[timer]

Been doing some musing over this. Years ago, just for fun, did the aluminum strips/lye-in-water/balloon number. It WORKS at producing H2 of course but how would it stack up against your Ga/Al/H2O unit in terms of initial cost for the system and over the long haul?

Lye is widely available right now, as is scrap aluminum; one doesn’t need to wait 5 years and pay $50K for a mass-marketed Ga/Al unit-system, wheather w/an IC engine or fickle H2/air fuel cell. This could be an item made by Mother Earth Home tinkerers, the same guys who do their own solar systems(the sun don’t shine in nuclear winter).

So, where does one find hydrogen IC fuel injectors?

[ghg2]

I told the group about lye when it first formed. Students
often do that with 2-liter pop bottles which usually gets the police riled up. Strong lye might be a problem in
a wreck if it gets loose or splashed on someone.

For hydrogen injectors, a propane carb should work with
minor changes. It may even be possible to have a carb
without a throttle plate due to the very wide ignition
limits of H2. Big volumetric effeciency boost.

I havent heard much on the glass BB’s to store H2
for a few years now.. anybody else heard?

For a nuke winter, biomass gasifiers make more
sense. They don’t need an infrastructure in place
to ship the fuel and recycle the spent fuel for
regeneration.

I havent been to a group meeting for 2-3 months.
I just volunteered for awhile to give ‘em a hand.
I have 3000 computers to worry about for my
‘real’ job...
—ghg