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To: chrisser; DUMBGRUNT
Of course, the devil is in the details...

Such as; buying and operating a iron fired boiler and turbine-generator. I doubt that anyone makes one. And of course you need an industrial water treatment system for your feed water. And you will need a High Pressure Boiler Operator’s license to run your system.

Of course you also need the equipment to reduce your iron oxide back in to iron.

You probably also need a mill system that operates in a vacuum to turn your iron back in to a powder. It is very likely to clump up during the regeneration process.

Yes, the devil is in the details.

This entire idea is a solution looking for a problem.

CO2 is not a pollutant.

44 posted on 11/04/2020 11:55:59 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac

co2 is plant food


54 posted on 11/04/2020 12:13:59 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Pontiac

More devilish details here:

https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/iron-powder-as-a-fuel/

All that high pressure/temperature equipment is expensive. And the stationary engineers are costly.

Nice when needed for industrial applications.

But I just want to grind up an old Chevy to keep my house warm.

Perhaps a pulse combustion boiler with ~110F out?
Would match nicely with the radiant floor and panel emitters in my house.

OK, that stainless cyclone looked expensive!

But, my brother has a beater in his garage that could be had at zero cost!

Henry Bessmer invented a process for manufacture metal powder over a hundred years ago, can’t be that difficult!
A fantastic story in itself.
https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/11187437/Sir_Henrys_Secret_Pot_of_Gold__Part_2.html


59 posted on 11/04/2020 2:09:22 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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