| Re: Warm fusion = free clean energy!
Look, say you have a 500 Watt engine with poorly designed airflow. If you machine the pistons and cylinder head to create areas where the air can swirl around more during combustion, the efficiency may well be increased, since the flamefront burns quicker and cooler, so less heat is transferred to the cylinder walls and down the exhaust pipe, and thus more energy drives the pistons and the engine has an increased output power for the same fuel used.
Likewise if you inject Hydrogen or HHO, or whatever, this will also (dramatically in the case of rather explosive Hydrogen so you don't need much) affect the wavefront propagation speed and the combustion speed, again possibly resulting in less heat lost and more power to the pistons for the same amount of fuel PLUS the additional energy from the burning hydrogen. (or maybe not if if takes the place of the normal fuel instead).
Anyway, your 500 Watt engine may see, say and increased efficiency of 10% which is 50 Watts. As long as it doesn't take 50 Watts to produce the very small amounts of Hydrogen required, you are going to have more power for free.
So, why haven't we seen engines on the bench under controlled experiments to see what these figures actually are in the real world?  |