11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
11:31 a.m.
I have a friend who makes custom flutes (draws his own silver tubing,
etc.) and uses a water torch. But the thing uses potassium hydroxide
(very caustic) to improve ionization and the rig draws about 13A at
240V to produce a fairly small flame. For him, it's probably ideal
I only saw the unit briefly, I knew I couldn't afford it (and didn't
really need it). You may well ahve added soemthig nto the water to
improve codnuction -- something that itself would not produce any other
materieals at the electrodes. KOH or NaOH would seem suitable.
I rememebr it ran fro ma notmal UK mains socket (which happens to be
240V, 13A :-)). I have no idea how much current it drew.
It's the waste of good human intellect and effort
that bothers me.
:-(
Witness how many people jumped on Fleischman and
Pons' bandwagon.
When I was doing research at Bristol, we had a local school student for
work experience. She had a quiz set by the school, and one of the
questions was 'What were Pons and Fleischman famous for' (this was just
after the announcement of Cold Fusion'). My reply which got a good
laugh from all concerned was 'making a right ass of themselves'...
-tony