Pappa, are you set up to try this?

[Cunt]

I don't know enough chemistry, or even enough about academic research, to know if this is bullshit or not, but it looks like a promising direction. It also looks as if someone could do this independantly (with reasonable equipment)

So does anyone have a crucible, fire, water and some time?

http://www.innovationnewsdaily.com/alum ... ergy-1975/

[Feck]

There is enough aluminum on the Earth’s crust to supply the whole world’s energy needs," Woodall told InnovationNewsDaily.

To make use of this aluminum, Woodall melts it and combines it with gallium, indium and tin.

FAIL Massive fail ! any energy idea that states there is loads of aluminum around hasn't considered the costs of extracting aluminum, nevermind Gallium Indium and Tin . That's like saying it's eco-friendly to run your house on batteries

[Gallstones]

But......rechargeable batteries.

[Mallardz]

Recharged with molten gold

[Geoff]

I don't know enough chemistry, or even enough about academic research, to know if this is bullshit or not, but it looks like a promising direction. It also looks as if someone could do this independantly (with reasonable equipment)

So does anyone have a crucible, fire, water and some time?

http://www.innovationnewsdaily.com/alum ... ergy-1975/

He reckons on 12.9 kW hrs output per kilo. It would take a lot more energy than that to prepare the alloy. A rough calculation gives that just melting the alloy would take about 3 kW hrs, and that would be the easy part.

Even using scrap Al, it's not worthwhile, no wonder he can't find anyone to fund it.

[Cunt]

I don't care so much that it is efficient, I just thought it would be fun to produce hydrogen in a unique way. As to melting the alloys being expensive, how about solar power?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJot9WKy ... re=related[/youtube]

[Feck]

It's not the melting of the alloys that's expensive it's the electrolysis to get the aluminium from the ore .


But I found this: White dross from primary aluminium production and from secondary recycling operations still contains useful quantities of aluminium that can be extracted industrially.[28] The process produces aluminium billets, together with a highly complex waste material. This waste is difficult to manage. It reacts with water, releasing a mixture of gases (including, among others, hydrogen, acetylene, and ammonia), which spontaneously ignites on contact with air;[29] contact with damp air results in the release of copious quantities of ammonia gas.

which sounds MUCH more fun !

[Svartalf]

There is enough aluminum on the Earth’s crust to supply the whole world’s energy needs," Woodall told InnovationNewsDaily.

To make use of this aluminum, Woodall melts it and combines it with gallium, indium and tin.

FAIL Massive fail ! any energy idea that states there is loads of aluminum around hasn't considered the costs of extracting aluminum, nevermind Gallium Indium and Tin . That's like saying it's eco-friendly to run your house on batteries

well, aluminum one side, galindium the other. (yep, the very same liquid alloy that you find in medical thermometers) ... given that I'm pretty sure that alloy was extensively experimented with before being put to the use common people may know it for, I'm pretty sure that an exothermic and current generating reaction with aluminum would have been noticed, and possibly exploited, if worthwhile, long ago.

Does that guy also sell bridges?

[mistermack]

Maybe this could be used in electric cars and trucks, in place of batteries?
You buy the aluminium fuel, and fill up with water at the same time. Then, when it's spent, it's part exchanged at the next fill for re-processing.

It might be as energy efficient as batteries, and less expensive initially.