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The Phantom wrote:
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> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:10:14 -0700, Don Lancaster <don@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> >BobG wrote:
> >> Come on Paul... You and Don talk in a very dense code... fill me in...
> >> this is bogus because its a rehash of Brown's Gas? Some guy won a
> >> Darwin award for blowing is britches off with a batch of Brown's Gas?
> >> If this is an elaborate charade, it seems pretty well done at first
> >> glance.
> >>
> >
> >It ain't even close.
> >
> >Even at a casual glance, to me the site immediately raises fundamental
> >thermodynamic violation and similar questions. I would strongly expect
> >the same reaction from anyone else reasonably trained in science,
> >chemistry, or engineering.
> >
> >It is exceptionally easy to mismeasure hydrogen temperatures because the
> >emissivity lies primarily in the ultraviolet rather than the infrared.
> >
> >The claimed 10,000 degree temperatures would seem exceptionally unlikely
> >to me. Similar claims were also a mainstay of the previous Brown's Gas
> >bogosity.
>
> I notice that it's 10000 degrees *fahrenheit* that they claim. A
> person could show up at one of their weekly demonstrations with a
> piece of tungsten and see if they can melt it.
Tungsten is easy to oxidize. A thoria lamp mantle,
if you can find one, would be a better test.
--- Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html --
boron as energy carrier: real-car range, nuclear cachet
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