Originally posted by Cherryman
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it's a simple concept and in theory would be fairly easy to do, however as with all things the devil is in the details. I'll share some findings from my research into pretty much the same thing.
I was doing some of the calcs I came to conclude that gas flow electrification would be a problem.. surface charge on the droplet formation would in effect stop the process.
start with a high pressure gas, passing thru an orifice into secondary low pressure volume that contains a charged plate. as the gas passes thru, there will be an electrostatic charge picked up on the surface. electrical conductivity will determine the ability to be charged or neutral, and that upon atomization combined with the joule Thompson effect, the condensate droplets will carry a charge hetro/uni-polar on the surface. now if the gas does not form droplets and there is no surface area the charge may be determined or calculated simply from the molecule and it's bond, if there is a no droplet formed then the electrostatic effect would be greater in low density gas. the point of all this was a thought of using electrostatic charge combined with the thermal energy of excited gas to increase the efficiency of electrolysis.
an arc discharge thru water would difficult to contain, simplify the process and start with say the gas in a pressurized container and work out the end result desired, then work backwards toward starting from in this case for example the water.
electrolysis of water is step one, lots of ways to achieve that. step two is where one utilizes the gas in an accelerator, i.e. electron cascade, multipactor effect. oxygen is magnetic hydrogen is not, ionized hydrogen is a proton, a proton in a particle accelerator can be a dangerous p-beam. yes the voltages needed would put you on a 'list' stupid fast.
this is all based on linear process and thinking of external source voltage, that doesn't need to be the case, it's possible in theory to take the components and assy it into a self-powered system.
I suggest everyone who's interested in such stuff really do the homework on Farnsworth and electrostatic optics. read and re-read thru farnsworths mutlipactor patent, it's full of gems. I'm currently working on developing quaternions to work with electrons and magnetics. Eric mentioned that the Farnsworths son said his father said the key to unlocking the mystery was in hyperbolic functions and the electron as it relates to counter-space. It's taken me over a year to figure out how to even proceed with that.
counter-space algebra is odd enough, add in hyperbolic geometry and polar and Cartesian coordinates suffer in that vectors and versors with fields get all jumbled. quaternions avoid this 'gimbal lock', however the trick is in units and terms.
it's slow going for sure and frustrating as I'd rather be building and experimenting but without and idea of how to proceed it'd be a fools errand. I've dug up many who've tried and are still working on marrying quaternions to physics but there is in my mind a problem when they start with constants that were assumed or derived using false premise, the fault carries forward. starting from scratch is a massive undertaking.
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