More hot hydrogen

["Crispin" <crispin@newdawn.sz>]

Dear Tom

>Now all we have to do is find a ready source of hydrogen at a cost
< triple that of any other fuel

I believe he has solved the hydrogen availability problem rather
brilliantly. I do not have a fuel equivalent cost.

>If we are talking a heat engine with < 60% efficiency, disposing of the
>other 40% heat will still take a car sized radiator for 130 + HP.
>That's a LARGE CPU fan!

Of course!  It IS a vehicle engine, not a fan!

>Hydrogen has been highly touted since about 1970 when the
>"Hydrogen Economy" was touted as the answer to what fuel
>to use ....

Well, an old man has finally come up with an amazing device.  I am
impressed, anyway.  He is 87 years old, BTW and many years ago invented the
zinc-air battery.  He used a huge one to drive several hundred kilometers in
a modified Bentley in the 40's. In case you think that electric cars are
something that has not been demonstrated decently and that the oil powered
car industry is not machinating in the background to prevent them
'arriving', he sold the patent on the zinc-air batter to the largest
lead-acid battery company in the world for 15 million pounds in 1953 and
they promptly buried it, nearly forever.  Recently someone in Korea claims
to have invented (and patented) a marvellous new zinc battery which is
exactly the same one he build in the 50's.

I will ask him what actual power he is getting out of the engine at its
current stage of development.

Regards
Crispin the eye witness


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