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Alkane Files for Patent on New Synthetic Fuel
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| 4/13/2010
| SOURCE: Alkane, Inc. PR
Posted on 04/13/2010 7:03:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: TChris
An invention need not work to be patented, AFAIK. And all they've done is file for a patent. Getting one approved is much tougher.
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posted on
04/13/2010 8:19:43 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: babygene
You can split hydrogen and oxygen and burn the hydrogen again.
YES, that is absolutely possible.
It is entirely possible to “recycle” atoms and molecules and burn them again. It is called “life” -—
The only question is: can this be done efficiently?
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posted on
04/13/2010 8:22:48 AM PDT
by
Kansas58
To: decimon
The first four alkanes are methane, ethane, propane, and butane... FIVE GOLDEN RINGS!.........Four calling birds, three French hens.................
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posted on
04/13/2010 8:32:27 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: Kansas58
“You can split hydrogen and oxygen and burn the hydrogen again.”
True, but to do it you have to put the energy back that was released when the H2 was oxidized in the first place... So what’s the point?
I’m not suggesting you can’t get free energy, but you can’t if your process depends on Newtonian physics.
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posted on
04/13/2010 8:33:21 AM PDT
by
babygene
(Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
To: kosciusko51
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, please call your office. Hah. Good reference.
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posted on
04/13/2010 8:55:38 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
To: Red Badger
Alkane, apparently a penny stock company, is engaged in hucksterism here. Quote from the article: “Our new fuel creates no such waste heat during combustion, but rather all of its energy is useful as mechanical energy in the engine.” Bullcrap. Poppycock. Nonsense. I’m telling you as an engineer with two semesters of thermodynamics under my belt that this is not thermodynamically possible. It MUST generate some waste heat, since you can’t thermodynamically convert 100% of the molecular bond energy into mechanical energy.
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posted on
04/13/2010 9:36:19 AM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
("It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." --Jefferson)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/13/2010 9:41:29 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
Someone is kicking themselves in the ass for paying $.50 when it's now $.0105...
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posted on
04/13/2010 9:48:14 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Kansas58
There IS excess electrical energy, in nearly every vehicle. No, there isn't. The maximum capacity of the generator requires an equal amount of energy via torque and speed. When less than maximium amps are drawn, less torque is required, less effort by the engine and less fuel is burned.
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posted on
04/13/2010 9:55:29 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Kansas58
The only question is: can this be done efficiently? If it was perfectly efficient, you could only get out what you put in. But in real world, any process isn't perfect, there is some losses and you get less useful energy out than put in, the balance is losses like heat.
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posted on
04/13/2010 9:59:25 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: backwoods-engineer
Yes, They MUST HAVE GAINED CONTROL OF THE FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE! THEY REPEALED THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS!..........
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posted on
04/13/2010 10:03:24 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: TChris
An invention need not work to be patented, AFAIK. I've got two patents, issued a while ago.
My recollection is that it has to be "reduced to practice", and disclosed in enough detail that a "skilled practitioner of the art" can reproduce it.
That's why the Star Trek "Transporter" is unpatented.
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posted on
04/13/2010 11:48:54 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Red Badger
..change, repeal or make an exception to the SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS.................... No problem.
The Won can do it by Executive Order.
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posted on
04/13/2010 11:51:32 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
Maybe they could just DEEM it into being..................
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posted on
04/13/2010 12:30:35 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/13/2010 12:34:27 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: thackney
... efficient?, that would be something called gasoline, always has been, always will be, even better if you don't dilute it with taxpayer subsidized corn sweezins’.!
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posted on
04/13/2010 1:55:20 PM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: Red Badger
==>”Yes, They MUST HAVE GAINED CONTROL OF THE FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE! THEY REPEALED THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS!..........”<==
They must have had a democrat super-majority. Makes about as much sense as anything else dems do...
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posted on
04/13/2010 2:58:58 PM PDT
by
MainFrame65
(The US Senate: World's greatest PREVARICATIVE body!.)
To: Red Badger
I'll believe this one when I see it.
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posted on
04/13/2010 4:05:57 PM PDT
by
El Sordo
(The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
To: justlurking
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posted on
04/13/2010 4:13:19 PM PDT
by
El Sordo
(The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
To: El Sordo
Wow, you're right. That one works much better.
I can actually type in my name and and it will find the patents that have been granted and the applications that are pending -- without getting it exactly right.
I'm going to send that to our CTO....
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posted on
04/13/2010 4:49:20 PM PDT
by
justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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