dumb fuck" as well as the person you
hectored.
FK
JakTheHammer
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:20 pm
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"Fred Kasner" <fkasner@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:cVPmj.4083$J41.3006@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net...
Quote:
Willie.Mookie@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 25, 10:33 pm, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
"Fred Kasner" <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

news:i2umj.3091$nK5.2151@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com...

vuv...@gmail.com wrote:
iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade. That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?
sounds like porphyritic iron to me. And do you know why it has that
name? Becaause it doesn't catalyze the decomposition of water but rather
it reacts with water to produce iron oxide and a rather energetic
reaction.
100 degrees centigrade = 212F, this is boiling point of water, even 150F
your water vapor will destroy your Catalyst converter. DumbFuck Poster, do
you know what you're doing? Many of you acting smart went online selling
the Fucking Scam Hydrogen generator (when in fact it's a simple "water vapor
generator")........heeheee...........Yup.......America got
fucked............ Go check the latest cost of living in your
stores........Ain't that GRAND?..............

Fred,

You're talking out of your ass.

First off, the boiling point of water you cite is at only accurate if
you assume one atmosphere (14.7 psi). Nearly everyone but you knows
that when you increase the pressure and the boiling point rises - so
steam can have be very hot. As I mentioned, 600C steam is required to
catalyze water into hydrogen using iron. This has been done for years
and it cited in many an old chemistry text - Linus Pauling's GENERAL
CHEMISTRY from Dover Press is a very good read for those who really
want to know a thing or two about Chemistry.

Here is a chart for an autoclave relating pressure and temperature

http://www.broadleyjames.com/FAQ-text/102-faq.html

The temperatures are rather modest, but this is only used for
sterilization.

As for your comments about the sensitivity of catalysts to
temperatures approaching 100C - check out the operating temperatures
of catalytic converters in car exhausts. Car exhausts are a lot
hotter than 100C. Obviously catalytic converters work under these
conditions. This obviously proves you are wrong in your idiotic
assertion about catalytic temperatures. For someone who wants to
know, all they've gotta do is pull down a technical reference for the
reaction they want to catalyze and there will be given a range of
temperatures and pressures needed for efficent operation. They're not
all below 100C - which is my point.

Please note that most catalysts operate at temperatures above the
boiling point of water. To use iron to efficiently make hydrogen from
water, you need 600C steam. Its in all the technical literature if
you'd care to look it up.

So,your commentary is dead wrong about the catalysts..

You are obviously wrong about steam temperatures and the sensitivity
of all catalysts to temperatures above 100C.

Now, I move on to your point about 'scam hydrogen generator' and 'dumb
fuck poster'

You seem to be the 'dumb fuck' to use your phrase - since you
obviously can't tell that there is a clear difference between workable
systems - such a hydro-electric powered hydrogen generation - and non
workable systems which get a lot more press than the workable
systems. It seems the media likes to marginalize alternative energy
systems by promoting scams and then debunking them in quick succession
- while ignoring workable systems totally.

Now, while iron is an efficient catalyst for converting water and heat
to hydrogen, its not clear it can be made into an efficient carbon-
free hydrogen generator system. Which was my point in posting - with
the technical details to back up my comments.

Your response indeed portrays you as a 'dumb fuck' - which it too
damned bad.


Talking about ignorance: Iron does not - I repeat not - catalyze steam
at high temperature. The change is a chemical reaction that changes the
iron into iron oxide and the iron oxided does NOT revert to iron. A
catalyst is characterized by for a considerable amount of time being
left unchanged by any chemical reaction it promotes (e.g. the catalytic
converter in an internal combustion vehicle exhaust.) So it would appear
you have joined the ranks of a "dumb fuck" as well as the person you
hectored.
FK

Frankenstein said his catalytic converter is located in his mom's exhaust Pipe! Ha-ha...... and he called every one here DumbFuck.... Wow! Amazing American Nuts, who can get stupider than him? Ha-ha..... I thought Willie was already stupid enough.....Ha-ha........heeheee.........
Guest
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:51 pm
On Jan 27, 8:27 am, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
Quote:
Willie.Moo...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:6d8c81c6-acdb-467d-9b5f-4c398c572a09@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

On Jan 26, 12:29 am, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:



Willie.Moo...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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On Jan 25, 10:33 pm, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
"Fred Kasner" <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

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vuv...@gmail.com wrote:
iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade. That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?

sounds like porphyritic iron to me. And do you know why it has that
name? Becaause it doesn't catalyze the decomposition of water but rather
it reacts with water to produce iron oxide and a rather energetic
reaction.

100 degrees centigrade = 212F, this is boiling point of water, even 150F
your water vapor will destroy your Catalyst converter. DumbFuck Poster, do
you know what you're doing? Many of you acting smart went online selling
the Fucking Scam Hydrogen generator (when in fact it's a simple "water
vapor
generator")........heeheee...........Yup.......America got
fucked............ Go check the latest cost of living in your
stores........Ain't that GRAND?..............
Fred,
You're talking out of your ass.
First off, the boiling point of water you cite is at only accurate if
you assume one atmosphere (14.7 psi). Nearly everyone but you knows
that when you increase the pressure and the boiling point rises - so

Hey you Willie, the opportunistic talker out of a nice ass:
Wait a minute, you are saying that water boils only at 100C or 212F?
lol. And you're calling ME a dumbass? I see you elided the table i
gave you from the autoclave. Didn't your momma ever fix dinner in a
pressure cooker? sheex
"Are motor vehicle users seatting at 14.7psi ?"
What does that have to do witn anything we're talkinga bout dog?

Yup.... You are a Big DumbAss, because you never go to the core. Yup 100C = 212F at Sea level is the boiling point, "That's where people normally boil water. People don't boil water 2000-Ft above or below the ground." So for you to bring your PSI table to confuse people is just you're blaming the Aluminardi about the falling of the Doll$$$.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_point

Boiling point

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the boiling point of liquids. For other uses, see
Boiling point (disambiguation).
The boiling point of a liquid is the temperature at which the vapor pressure
of the liquid equals the environmental pressure surrounding the
liquid.[1][2][3][4] A liquid in a vacuum environment has a lower boiling
point than when the liquid is at atmospheric pressure. And a liquid in a
high pressure environment has a higher boiling point than when the liquid is
at atmospheric pressure.
This is precisely what I said. Obviously your abusive and dismissive
comments are gratuitous - since there is no real basis for them.

NOP! You didn't say that. You believe people boil water at 2000-FT above or below the ground. You brought the table to complicate thing.

Useless to argue with he Moron, don't you think? By the way, there are many Patented products that don't work! Fuck them, both the inventors and the office that granted them.

Gee Jak, my brother boils his water well above 2000 feet. Comes from
living in McCall, Idaho.
BradGuth
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:40 am
Guest
On Jan 22, 6:53 pm, vuv...@gmail.com wrote:
Quote:
iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade. That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?

Iron and many other substances can obviously be processed for
extracting hydrogen, however Mook's basis of cheap solar derived
energy is but only hyped as a sham by way of those trying to
continually snooker and dumbfound the rest of us village idiots, as
otherwise it is but one of several viable alternatives to our fossil
fuel demise and of having to survive those unavoidable world wars that
seriously suck and badly inflate the value of most all that remains.

Since there is quite a energy loss in commercially obtaining raw
hydrogen to start with, not to mention on behalf of storing and
distributing such to various end users, whereas such you'll need lots
of clean and fully renewable forms of spare/surplus energy to start
with.

A coverage of just one million km2 worth of relatively cheap PV units
should more than do the trick, and that's not including multiple other
clean and renewable energy alternatives of greater energy density that
wouldn't demand nearly a tenth as much of a surface footprint.

On a somewhat related topic of what to do with some of that spare/
surplus energy:

On Jan 27, 8:45 am, Don Lancaster <d...@tinaja.com> wrote:
Quote:
Jim Rojas wrote:
Gasoline is 8 times more explosive than Hydrogen.

Not true.

The spark ignition energy of hydrogen is much lower than most other
substances.

0.017 mJ for hydrogen
0.274 mJ for methane

See http://www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf

It's true that a fuel-rich burn of hydrogen and air isn't all that
impressive, as well as being the case with most such fuel-rich
combustion forms of energy that'll consume a local atmosphere of
mostly cool N2. However, it seems the "Don Lancaster" notion of a
global future of spendy energy and continued pollution via fossil fuel
usage is just the sooty and NOx toxic tip of his AGW iceberg that's
intended to stick all of us with the even more spendy and environment
polluting results of our having to fully utilize nuclear energy, of
which excludes most all those pesky 3rd world nations and especially
of those Muslim folks we don't like right off the bat, that'll simply
have to do without and/or starve to death because of their not
affording the bloody $1000/barrel price tag of the Don Lancaster
crude, or of his equally spendy and more so polluting coal derived
energy.

Essentially the Don Lancasters of Usenet and so many other public
forums are doing exactly what their ENRON and big-energy partners in
crimes against humanity expect of their brown-nosed minions, as though
only their form of Semitic warlordism and global energy domination is
what counts. Taking further notice as to how each and every rant of
Lancaster wisdom is without a stitch of remorse for the past, present
or future as long as his mostly offshore energy investments and tax
avoidance banking is being stuffed with our hard earned loot, so much
so that they never have to complain about the cost of energy that's
sustaining their quality of life.

I can fully agree with the analogy/rant as to gasoline and of many
other fossil fuels being extremely dangerous from birth to grave, as
well as potentially lethal in ways often discounted by those
continually promoting their usage. However, there is less to worry
about the making, storing and using of h2o2 (hydrogen peroxide) than
having to deal with the likes of creating compressed hydrogen or
especially that of LH2. Unfortunately, no matters how clean and
renewable there is no such thing as any failsafe form of stored
energy, whereas most any certified moron can and will mange to
accomplish great harm to himself and others if given the opportunity.

In place of those nasty and explosive fossil fuels that typically
manage to degrade and/or pollute most everything in sight, there is in
fact more than a sufficient influx of solar, gravity/tidal and
otherwise of wind plus that cache of our own geothermal energy to do
the trick of producing H2/LH2 and h2o2, as well as cheaply enough and
clean enough to make it all work. Unfortunately, there is no apparent
way our DOE or any other government agency is going to support the
likes of honest folks, because that's certainly not what our
government ever does. Our government seems to like ulterior motives,
hidden agendas and of those cloak and dagger sorts of individuals in
charge of such.

However, as for the rest of us having our honest say, on behalf of
accomplishing such clean and renewable energy is always opposed by the
actions of those in Usenet and the likes of NASA's brown-nosed minions
within Uplink.Space.com as not caring about others of any faith other
than their pretend atheism that acts and/or reacts exactly as though
Old Testament Jewish, of those individuals hiding behind phony names
and extensively not caring as to however spendy energy gets, of how
polluted and AGW our environment gets nailed or of how much our
government lies to us, that are also the ones telling us that whatever
the past doesn't count and that if need be WWIII is necessary, and
that Muslim deaths simply don't ever count.

Our new and improved NASA, that for the past 8 years and counting as
having ignored all things Venus, is about to fold upon itself once
again (as you should know the 8th fold is next to impossible), and
that's before their own dumbfounded eyes of denial and evidence
exclusion, in much the same as our old NASA/Apollo fiasco that for
some odd reasons still can't be imaged from the best efforts of JAXA's
Selene (KAGUYA) as offering its 3D imaging that's of a more than
sufficient 10 meters/pixel resolution and terrific DR that's at least
4X better than film, as though our supposed "right stuff" that's so
bright and shiny upon that physically dark surface is having to
continually hide under most any available moon rock because, there's
still nothing of any such bright and shiny Apollo technology residing
upon that physically dark as coal moon of ours (unless an artificial
crater counts).

Basically our governments lie to us as regular as clockwork, and as
such they only want to do business with other born-again liars of
their own kind because, the last thing they need within their Skull
and Bones cult is someone telling us village idiots the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, such as about those clean and renewable
energy resources that can safely produce the likes of Mook hydrogen
and Guth peroxide.
.. - Brad Guth
BradGuth
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:52 am
Guest
On Jan 25, 8:52 pm, Willie.Moo...@gmail.com wrote:
Quote:
On Jan 25, 3:25 pm, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:



"Bob Eld" <nsmontas...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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vuv...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade. That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?

Mook has shown the equations in the above posts. Notice that no matter
what,
you wind up with iron oxide that must be reduced back to elemental iron to
complete the cycle.

Therein lies the rub. To get iron from iron oxide, you must reduce the
oxide
with something. Carbon, carbon monoxide, hydrogen or gases containing
hydrogen and carbon like methane are typically used to reduce iron oxide
to
iron.

Obviously you can't use hydrogen because that is the product you are
trying
to make in the first reaction. Therefore you are left with carbon or
hydrocarbons both of which produce CO2 the very thing you were trying to
eliminate going to hydrogen in the first place.

Producing hydrogen by any method that produces CO2 as a byproduct is
problematic and largely negates one main reason for producing hydrogen. If
CO2 is acceptable, as it might be if sequestered or ignored, then you
might
as well use the carbon containing fuel in the first place. Why hydrogen?

In otherwords, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Today, CO2 is just dumped into the atmosphere. I assume your question
relates to finding ways to make "green hydrogen."

You sounded smarter than Willie Smookie.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

How's that work? He said exactly the same thing I said, without the
equations. Iron can be used to catalyze the production of hydrogen
from water, but as Heinlein always said, TNSTAAFL! Which I agree.

One system I'm very excited about incorporates a miniature version of
my variable load electrolyzer that's sandwidched to the heat exchanger
side of my high intensity solar die. This creates a high temperatures
electrolysis system that uses the 'waste heat' of the high intensity
die to help with electrolysis.

This is a variant of the water filled concentrating lens array, but
the metal foil and wire setup to collect electrons is replaced with a
water supply and hydrogen/oxygen collector - which is basically
achieved using small tubes created by molding sheets of PET with
channels and joining them with ultrasonic bonding..

The exciting part is that with 38% efficient multi-spectral multi-
junction PV, combined with solar heating of the electrolyzer, you get
about 55% of the incident solar radiation turned into hydrogen fuel.

There are difficulties however. The central one is the high cost of
the Ge/GaAs/InPh cell - about $12 per sq in. Another is the high
temperature of operation and the cycling of that high temp component
in the PET substrate.

We're working on solutions to all of these. The central one is to
achieve 5,000x solar intensity - which creates some issues with the
optics.

However none are show stoppers - and in the end, we believe we can get
an integrated system together for about $0.03 per peak watt.

So, here's how the new system stacks up;

new system

55% conversion efficiency to hydrogen
3.8 metric tons per hour per sq km of sunlight
$16.5 million per sq km capital cost
$5.2 million per year/sq km.
31.5% APR

current system

15% conversion efficiency to hydrogen
1.1 metric tons per hour per sq km of sunlight
$12.6 million per sq km capital cost
$1.5 million per year/sq km.
11.9% APR

Both assume hydrogen sales of $800 per metric ton.

The current system uses a silicon based solar panel array connected to
variable load electrolyzers in the field. Detailed specifications
can be obtained by visiting my web site and filling out the contact
information there

http;//www.usoal.com

So, with a $30 million NRE charge, and 25 sq km collector area, total
installation charges of $442.5 million for the new system - and $315
million for the older system (no NRE charges there) - and each produce
$130 million per year and $37.5 million respectively. Valued at 10x
earnings each installation when completed would be $3.15 billion and
$1.30 billion respectively. Assuming a five year cycle for the new
system and a three year installation cycle for the older system, and
discounting the cost of capital at 40% per year, this translates to
$2.75 for each $1.00 risked on the older design and $5.38 for each
$1.00 risked on the newer system. This translates to an ownership
position in each project as 75.5% of the newer design and 66.7% of the
older design - assuming all the project sales occur at one time at the
beginning of the project.

EXAMPLE
25 sq km representative solar hydrogen project with each
technology

New high-temperature electrolyzer

$442.5 million amount risked
$2,380.7 million - value realized

$3,150.0 million - project value realized
5.0 years - term

75.5% ownership position
$5.86 million/point

161,500 metric tons hydrogen per year

Current - silicon based DC driven low temp electrolyzer

$315.0 million amount risked
$866.2 million - value realized

$1,300.0 million - project value realized
3.0 years - term

66.7% ownership position
$4.72 million - value realized

46,750 metric tons hydrogen per year

The world currently uses the following fuels to provide the bulk of
its primary energy for industry;

Crude Oil: 28.3 billion barrels
Coal: 5.5 billion metric tons
Natural Gas 2.2 billion metric tons

and produces about 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year at a
cost of about $4,000 billion per year.

The world may replace all this fuel with hydrogen gas, since hydrogen
burns under the same conditions all these other fuels burn.

Hydrogen: 3.34 billion metric tons

made with 30 billion tons of DI water each year and solar energy made
with my system. Sold at $800 per metric ton this has an annual cost
of .$2,672 billion per year

The new system described here represents the following opportunity

New System.

3.8 metric tons per hour per sq km
1700 hours insolation
6,460 metric tons per sq km per year

517,000 sq km solar panels total
$6,514 billion CAPEX

Approximately 21,000 installations each 25 sq km in area would supply
all the world's energy needs with hydrogen.

You are preaching to the big-energy Third Reich that already knows all
there is to know, but clearly doesn't actually give a tinkers damn
about ever reducing the consumer cost of their energy, or much less of
allowing others to obtain any commercial amounts of whatever "green
hydrogen", and obviously even by way of lord Mook standards is what
makes LH2 unlikely, and God forbid h2o2.
.- Brad Guth
Guest
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:22 am
On Jan 26, 7:05 pm, Fred Kasner <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Quote:
Willie.Moo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 25, 10:33 pm, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
"Fred Kasner" <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

news:i2umj.3091$nK5.2151@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com...

vuv...@gmail.com wrote:
iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade.  That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?
sounds like porphyritic iron to me. And do you know why it has that
name? Becaause it doesn't catalyze the decomposition of water but rather
it reacts with water to produce iron oxide and a rather energetic
reaction.
100 degrees centigrade = 212F, this is boiling point of water, even 150F
your water vapor will destroy your Catalyst converter.  DumbFuck Poster, do
you know what you're doing?  Many of you acting smart went online selling
the Fucking Scam Hydrogen generator (when in fact it's a simple "water vapor
generator")........heeheee...........Yup.......America got
fucked............ Go check the latest cost of living in your
stores........Ain't that GRAND?..............

Fred,

You're talking out of your ass.

First off, the boiling point of water you cite is at only accurate if
you assume one atmosphere (14.7 psi).  Nearly everyone but you knows
that when you increase the pressure and the boiling point rises - so
steam can have be very hot.  As I mentioned, 600C steam is required to
catalyze water into hydrogen using iron.  This has been done for years
and it cited in many an old chemistry text - Linus Pauling's GENERAL
CHEMISTRY from Dover Press is a very good read for those who really
want to know a thing or two about Chemistry.

Here is a chart for an autoclave relating pressure and temperature

http://www.broadleyjames.com/FAQ-text/102-faq.html

The temperatures are rather modest, but this is only used for
sterilization.

As for your comments about the sensitivity of catalysts to
temperatures approaching 100C - check out the operating temperatures
of catalytic converters in car exhausts.  Car exhausts are a lot
hotter than 100C.  Obviously catalytic converters work under these
conditions.  This obviously proves you are wrong in your idiotic
assertion about catalytic temperatures.  For someone who wants to
know, all they've gotta do is pull down a technical reference for the
reaction they want to catalyze and there will be given a range of
temperatures and pressures needed for efficent operation.  They're not
all below 100C - which is my point.

Please note that most catalysts operate at temperatures above the
boiling point of water.  To use iron to efficiently make hydrogen from
water, you need 600C steam.  Its in all the technical literature if
you'd care to look it up.

So,your commentary is dead wrong about the catalysts..

You are obviously wrong about steam temperatures and the sensitivity
of all catalysts to temperatures above 100C.

Now, I move on to your point about 'scam hydrogen generator' and 'dumb
fuck poster'

You seem to be the 'dumb fuck' to use your phrase - since you
obviously can't tell that there is a clear difference between workable
systems - such a hydro-electric powered hydrogen generation - and non
workable systems which get a lot more press than the workable
systems.  It seems the media likes to marginalize alternative energy
systems by promoting scams and then debunking them in quick succession
- while  ignoring workable systems totally.

Now, while iron is an efficient catalyst for converting water and heat
to hydrogen, its not clear it can be made into an efficient carbon-
free hydrogen generator system.  Which was my point in posting - with
the technical details to back up my comments.

Your response indeed portrays you as a 'dumb fuck' - which it too
damned bad.

Talking about ignorance: Iron does not - I repeat not - catalyze steam
at high temperature. The change is a chemical reaction that changes the
iron into iron oxide and the iron oxided does NOT revert to iron. A
catalyst is characterized by for a considerable amount of time being
left unchanged by any chemical reaction it promotes (e.g. the catalytic
converter in an internal combustion vehicle exhaust.) So it would appear
you have joined the ranks of a "dumb fuck" as well as the person you
hectored.
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On Jan 26, 7:05 pm, Fred Kasner <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Quote:
Willie.Moo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 25, 10:33 pm, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
"Fred Kasner" <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

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vuv...@gmail.com wrote:
iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade. That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?
sounds like porphyritic iron to me. And do you know why it has that
name? Becaause it doesn't catalyze the decomposition of water but rather
it reacts with water to produce iron oxide and a rather energetic
reaction.
100 degrees centigrade = 212F, this is boiling point of water, even 150F
your water vapor will destroy your Catalyst converter. DumbFuck Poster, do
you know what you're doing? Many of you acting smart went online selling
the Fucking Scam Hydrogen generator (when in fact it's a simple "water vapor
generator")........heeheee...........Yup.......America got
fucked............ Go check the latest cost of living in your
stores........Ain't that GRAND?..............

Fred,

You're talking out of your ass.

First off, the boiling point of water you cite is at only accurate if
you assume one atmosphere (14.7 psi). Nearly everyone but you knows
that when you increase the pressure and the boiling point rises - so
steam can have be very hot. As I mentioned, 600C steam is required to
catalyze water into hydrogen using iron. This has been done for years
and it cited in many an old chemistry text - Linus Pauling's GENERAL
CHEMISTRY from Dover Press is a very good read for those who really
want to know a thing or two about Chemistry.

Here is a chart for an autoclave relating pressure and temperature

http://www.broadleyjames.com/FAQ-text/102-faq.html

The temperatures are rather modest, but this is only used for
sterilization.

As for your comments about the sensitivity of catalysts to
temperatures approaching 100C - check out the operating temperatures
of catalytic converters in car exhausts. Car exhausts are a lot
hotter than 100C. Obviously catalytic converters work under these
conditions. This obviously proves you are wrong in your idiotic
assertion about catalytic temperatures. For someone who wants to
know, all they've gotta do is pull down a technical reference for the
reaction they want to catalyze and there will be given a range of
temperatures and pressures needed for efficent operation. They're not
all below 100C - which is my point.

Please note that most catalysts operate at temperatures above the
boiling point of water. To use iron to efficiently make hydrogen from
water, you need 600C steam. Its in all the technical literature if
you'd care to look it up.

So,your commentary is dead wrong about the catalysts..

You are obviously wrong about steam temperatures and the sensitivity
of all catalysts to temperatures above 100C.

Now, I move on to your point about 'scam hydrogen generator' and 'dumb
fuck poster'

You seem to be the 'dumb fuck' to use your phrase - since you
obviously can't tell that there is a clear difference between workable
systems - such a hydro-electric powered hydrogen generation - and non
workable systems which get a lot more press than the workable
systems. It seems the media likes to marginalize alternative energy
systems by promoting scams and then debunking them in quick succession
- while ignoring workable systems totally.

Now, while iron is an efficient catalyst for converting water and heat
to hydrogen, its not clear it can be made into an efficient carbon-
free hydrogen generator system. Which was my point in posting - with
the technical details to back up my comments.

Your response indeed portrays you as a 'dumb fuck' - which it too
damned bad.

Talking about ignorance: Iron does not - I repeat not - catalyze steam
at high temperature. The change is a chemical reaction that changes the
iron into iron oxide and the iron oxided does NOT revert to iron. A
catalyst is characterized by for a considerable amount of time being
left unchanged by any chemical reaction it promotes (e.g. the catalytic
converter in an internal combustion vehicle exhaust.) So it would appear
you have joined the ranks of a "dumb fuck" as well as the person you
hectored.
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I'm not calling anyone names. I'm not hectoring anyone. You guys are
getting all hot and bothered with me for no good reason.

Now, clearly you are playing word games with me. Defining 'catalyst'
a certain way and then calling me names because I used it
improperly.

Obviously I know there's a chemical reaction taking place. I gave you
the mass balance equation for it!!! haha.. So you point cannot stick
logically.

Besides, since we're interested in the hydrogen, and interested in
reusing the iron - we need a secondary reaction to convert the iron
oxide to iron again - and carbon monoxide does this.- and I gave you
the reaction for that too!!!

So, what is something that isn't consumed but promotes a chemical
reaction?

that's right, a catalyst. lol.

This two reactions I wrote formulae for does indeed allow iron oxide
to play an important catalytic role in the conversion of brown coal to
oil in the Bergius process.

So, my comments are obviously justified.

Fact remains that when you expose iron filings to steam at 600C - you
get hydrogen gas and iron oxide. You can take the iron oxide and
expose it to carbon monoxide gas to restore the iron to its original
state to reuse it.

I only gave two reactions, but more can be added...

4 C + 2 O2 ---> 4 CO + heat
48 64 112

heat + 4 H2O ---> 4 H2O(steam)
72 72

4 H2O + 3 Fe ---> Fe3O4 + 4 H2
72 168 232 8

4 CO + Fe3O4 ---> 3 Fe + 4 CO2
112 232 168 176


CO2 + 4 H2 --> CH4 + 2 H2O
44 8 16 36

For every ton of methane produced in this way 8.25 tons of CO2 are
made and 2.25 tons of water are consumed along with 3 tons of carbon
and 4 tons of oxygen.

Assuming a ton of carbon is worth $40 and a ton of methane is worth
$400 - you can see this might be a profitable series of reactions to
carry out.

That is why companies like SASOL run LURGI REACTORS. to turn coal
into methane - and they use IRON AS A CATALYST in this gasification
process!!!

http://www.gasification.org/Docs/2000_Papers/Gtc00340.pdf


REPLACING THE CARBON WITH SOLAR OR NUCLEAR HEAT CLEANS THIS PROCESS
UP!

Imagine being able to use a hot solar heat source, or a hot nuclear
heat source, to break down carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon
monoxide again. Its been done, and even reported in the literature;

http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=5342668

So, we can see that we can make the following;reactions

3 CO2 + heat ---> 3 CO + 1.5 O2

and

4 CO2 + heat ---> 4 CO + 2 O2

The first reaction allows us to reduce the carbon input by 75% - from
3 tons to 750 kg per ton of methane. So, $30 worth of carbon turn
into $400 worth of synfuel - with zero carbon output.

The second reaction allows us to treat the carbon as a catalyst as
well as the iron, and produce hydrogen directly at $800 per ton from 9
tons of water at $0.30 per ton where all the heat comes from the
nuclear or solar source.


heat + 4 H2O ---> 4 H2O(steam)
72 72

4 H2O + 3 Fe ---> Fe3O4 + 4 H2
72 168 232 8

4 CO + Fe3O4 ---> 3 Fe + 4 CO2
112 232 168 176


4 CO2 + heat ---> 4 CO + 4 O2
176 112 64
JakTheHammer
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:42 pm
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Quote:
On Jan 27, 8:27 am, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
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On Jan 26, 12:29 am, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:



Willie.Moo...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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On Jan 25, 10:33 pm, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
"Fred Kasner" <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

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vuv...@gmail.com wrote:
iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade. That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?

sounds like porphyritic iron to me. And do you know why it has that
name? Becaause it doesn't catalyze the decomposition of water but rather
it reacts with water to produce iron oxide and a rather energetic
reaction.

100 degrees centigrade = 212F, this is boiling point of water, even 150F
your water vapor will destroy your Catalyst converter. DumbFuck Poster, do
you know what you're doing? Many of you acting smart went online selling
the Fucking Scam Hydrogen generator (when in fact it's a simple "water
vapor
generator")........heeheee...........Yup.......America got
fucked............ Go check the latest cost of living in your
stores........Ain't that GRAND?..............
Fred,
You're talking out of your ass.
First off, the boiling point of water you cite is at only accurate if
you assume one atmosphere (14.7 psi). Nearly everyone but you knows
that when you increase the pressure and the boiling point rises - so

Hey you Willie, the opportunistic talker out of a nice ass:
Wait a minute, you are saying that water boils only at 100C or 212F?
lol. And you're calling ME a dumbass? I see you elided the table i
gave you from the autoclave. Didn't your momma ever fix dinner in a
pressure cooker? sheex
"Are motor vehicle users seatting at 14.7psi ?"
What does that have to do witn anything we're talkinga bout dog?

Yup.... You are a Big DumbAss, because you never go to the core. Yup 100C = 212F at Sea level is the boiling point, "That's where people normally boil water. People don't boil water 2000-Ft above or below the ground." So for you to bring your PSI table to confuse people is just you're blaming the Aluminardi about the falling of the Doll$$$.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_point

Boiling point

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the boiling point of liquids. For other uses, see
Boiling point (disambiguation).
The boiling point of a liquid is the temperature at which the vapor pressure
of the liquid equals the environmental pressure surrounding the
liquid.[1][2][3][4] A liquid in a vacuum environment has a lower boiling
point than when the liquid is at atmospheric pressure. And a liquid in a
high pressure environment has a higher boiling point than when the liquid is
at atmospheric pressure.
This is precisely what I said. Obviously your abusive and dismissive
comments are gratuitous - since there is no real basis for them.

NOP! You didn't say that. You believe people boil water at 2000-FT above or below the ground. You brought the table to complicate thing.

Useless to argue with he Moron, don't you think? By the way, there are many Patented products that don't work! Fuck them, both the inventors and the office that granted them.

Gee Jak, my brother boils his water well above 2000 feet. Comes from
living in McCall, Idaho.

Really? I believe you, but I bet probably less 1% of people boiling water on top of the mountain. You have to consider the majority of people when you want to market something. It's practical that way, Don't join Willie Smookie and the rest of the Nerds here...heeheee.........
BradGuth
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:00 am
Guest
On Jan 27, 12:22 pm, Willie.Moo...@gmail.com wrote:
Quote:
On Jan 26, 7:05 pm, Fred Kasner <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:



Willie.Moo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 25, 10:33 pm, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
"Fred Kasner" <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

news:i2umj.3091$nK5.2151@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com...

vuv...@gmail.com wrote:
iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade. That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?
sounds like porphyritic iron to me. And do you know why it has that
name? Becaause it doesn't catalyze the decomposition of water but rather
it reacts with water to produce iron oxide and a rather energetic
reaction.
100 degrees centigrade = 212F, this is boiling point of water, even 150F
your water vapor will destroy your Catalyst converter. DumbFuck Poster, do
you know what you're doing? Many of you acting smart went online selling
the Fucking Scam Hydrogen generator (when in fact it's a simple "water vapor
generator")........heeheee...........Yup.......America got
fucked............ Go check the latest cost of living in your
stores........Ain't that GRAND?..............

Fred,

You're talking out of your ass.

First off, the boiling point of water you cite is at only accurate if
you assume one atmosphere (14.7 psi). Nearly everyone but you knows
that when you increase the pressure and the boiling point rises - so
steam can have be very hot. As I mentioned, 600C steam is required to
catalyze water into hydrogen using iron. This has been done for years
and it cited in many an old chemistry text - Linus Pauling's GENERAL
CHEMISTRY from Dover Press is a very good read for those who really
want to know a thing or two about Chemistry.

Here is a chart for an autoclave relating pressure and temperature

http://www.broadleyjames.com/FAQ-text/102-faq.html

The temperatures are rather modest, but this is only used for
sterilization.

As for your comments about the sensitivity of catalysts to
temperatures approaching 100C - check out the operating temperatures
of catalytic converters in car exhausts. Car exhausts are a lot
hotter than 100C. Obviously catalytic converters work under these
conditions. This obviously proves you are wrong in your idiotic
assertion about catalytic temperatures. For someone who wants to
know, all they've gotta do is pull down a technical reference for the
reaction they want to catalyze and there will be given a range of
temperatures and pressures needed for efficent operation. They're not
all below 100C - which is my point.

Please note that most catalysts operate at temperatures above the
boiling point of water. To use iron to efficiently make hydrogen from
water, you need 600C steam. Its in all the technical literature if
you'd care to look it up.

So,your commentary is dead wrong about the catalysts..

You are obviously wrong about steam temperatures and the sensitivity
of all catalysts to temperatures above 100C.

Now, I move on to your point about 'scam hydrogen generator' and 'dumb
fuck poster'

You seem to be the 'dumb fuck' to use your phrase - since you
obviously can't tell that there is a clear difference between workable
systems - such a hydro-electric powered hydrogen generation - and non
workable systems which get a lot more press than the workable
systems. It seems the media likes to marginalize alternative energy
systems by promoting scams and then debunking them in quick succession
- while ignoring workable systems totally.

Now, while iron is an efficient catalyst for converting water and heat
to hydrogen, its not clear it can be made into an efficient carbon-
free hydrogen generator system. Which was my point in posting - with
the technical details to back up my comments.

Your response indeed portrays you as a 'dumb fuck' - which it too
damned bad.

Talking about ignorance: Iron does not - I repeat not - catalyze steam
at high temperature. The change is a chemical reaction that changes the
iron into iron oxide and the iron oxided does NOT revert to iron. A
catalyst is characterized by for a considerable amount of time being
left unchanged by any chemical reaction it promotes (e.g. the catalytic
converter in an internal combustion vehicle exhaust.) So it would appear
you have joined the ranks of a "dumb fuck" as well as the person you
hectored.
FK- Hide quoted text -

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On Jan 26, 7:05 pm, Fred Kasner <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:



Willie.Moo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 25, 10:33 pm, "JakTheHammer" <jakthh...@aol.com> wrote:
"Fred Kasner" <fkas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

news:i2umj.3091$nK5.2151@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com...

vuv...@gmail.com wrote:
iron nanopowder will catalyze decomposition of H2O to hydrogen and
oxygen at 100 degrees centigrade. That's in the Mercke index. Does
anyone know how efficient that reaction is?
sounds like porphyritic iron to me. And do you know why it has that
name? Becaause it doesn't catalyze the decomposition of water but rather
it reacts with water to produce iron oxide and a rather energetic
reaction.
100 degrees centigrade = 212F, this is boiling point of water, even 150F
your water vapor will destroy your Catalyst converter. DumbFuck Poster, do
you know what you're doing? Many of you acting smart went online selling
the Fucking Scam Hydrogen generator (when in fact it's a simple "water vapor
generator")........heeheee...........Yup.......America got
fucked............ Go check the latest cost of living in your
stores........Ain't that GRAND?..............

Fred,

You're talking out of your ass.

First off, the boiling point of water you cite is at only accurate if
you assume one atmosphere (14.7 psi). Nearly everyone but you knows
that when you increase the pressure and the boiling point rises - so
steam can have be very hot. As I mentioned, 600C steam is required to
catalyze water into hydrogen using iron. This has been done for years
and it cited in many an old chemistry text - Linus Pauling's GENERAL
CHEMISTRY from Dover Press is a very good read for those who really
want to know a thing or two about Chemistry.

Here is a chart for an autoclave relating pressure and temperature

http://www.broadleyjames.com/FAQ-text/102-faq.html

The temperatures are rather modest, but this is only used for
sterilization.

As for your comments about the sensitivity of catalysts to
temperatures approaching 100C - check out the operating temperatures
of catalytic converters in car exhausts. Car exhausts are a lot
hotter than 100C. Obviously catalytic converters work under these
conditions. This obviously proves you are wrong in your idiotic
assertion about catalytic temperatures. For someone who wants to
know, all they've gotta do is pull down a technical reference for the
reaction they want to catalyze and there will be given a range of
temperatures and pressures needed for efficent operation. They're not
all below 100C - which is my point.

Please note that most catalysts operate at temperatures above the
boiling point of water. To use iron to efficiently make hydrogen from
water, you need 600C steam. Its in all the technical literature if
you'd care to look it up.

So,your commentary is dead wrong about the catalysts..

You are obviously wrong about steam temperatures and the sensitivity
of all catalysts to temperatures above 100C.

Now, I move on to your point about 'scam hydrogen generator' and 'dumb
fuck poster'

You seem to be the 'dumb fuck' to use your phrase - since you
obviously can't tell that there is a clear difference between workable
systems - such a hydro-electric powered hydrogen generation - and non
workable systems which get a lot more press than the workable
systems. It seems the media likes to marginalize alternative energy
systems by promoting scams and then debunking them in quick succession
- while ignoring workable systems totally.

Now, while iron is an efficient catalyst for converting water and heat
to hydrogen, its not clear it can be made into an efficient carbon-
free hydrogen generator system. Which was my point in posting - with
the technical details to back up my comments.

Your response indeed portrays you as a 'dumb fuck' - which it too
damned bad.

Talking about ignorance: Iron does not - I repeat not - catalyze steam
at high temperature. The change is a chemical reaction that changes the
iron into iron oxide and the iron oxided does NOT revert to iron. A
catalyst is characterized by for a considerable amount of time being
left unchanged by any chemical reaction it promotes (e.g. the catalytic
converter in an internal combustion vehicle exhaust.) So it would appear
you have joined the ranks of a "dumb fuck" as well as the person you
hectored.
FK- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I'm not calling anyone names. I'm not hectoring anyone. You guys are
getting all hot and bothered with me for no good reason.

Now, clearly you are playing word games with me. Defining 'catalyst'
a certain way and then calling me names because I used it
improperly.

Obviously I know there's a chemical reaction taking place. I gave you
the mass balance equation for it!!! haha.. So you point cannot stick
logically.

Besides, since we're interested in the hydrogen, and interested in
reusing the iron - we need a secondary reaction to convert the iron
oxide to iron again ...

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Obviously, you still don't get it, do you. Now which one of us is in
denial?
. - Brad Guth
Jakthehammer
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:12 am
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Eat Shit Fucking BeastBall Nuts!! Heeheee..........
 
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