Linnard?s hydrogen on demand system without electricity !

[Pink Floyd]

Hey ResinRat,

New to the forum, this is quite a thread... Three or four days worth of reading.  What an exciting project you've got going here.  I'm glad to see you're maintaining your enthusiasm through your ups and downs.  Keep up the good work...

One question... How often do you foresee having to change your zinc rods?  It'd be nice if you were getting 100% regeneration, but it looks like they may have limited lives.

Sorry one more, haven't you proven overunity? Seems to me you have, with your 20 day test.


Pink

[ResinRat2]

Hi Pink,

You wrote:
One question... How often do you foresee having to change your zinc rods?  It'd be nice if you were getting 100% regeneration, but it looks like they may have limited lives.I believe that if the correct regeneration voltage is constantly maintained then the zinc will continue to regenerate indefinitely. As long as the oxygen is driven off, then the zinc should replate as pure zinc, not as a zincate. It is the zincates that kill the reaction. This means the zinc rods should not need to be replaced.

Sorry one more, haven't you proven overunity? Seems to me you have, with your 20 day test.The 20 day test did not prove overunity to me definitively. There was a mechanical issue that ultimately hurt the reactor output and caused zincates to begin forming on the rods. It could be that the reactor was regenerating the zinc but eating up the OH^- ions over time. This I have no way of monitoring because I don't have the equipment to do that. To prove overunity to me the unit needs to run with a good constant output of gas for months and months. That is what I see as a longterm test. I was very disappointed that it was damaged and the output dropped. This was my fault and a design flaw. It won't happen to this large reactor. The output numbers did indicate overunity, but overunity over three weeks is still not overunity. Not to me. In reality, I want to see it run for YEARS without stop and without adding anything else to the unit but water.. Yes----YEARS. That, to me, is definitive overunity. 


Thanks for your interest Pink, and welcome to the forum.

[FinEnergy]

Greetings from Finland  . I just came by to say hello to ResinRat and all others OU writers  .
I have just started my experiments on this Linnard Griffin style system and already getting some results! MANY thanks ResinRat for publising that final draft.pfd .
I'd like to tell little about my setup. My reaction medium, its made using resinrats recipe (without magnesium for now) and my anode is also zinc. But im using welding rods as cathode, inner part of it. I removed protective coating ofcourse and yes im getting quite good hydrogen production  . Pictures and videos about my expiriments are coming soon, when im done building my first "reactor" 

Cheers
Matias

[ResinRat2]

Hi Matias,

Thanks for letting us know you are trying something out. I look forward to your pics if you can post them, and any other details about your setup that you want us to know about.

Without the magnesium you will be using up the zinc much faster.

Please share with us any information you see that is interesting or relevant.

Thanks again, and best of luck to you.

Dave (RR2)

[FinEnergy]

Hi Dave
Yea I'll try to do finish up my prototype as soon as possible and trying to get magnesium colloid for reaction medium I also need to borrow digital camera from my friend. I'm hoping that ill get something done till end of this week.
Well as for my findings, I found out that iron that contains carbon (those welding rods or older drill bits) works as cathode but stainless steel did not. So i thought maybe it was carbon in Fe that did the trick I tried using pencil lead and burned wood as cathode, It gave some hydrogen but I wasnt able to compare output with iron rods. Handling those fragile pencil leads were quite big problem so I decided to leave them for now.
And I planning to build little microwave "gun" for heating reaction medium very fast, it uses only hand drill battery as power source. There is video on youtube http://youtube.com/watch?v=32OyUlpzht4 (have to be very carefull with that  )


Cheers
Matias