Re: Hydrogen gap

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Subject: Re: Hydrogen gap
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:17:14 -0700
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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What about just using a fan...  With a refrigerator compressor, you have the
oil problem.  There is no reason a standard muffin fan or centrifugal blower
couldn't be run in H2 just as easily as air.

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To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:39 AM
Subject: Re: Hydrogen gap


>Original Poster: "Mike Nolley" <mnolley-at-mail.slc.edu>
>
>
>>
>> Original Poster: ross andrews <sflourine-at-home-dot-com>
>>
>>         Yeah, alcohol can't be dried easily (copper sulfate leaves a ton
of
>> water in anything).  You could use kerosene - this is easily dried with
>> sodium metal (hard to get ahold of, tho).  Why don't you circulate
>> hydrogen through the electrodes for cooling then thru a water cooling
>> device in the same way they do in large generator?  Granted, larger
>> temperatures, but it still oughta work.  I think hydrogen picks up heat
>> easily..dont know for sure tho.
>>
>>         Ross
>
>   Thanks for this great idea--it simplifies the problem of having 2 pump
>mechanisms, one for the alchohol, and one for the hydrogen.  I had
originally
>thought that both the electrodes and the gap would use alchohol, but it
could
>be that using hydrogen to cool both would also be effective.  The problem
is,
>the hydrogen would have to move relatively quickly to remove the heat
>sufficiently--to do this I would either need a huge supply of hydrogen, or
a
>way of recycling it.  Would something like a refrigerator pump work?
>
>