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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:03:09 -0000, pv+usenet@xxxxxxxxx
(Paul Vader) wrote:
>"BobG" <bobgardner@xxxxxxx> writes:
>>Come on Paul... You and Don talk in a very dense code... fill me in...
>
>I admit that I first heard the term "Brown's gas" on Don's website, but it
>lead to some really entertaining google searches. After you read a few
>sites like that, they all sort of follow the same pattern:
>
>1) New thing! Really cool! Could change the world!
>2) Mix water and an electrolyte, add electricity, collect magic gas.
>3) Magic gas is really powerful, see! *BANG* Hey, where's my eyebrows? And
> what's my car doing hanging off the top of that tree?
>
>>this is bogus because its a rehash of Brown's Gas? Some guy won a
>
>It's bogus because it claims that the output of electrolysis is 'stable'.
>It's the opposite of stable. It's "Dude, where's my house?" unstable.
>
>>Darwin award for blowing is britches off with a batch of Brown's Gas?
>
>I haven't found the exact account that Don refers to, but the story is
>basically that some guy out in the desert managed to nearly launch his
>garden shed into orbit while experimenting with this 'magic' gas.
>
Sort of, but not quite.
Here's the archive info if you want to look it up:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.energy.hydrogen/browse_thread/thread/7eff72331d95d5ce/c77ee9238441a858?lnk=st&q=aethergas+group:sci.energy.hydrogen*+author:hannon&rnum=4&hl=en#c77ee9238441a858
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>Michael Hannon Dec 4 1997, 3:00 am show options
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>Date: 1997/12/04
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>Here are some "before and after's" for an Aethergas welder I built,
>with which I was cutting 3/16" stainless steel, when the torch tip
>melted, causing an open hole and reduced pressure in the line -
>a sure combination for a backflash.
>After: members.com/~ohannon/af">http://members.com/~ohannon/af ter.jpg
>That red thing in the back is a 7-gal steel air tank which exploded,
>completely blowing off its bottom (that steel piece right in front of
>it)
>in the process, and shooting it at high velocity into the next door
>neighbor's garage wall, where it punched a hole, and bounced back about
>20 feet.
>You will notice as well that a steel plate (right of the air tank)
>which was held by 8 ea 5/16 nuts on all-thread was also blown off the
>end
>of the gas generator itself (left side of picture),
>slicing through my knee on its way, at high velocity, to a final
>destination
>at the far wall of my building.
>Before: members.com/~ohannon/be">http://members.com/~ohannon/be fore.jpg
>The blast was heard several miles away.
>Contrary to popular wishes within the "science staff" here,
>rumors of my painful death have been grossly exaggerated.
>OHannon
Michael lost much of his zeal for Brown's gas after that,
and went on to other similar, but somewhat less dangerous
interests.
Regards,
Bill Ward
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