Posted on 08/25/2014 10:16:16 PM PDT by AZLiberty
PR Newswire
MENLO PARK, Calif., July 22, 2014
MENLO PARK, Calif., July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — American company, Menlo Park based technology firm Solar Hydrogen Trends, Inc. (www.SolarHydrogenTrends.com) today announced that it has conducted a final series of control tests on hydrogen reactor Symphony 7A.
Photo – http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140722/129200
A follow-up series of tests was required due to the fact that the two previous series of tests had shown such incredible production of hydrogen in reactor Symphony 7A, that even most reputable scientific firms were hard-pressed to accept and/or verify the test results.
New test results carried out by TRC Solutions are even more staggering: the previous performance results of 79,000 liters per hour increased to 127 cfm or 215,800 liters per hour and the content of hydrogen in the gas mixture increased from 93.1% to 97.5%. Oxygen content in the gas mixture on the exit of Symphony 7A was twice lowered to 1.34%, indicating that the process of transmutation of oxygen into hydrogen in the last test was more active.
With this performance the hydrogen reactor can convert 1 barrel of water into 200 kg of hydrogen, which is energetically equivalent to 3 barrels of oil.
However, the most impressive result of this experiment was that the external energy needed to make these 208,678 liters of pure hydrogen fell by 20%; it averaged at 414 watt hour = 4.6 volts x 90 amps.
To repeat: In these tests, 1 barrel of water = 3 barrels of oil.
At the moment this is an absolute record for energy costs with “cold fusion” Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR). It outpaces all research centers, laboratories and universities involved in the hydrogen problem of (LENR) for 20-30 years.
The ratio of spent and obtained energy in hydrogen reactor Symphony 7A in percentage is 134,477%. Today, hydrogen reactor Symphony 7A with the size of standard suitcase can produce enough hydrogen in one day equivalent to 6.5 barrels of oil, at the mere cost of $1.68 per hour to operate.
Observers should imagine two economic possibilities:
1. Barrel of oil actually would cost $5.07. (When the market price on commodities exchange trades at $100 to $110).
2. With 50,000 Symphony 7D Hydrogen Reactors (units), such a quantity would provide 30% more hydrogen equivalent than the largest oil producer, Saudi Arabia, in one year.
Solar Hydrogen Trends believes that the most expedient next step would be if the United States takes the lead as global supplier of this technology, creating a consortium of willing countries, including oil and gas producing nations, which would then all become the co-owners of this groundbreaking technology developed by American company Solar Hydrogen Trends. Since the technology is developed and owned within/by the United States, all future sales and transactions of hydrogen will be made in US dollars (Hydrodollar) jointly with petrodollar.
In this scenario, the country members of the consortium could within 20-25 years accomplish the gradual replacement of fossil fuels with hydrogen. Over the years they could diversify their economies and avoid economic dependence and/or collapse. We believe that the hydrogen era is here to stay, cannot be stopped or slowed, and should not be considered as revolutionary but rather an evolutionary worldwide progression.
The United States is the first to enter into the hydrogen era – the new evidence of American exceptionalism – and this grand step forward is precisely what makes us exceptional as a people and a country.
Hakop Jack Aganyan
Konstantin Balakiryan
Founders, Solar Hydrogen Trends, Inc.
For more information on the hydrogen reactor, test results and the Company, please visit www.SolarHydrogenTrends.com.
If they were just talking about electrolysis, then the Second Law would preclude their result. But they’re claiming some sort of nuclear process, where oxygen breaks down into hydrogen, producing energy.
I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s fun to think about. Time will tell.
No, they claim they’re separating oxygen atoms into hydrogen atoms — a very startling claim.
If the inventors start dying of radiation poisoning I’ll take them much more seriously. ;^)
The relevant physics question is whether eight hydrogen atoms have less energy than one oxygen atom. If so, then converting one oxygen atom into eight hydrogen atoms will release energy — if it can be done. SHT (bad name for a company) claims it can.
It’s not a joke. It may be a lie — I don’t have enough evidence to know — but the claim is exactly as you said: converting oxygen into hydrogen, not liberating hydrogen from water molecules.
And there’s Alchemy too. Transmutation of Oxygen into a Hydrogen.
First, they don't have a way to use solar power to do hydrolysis, and don't claim to. They claim to be "transmuting oxygen into hydrogen."
Second, if we stipulate to a hypothetical [just for the sake of discussion] the process could actually be useful because, while you do lose energy in the form of heat in the process, that doesn't matter; the energy you've used to create the hydrogen is solar, so it's "free." The hydrogen freed by the process would be useful as a storage medium that Greenies would like, because it has "no carbon," unlike gasoline, which is essentially a hydrogen storage medium [also produced by solar energy] which releases carbon by-products on combustion.
Third. Despite what Greenies like, any process involving hydrogen as an energy storage medium is stupid (it is not a primary energy source on Earth, since all the free hydrogen on this planet bonded with other elements long ago or escaped into space.)
Why is it stupid? Because it has only about 1/4 of the energy density of gasoline when compressed and liquefied. A hydrogen "gas tank" would take you 1/4 of the distance without refueling. Worse, about half of the energy required to deliver hydrogen in usable form is burned up in the process of compressing the gas.
So, the Second Law is not the issue, because the hydrogen is produced via solar energy, and the energy available is "all net." Solar energy has to be stored somehow, and hydrogen "sounds good" as an energy storage material. But it isn't.
Summary: Even if it’s not a scam, it won’t work.
Ah, why didn't you say so? Here, take my money!
A joke because as a lie it's uproariously funny.
Fission of light elements doesn't produce energy, it requires energy. The protons in bound oxygen have a binding energy of 8 MeV per nucleon. Hydrogen has 0. That means you would need to supply 16 * 8MeV or 128MeV to "split" Oxygen. Producing, in addition to 8 new hydrogens per fission, plus 8 very high-energy (and very dangerous) neutrons.
Even if all the hydrogen produced were deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen with one neutron) you still can't make it work. For deuterons, the binding energy per nucleon is ~1.1 MeV. So in that case you would need to supply an energy of 8 * (8MeV - 1.1MeV) ~ 55 MeV for each fission.
How much energy is that in practical units? About 1.5 Gigawatt-hours to convert 18 grams of water to 18 grams of hydrogen. Not really feasible.
Grandpa Munster did it. I saw it on TV! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_pill
One US barrel is about 160 liters, which equals 160 kgs.
“...can convert 1 barrel of water into 200 kg of hydrogen”
Not only did they create hydrogen out of oxygen, they created about 40kgs of hydrogen out of NOTHING.
I’d like to see how that works.
Fissioning (splitting) atoms heavier than Lead (Pb) yields energy.
Fusioning (combining) atoms lighter than Lead yields energy.
Fissioning atoms lighter than Lead consumes energy.
Fusioning atoms heavier than Lead consumes energy.
That's why the Sun releases (rather than consumes) energy: It fusions Hydrogen into Helium.
That's why "Little Boy" (the Hiroshima bomb) and "Fat Man" (the Nagasaki bomb) released energy: They fissioned Uranium or, respectively, Plutonium (which both have Atomic Numbers greater than that of Lead).
So, to answer you question: Fissioning Oxygen into Hydrogen consumes energy.
Regards,
Kevmo?
Thank you for the detailed explanation.
Sure, American exceptionalism???How much “funding” did 0bummer give them for their campaign contributions???
Solar Hydrogen Trends, Inc.; ticker symbol SHTI? My leg feels pulled.
500 watts in 225 watts out. Hmmm
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