AquaFuel Warning & Infinite Energy Magazine
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Over-Unity Hydrogen Production? Nuclear Energy?
EXPERIMENTERS - USE EXTREME CAUTION!
The increasing coverage of the patented (#5,435,274 - others pending)
AquaFuel and COH2 discoveries in science, engineering, environmental trade
journals, newspapers, and TV is leading many professionals and layman
alike to begin experimenting with this underwater carbon arc fuel gas
generating technology. Since experimenting with AquaFuel generation is so
easy-many people may not be aware of the many dangers involved. Below is
a warning made by INFINITE ENERGY Magazine editor Eugene F. Mallove in
response to his readers expressing a desire to experiment with AquaFuel.
This bears repeating.
"AquaFuel is, indeed, easy to make, just as the picture shows. It may
be easiest to work with a few lead-acid automobile storage batteries in
series, with 0.25-inch diameter or greater carbon rods (obtained from a
local welding supply shop) held by alligator clamps to well-insulated
leads. A standard arc-welder -DC or AC- will also do. The power will
determine how much gas you produce in a given time. Then all that is
needed is a tank of tap water, an inverted funnel, and a tube to collect
the gas. But PLEASE, you must observe safety precautions! There are
electrical hazards, explosion hazards, and toxicity of the CO in the gas.
See continuing coverage of this type of gas in this issue of IE (#10 and
future issues). The great beauty of this is that home-experiments are
very easy to do, but SAFETY FIRST! - EFM"
The most common mishap is explosions caused by allowing air to mix with
the generated fuel in a funnel or collector. While AquaFuel is not
combustible in its virgin state, it becomes highly explosive when mixed
with air. People have been doused with water or showered with container
fragments following an explosion where they put a flame or spark to a
collector funnel which had not been first purged of all air. Pure
AquaFuel has been compressed up to 3,500 psig so far without incident
under highly controlled conditions. Mixing AquaFuel with air and
compressing it could be disastrous as with most fuel/air mixtures, except
of course as when properly fed into and compressed with a piston in an
internal combustion engine.
The AquaFuel process appears to mirror image MIT’s work on the
plasmatron (See Plasma Reformer-Fuel Cell Systems For Decentralized Power
Applications International Journal of Hydrogen Energy -January 1997) where
various hydrocarbons are subjected to an electric arc and reformed into H
and CO. EPRI has chosen a demonstration 2MW molten carbonate fuel cell
(MCFC) unit as most suitable for urban needs. Because of the high
operating temperature, hydrogen and carbon monoxide can be used as fuels
for the MCFC. Instead of breaking down complex hydrocarbon chains and
reforming them into H and CO however, the AquaFuel process obtains
hydrogen and oxygen from water and consumes the graphite electrodes for
carbon input into the generated gas.
John O’M Bockris’s speculation in IE #10 about AquaFuel is most
intriguing when he states " The speculation is that even under these low
voltage, high current conditions a nuclear reaction occurs between the
naturally present deuterium to form helium and the heat of this reaction
causes the dissociation of water which would give rise to the excess
hydrogen."
Eugene Mallove’s comment in IE #10 that "Of course, we don’t know for
certain that this AquaFuel or COH2 generation process is over unity, so we
should not too quickly draw conclusions. One conclusion is firm, however:
It is of the very highest priority to get to the bottom of the energetics
of these reactions as soon as possible. This could well be one of the
biggest breakthroughs in new energy technology of the past seven years!"
is right on target. We look forward to the promise of accelerated
research and results coverage of carbon arc technology in future issues of
Infinite Energy Magazine. For those who don’t yet subscribe but are
interested to see several carbon-arc patents on gas production, experiment
data, and various analysis I suggest a subscription starting with back
issues #9 and #10. Subscription information can be found at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JedRothwell. AquaFuel Inventor
Bill Richardson can be contacted at phone: 407-723-1163 or fax:
407-723-4114.
We can’t stop an army of people ranging from high school students to
Ph.D’s from working on this simple yet mysterious discovery. Just
remember - no one yet knows the many secrets and possible dangers of this
exciting new technology. For your own personal safety - don’t take any
unnecessary risks. The inventors of Teflon treated their discovery as
though it was a highly dangerous new substance until all the data was in.
Such precautions are always advisable when dealing with the unknown.
Rob Jaeger - For the AquaFuel Association