Alternative Power sources - Re: Hydrogen is too difficult.

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Re: Hydrogen is too difficult.

bsr3997@my-deja.com

2006-02-20, 5:21 pm

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Psiclone wrote:
>
>
> There is nothing you can do to the hydrogen or oxygen to give the process
> more "umph". All chemical reactions release fixed, quantifiable, amounts
> of energy. The energy released in the hydrogen-oxygen reaction has been
> known for many decades. The only way to get more power out of the hydrogen
> is to use it for fusion.
> --
> derek

Reacting hydrogen with pure oxygen would produce a hotter flame than
using air since it would not have to raise the temp of the nitrogen
going along for the ride. That would also eliminate the oxides of
nitrogen that would otherwise be produced. The efficiency of heat
engines depends on the difference in temp between the high and low temp
of the cycle. So using the pure oxygen would recover more energy, but
there are still better ways to use the energy than electralysis.

Bruce

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