Water Burner (easy to build open source)

[mscoffman]

@Terbo

I am pretty sure that this is not the welder he was referring to.

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It hard to say what is happening in any particular material. The
reason I say this is that hydrogen being the smallest atom/molecule
readily gets inside a metal matrix. Because of this, it makes it possible
for a torch to oxidize some of the metal itself to release additional
heat energy.

I believe certain catalysts and probably ceramics act in the same
manner to release energy via cold fusion. Those groupings of copper
tubes in that claimed overunity room heater, I think, acts in that
catalytic way.

It's no suprise that burning (oxidizing) metal can release energy.
But if the material is not consumed over time then the energy
release is most like due to cold fusion in hydrogen from the
water. That room heater is a good example of the need to
re-enter the cold fusion process because the energy gain from
one pass of cold fusion is often too small to be of practical
interest. By using multistage gain multiplication a useful amount
of additional energy may be acquired.

:S:MarkSCoffman

[mscoffman]

@oroshay

The TIG Tungsten Inert Gas welder business is very complicated.
If you don't believe it here is a .pdf manual chapters 1,2&3;

http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/TIGhandbook/

So the question about "Which model and manufacture?" becomes very
important. There are all sorts of AC/DC/Square wave/HF inverter signal
drive modes possible;

The other question is "Does one feed anything in on TIG gas line"
where the TIG purge gas usually flows? Bottled Argon gas could
get expensive.

:S:MarkSCoffman

[oroshay]

Additional Notes.

No Argon or CO2 gas is needed. There is no welding. There is no need for a welding gas shield to be used.

Think of the TIG machine as a construction unit rather than a welder.

To simplify construction of the Water Burner, I have used a TIG welding machine which has High Frequency start already built-in. I only use it as a readily available unit we can utilise for our needs. Electicity (from the welding machine) will flow more readily between the tungsten electrodes when HF is used to ionize the air in the gap between them. (this is how an arc is struck while TIG welding).


Adjust the welding controls (AMPS) to give a stable plasma flame whilst the water is sprayed between the electrodes through the ceramic tube. Ceramic tube is a large diameter Nozzle from a TIG torch.

There are two choices of construction:

First option (easiest):
Use a TIG machine which has High Frequency start built-in. The smallest and cheapest one you can find which has HF Start, will be more than adequate.

or

Second option:
Use a simple and more readily available, Manual Metal Arc Stick welder and inject a HF at the electrodes. Again the smallest and cheapest (MMA) Stick welder will be fine. Seperate injection of HF at the electrodes is nessessary using this method.

No welding gas shield (Argon or CO2) is used and is not needed at all for this system.

The Multiplaz 3500 posted above is not the welder to buy.

A small carburetor from a lawn mower engine or a small motorbike is ideal. Arange a gravity water tank and blow air from a variable speed vacuum cleaner into the carb inlet. Adjust the carb needle jet to give a nice fine mixture of water and air at the outlet. I used a pressurised garden water sprayer at first but couldn't control the spray. The carb/vacuum cleaner works fine.