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Re: jonnyk post# 239

Thursday, 02/22/2007 10:47:17 PM

Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:47:17 PM

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I posted this on another board but it is a good summary so I will post it here too.

So I spoke to an engineer friend of mine about efficiency of the H2 Reactor vis a vis other hydrogen generators (what I will term "old style" generators because I dont know what else to call them) and this is essentially what he had to say:
(Now I hope I get this all right because I am definitely not an engineer and chemical process technology is certainly not my forte).

- most of these hydrogen generators still use essentially the same "old style technology" as Faraday used one hundred and fifty years ago.

- the H2R as described and a hydrogen generator using the Faraday technology are two completely different technologies and cant be compared;

- Efficiency of an electrolyser is measured by quantity of energy used for producing one liter of gas;

- "old style" generator units tend to be rather large in size and produce only 0.50-0.75 liters of gas per minute;

- e.g. one old style unit, based on patent filings, is in that "old style" generator range mentioned above;

- at least one liter/minute of production is required to accurately assess efficiency so it would be difficult to really assess the efficiency of these old style units;

Now, combine that with what the H2 Reactor appears to be capable of: i.e. a rather small unit that is capable of consistently
producing over 3.0 liters/ minute, while consuming a mere 1.5 Wh for one liter of gas/minute.
And ... the next generation H2 Reactor to be unvieled soon will be capable of producing one liter of gas/minute with one watt-hour of energy.
From all of this I deduce that the H2 Reactor is at least three times more efficient than any of the "old style" hydrogen generators currently in use by hydrogen insertions companies.
Hope I got the science right. Pretty sure I did.
As I said before, you can not compare the efficiency of the H2 Reactor with the hydrogen generators being sold for diesel insertion purposes.
IMO