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[Dingus Mungus]

WOW! Great work RR! You've made a lot of progress in that reactor design since I last popped in. Amazing COP by your current measurements. I've been totally consumed by campaigning for the 08 elections, but I still hope to work on this project again in the future. It may be a while... LOL!

So I'm glad you're still thinking about the concept that brought you to this point. I know now that the idea is out there and this can't be stopped. Your constant improvements in reactor design and dedicated updates have spread this idea beyond containment. It's only a matter of time until you, Dr Griffin, or one of the others who have an understanding of this technology fully develop the first fully isothermal generator, and because its NOT a closed system of energy and the heat pool is regenerated daily, even mainstream physics can agree it works... Gibbs to watts!

Also may I suggest two pieces of future equipment and a possible variable in your reduction method... Infrared thermometer, and total dissolved solids meter. Using a base line TDS reading is an easy way to determine if zinc is building up. You can get basic a IR thermometers and TDS meters on ebay for about $30 each w/ shipping. Just a suggestion. As for the variable... When you wrote that both fuel cells measured the same load when used in reduction it leads me to believe that the distance between the electrodes (circuit resistance) is limiting your reduction speed. So if you can tighten this distance in the coming prototype I can assume a higher rate of reduction.

Keep up the great work... Your doing so well that you can keep up with Airgens press releases. Imagine that, a private open source researcher may just solve the problem, balance the equation, and poof it could go in to production. I have great faith we are on the cusp of a new renaissance in so many ways.

~Dingus Mungus

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[Dingus Mungus]

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[ResinRat2]

Thanks for the kind words Chris.

The reactor has been running for 100 hours as of 8:30PM tonight (US Central Time). There are many interesting observations that I have made and I learned a few things.

Right now the fan is steady and drawing 0.710 volts at 50.3mA.
The zinc generation draw is 0.252 volts at less than 0.02mA.

What is interesting is that I have been changing which zinc electrode regenerates once a day, and I can see the zinc regenerated on the bottom of the top electrode, or on the top of the bottom electrode. Exactly what I hypothesized would happen. The zinc is regenerating as fast as it is being used and it is avoiding the zincate formation. At least, that is what it looks like. That is why I believe the draw is so low. There is little energy required to quickly reduce the zinc back onto a zinc electrode.

I will put together a short experiment report soon. Meanwhile, the reactor continues its run. Hopefully for at least this week (month?, year?)lol.

Thanks for your interest.

P.S. Ron Paul has MY vote.

[ResinRat2]

Update:

The lower voltages and draw readings were caused by the fuel cells drying out. It seems that I need to make it a practice of re-hydrating the fuel cells (just misting them with water on the air side and flushing with a water using a syringe on the hydrogen side) at least once a day. The voltages went back up. Also I had a water blockage in the tube that joins the fuel cells. This I blew out.

Also, the large fuel cell may be slightly contaminated when the electrolyte solution overflowed the first day. I flushed it out then, but flushed it out again with water and seemed to help.

0.733 volts on the fan @ 50mA (small fuel cell)
0.803 volts on the draw @ 6.5mA (large fuel cell)

Sorry, these things happen. Just look at my motto at the bottom. I can't even count how many times during my working career that I made a mistake and it actually turned out to be a good thing that saved time. Not all breakthroughs are planned. LOL!!! Especially for me!!!

Back to business.

Thanks for your interest.

[motofox]

i understand the more draw on a fuel cell, the more losses occure in the fuel cell. So maybe many small combined versions like this would be better than one larger one.