----- Original Message ---- From: R C Macaulay Howdy Vorts, Another link.. http://www.nextenergynews.com/ Richard
Way cool site for the inventive mind and those seeking alternatives to conventional methods ! Here is one such example of a product "announcement" (actual availability unknown) which has all kinds of potential synergy in alternative energy. http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news3.17a.html "Metal Foam" ... presumably this is a bit like taking "steel wool" to the next level. Following the recent update on the Kanzius method of RF irradiation of salt-water, yielding H2, any number of potential variations on that basic theme have come to mind.... allways looking for possible synergy. One such potential hybrid - alluded to earlier, would combine both the normal DC electrolysis of salt-water, presumably at lower than normal voltage, but in a cell which is simultaneously pumped with RF. A major goal of any kind of ultra efficient electrolysis might involve maximizing HOOH at the anode, instead of O2. The Kanzius method might facilitate this- and might be itself facilitated (boosted) if there was an imposed electric field, in addition to the near field of the salt ions which are being "jiggled". This would be under the unproved assumption that at very low voltage, perhaps well under one volt, peroxide and H2 can be formed at the same Faradaic rate as in H2 and O2 in a normal cell. Most experts in electrochemistry firmly believe that goal this is not achievable - since, in its ultimate form, it would seem to violate the LoT. That is not necessarily the case, if the process can remove ambient heat. But here again the balance which would be demanded - of adding energy in the form of both RF and DC and at the same time actively removing heat from an operating cell at a rather high rate, seems equally insurmountable to most experts. The "current" which flows in such a cell which would normally produce heat, instead removes it- and as such falls under that nebulous terminology of "cold" electricity. There is some reason to believe, however, that so-called "displacement current" can be engineered to remove heat and as such can be identified as "cold". Even though they are 'probably' correct ... the possibility is worth exploring IMHO. Fortunately few of that mentality frequent this forum or they would jump on this suggestion with merciless vengence. Jones BTW: The inimitable James Clerk Maxwell invented the concept of "displacement current," dD/dt, in order to make Ampère's law consistent with conservation of charge and other small details which prop up the LoT. His original interpretation was as a real movement of charge, but with correspondence to dipole charges in the "aether." Although the geniuses who followed Maxwell have abandoned the "aether" as a fiction, this original interpretation may be more valid than they ever imagined. That is: as soon as some "uneducated" inventor, who doesn't know better, can demonstrate a robust cell which both produces hydrogen at "impossible" rates and also removes ambient heat to retain thermodynamic neutrality- we will be left with the only option to return to Maxwell while redefining "aether" to accommodate a certain kind of "nano-lever" which is now known as the Casimir force.
