<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>PS. </div><div><br></div><div>According to my book, THE FREE ENERGY OF BINARY COMPOUNDS (available at <a href="http://Woodgas.com">Woodgas.com</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>The Enthalpy of combustion of Al </div><div><br></div><div>Al + 3/2 O2 ==> 1/2 Al2O3. Delta H (C) = 178 kcal/mole = 745 kJ/mole. The MW of Al is 27, so this is 27.6 kJ/g or 12,527 kJ/ lb. 1 kW hr is 3.8 MJ, so this is 3.3 kW hr/lb. </div><div><br></div><div>Well worth capturing.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Reed</div><div><br>Dr Thomas B Reed<div>President, The Biomass Energy Foundation</div><div><a href="http://www.Woodgas.com">www.Woodgas.com</a></div></div><div><br>On Jul 12, 2011, at 7:51 PM, GF <<a href="mailto:gfwhell@aol.com">gfwhell@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font color="black" size="2" face="arial">
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">The other day I posted an article on this site concerning:</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Cornish Hydrogen Generator. Keelynet, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>which describes a method of converting</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Aluminum into its oxide and in the process cracks water, freeing up hydrogen for use as fuel for a light car.</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">By all accounts, using this gas in the place of any other fuel.</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Distances and the amount of metal used in this attainment were mentioned.</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">I was hoping for a reaction from one of the many “Energy Economists”</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Who lurk on this site, to respond with negative information regarding the impracticality and waste fullness of such a process?</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">I believe there is a large following on this site who are interested in obtaining electrical power using renewable energy, derived from carbon neutral sources.</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">They might question the economics and ethics of using a refined ore as fuel.</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Instead of chopping down oxygen producing vegetation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">In this respect I am a nonconformist. I believe most Aluminum is produced by Hydro electric power and, so the CO2 is not in the equation.</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">My second comment is harnessing a “free” supply of high temperature heat which is emitted from most Ice’s in the form of “Hot Exhaust”.</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">This is the place to install a reactor capable of converting beer cans into hydrogen as not too much energy would be needed to complete the reaction. Bubbling super heated steam through a molten bath of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">AL</st1:state></st1:place> would give pure hydrogen.</font></div>
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