I am immensely saddened to hear what has happened to Paul Pantone.
There but for pure luck could go I, or many of the lurkers here I
suspect.
On Jul 26, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Jones Beene wrote:
This principle allows the motorbike to operate on a mixture of 25
percent gasoline and 75 percent water. The bike has run on a trial
basis for several kilometers.
I love the Buckminster quote on the site:
"Il n'y a pas de crise de l'Energie, mais simplement une crise
d'Ignorance" B. Fuller
"There is no crisis of Energy, but simply a crisis of Ignorance," B.
Fuller
Speaking of ignorance, I can't remember exactly what the GEET
principle was (or devices are), though I know it was talked about at
length here including dialog about WWII tractors that ran on water
fuel mixtures, courtesy of Fred Sparber. Apparently using well timed
water injection, if that is what GEET is, is not all that bad an
idea, because generating steam from injected water converts excess
combustion heat into pressure. In other words the loss of pressure
due to loss of heat is less than the increase in pressure due to the
conversion of liquid water to steam. I can indeed see why Pantone
had problems managing this and had to do it manually if he had no
thermodynamic model of the process, or means to use such a model for
computer control of the process. GEET, if it is this kind of water
injection thing, would be much easier to apply to a constant rpm
constant torque motor used in a hybrid to charge batteries. The
claimed 25/75 mix sounds a bit excessive to me though. The excess
water might be key to carrying off pollutants in liquid form though,
at the end of the cycle. A water condensing unit in the exhaust, and
filtering and recycling unit might help all the work out. This is
not so far fetched as some tanks have been fitted with (drinking!)
exhaust water recovery systems based on cross-membrane exchange.
Gee, a tri-fuel approach might be an improvement. Inject fuel,
ignite, inject brown's gas to finish the burn and consume CO and
other pollutants, and inject water to convert excess pressure to heat
and further consume pollutants via steam catalysis. A cool exhaust
means a better use of the energy. I also like the idea of running a
spark plug using very high frequency sparks, similar to tesla coil
stuff. The HF SPARKS would spread uniformly over the insulator and
to a circular ground ring. Raising the spark voltage sounds like a
good idea too, as well as increasing the radius of the flat round
insulator interior face surface. It could overlap the spark plug
threads and extend to the engine female threads, i.e. to the head. A
small spark recess volume would increase compression, and allow the
spark to jump to the piston head at the point of maximum
compression. The reduction in individual spark current, while
increasing the number of sparks and overall effective spark volume
should reduce wear on all but the central electrode. I'm not a
mechanical engineer, and have no experience with ICE's so this all
makes sense to me, whether it is realistic or not! 8^)
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
