Water split with nano alu powder

[abbhawk]

Dont think this info hit this site yet so here it goes...

https://www.army.mil/article/191212/army_discovery_may_offer_new_energy_source

They take 1kg of nano alupowder (?) and make 220kwh in 3 minuttes.

[fritznien]

Dont think this info hit this site yet so here it goes...

https://www.army.mil/article/191212/army_discovery_may_offer_new_energy_source

They take 1kg of nano alupowder (?) and make 220kwh in 3 minuttes.

read the article again. 220 kilowatts not kwh.there claim to fame is the speed of the reaction without catalyst.

[abbhawk]

I guess you are right, sorry i did not realize the diffrence, i think i understand your point. Now im a bit confused why they measure it like they do. Why do they just measure it for 3minuttes output? I hear of alu solder in the 1950ties that produced HHO for more than 7 years before owner mention it. Why is this powder only working/measured for 3 minuttes? Did they test 1 gram for 3 minuttes where they made 73.33watt per minutte?

I cant find this alu solder from the 50ties again, but im sure i read about it at www.free-energy.ws it is just like they delete info about it.

[Paul-R]

I guess you are right, sorry i did not realize the diffrence

Don't worry; they probably don't either. Technical journos often don't know their stuff. It is ambiguous.

- but interesting.

I wonder if they have taken out a patent. I can't find a patent under "nanomaterial" that I can recognise:

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=ttl%2Fnanomaterial&d=PG01

either granted or an application. But there is an application under the name of the scientist mentioned in that article, Anit Giri, for the manufacture of nanomaterials and an address:
http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=20050258149


Its a start but I fear a military blackout may be looming.

[pomodoro]

We all get tricked by men in white labcoats boasting about their inventions and how great and wonderful the world will be.   I still do with some electrical stuff but not with chemistry.
This video is not showing anything great at all.

The aluminum powder is not producing any oxygen. It is reacting with water , forming a waste product of some form of  aluminum hydroxide. Only hydrogen is produced. The only thing they managed to do is to make the metal so fine that it reacts quickly.
Aluminum that is freshly sanded, forms a protective layer and will normally react for only a very short time  with pure water.

Hydroxide or acids are not catalysts at all but dissolve the protective layer and react with the metal itself, again producing hydrogen only and waste.


Those dicks know they are not telling the whole truth, and let this be a lesson to all - Anyone is capable of making up bullcrap and getting attention, funding, saving their lab from being shut down blah, blah, blah.

If you still don't get it, all they did is to make very fine aluminum powder, that needs to be kept under an inert gas, and they quickly dump it in water to create only hydrogen and a  lovely discussing grey soup of waste. Total BS about making both oxygen and hydrogen.

Ciao