I'm neither chemist nor physicist, but I did retain enough from school to have some serious reservations about this company and it's claims.
Note: I personally think that hydrogen-powered fuell cells are THE best bet technology for a permanent energy solution. I'd take a job evangelizing the technology if I could find it, and I'd buy a cost-effective fuel cell for home and auto in a heartbeat, if I could.
This unique gas is infinitely stable until it comes in contact with a select target media. Then it sublimates, causing a molecular surface exchange of certain elements, reacting with such excitation as to cause temperatures of up to 10,000° F, the temperature of our Sun's surface, which is currently the limits of our ability to measure.
1) I don't believe you can have a "unique mixture" of hydrogen and oxygen. Its just a mixture...two interspersed, but not chemically bound gases in the same space. Nothing special.
2) "Infinitely stable", simply because these are two stable gasses.
3) A 'select target media' would commonly be called a 'catalyst' by anybody who knew what they were about.
4) To sublimate means that this gas mixture instantly becomes a solid in contact with this catalyst...there is no way I am aware of to use solid hydrogen or solid oxygen in a fuel cell. I believe that getting either element to a solid state would also require outrageously cold temperatures, and a warehouse full of support equipment.
5) At 10,000 degrees F, the entire device (and probably quite an area around it, too) would become an uncontained plasma and destroy itself.
6) He may not be able to measure temperatures in excess of 10,000 degrees, but any properly equipped lab could. Furthermore, there is more than one way to measure very high temperatures.
Now, if you go read the 'Science' page...frankly it sounds like a bunch of hooey to me. This is not the writing of a scientist of physicist, or even a genious layman who has any real grasp of the subject he's talking about.
This feature alone establishes that the H2O Model 1500 Aquygen™ Gas Generator produces a "new form of water" that is gaseous and combustible! This is the first identification on record of the unknown chemical composition of Aquygen™ Gas, its relationship with the H2O Model 1500 Aquygen™ Gas Generator, and some of its applications.
Water in it's gaseous state is called 'steam'. Steam is actually a vapor, or aerosol (tiny droplets dispersed in atmosphere).
"Unknown chemical composition" ?? Of water vapor? This one doesn't even need comment.
Also, the variable character of the energy content of the Aquygen™ Gas is clear evidence that the gas has a structure other than a molecular structure, namely, that its chemical composition includes bonds beyond those of valence type
What other structure could there be? What are these mysterious non-valence 'bonds' he refers to? Nope, nope, nope...
The sixth important feature of the Aquygen™ Gas is that it bonds to gaseous fuels (such as natural gas, magnegas fuel, and others) and liquid fuels (such as diesel, gasoline, liquid petroleum, and others), thus significantly improving their thermal content as well as the environmental quality of their exhaust.
Bonds how? What is the nature of these bonds? If you somehow added hydrogen to another fuel, it might be more combustible, but this is nothing new. However, how can it improve the quality of the exhaust...you're still burning a fossil fuel!.
All you mechanics and gear-heads will know a little something about oxy-acetylene cutting. Mix flammable acetylene (which burns at a high temperature) with oxygen (which supplements available oxygen and increases the temperature of the combustion), and you get a good tool for cutting metal.
At best, I believe this guy has simply built a glorified electrolysis machine to crack water, which does not even separate the two component gasses. He then delivers it out of this machine, and you use the stuff just like any other flame-based cutting/welding process. Notice that most of what he goes on about is welding, while all other applications are referred to with vague generalities and techno-babble.
Oh, yeah. Take particular note that there is absolutely NO MENTION of the energy source that powers the machine in the first place...which doesn't addres the known energy-cost/benefit problem of cracking hydrogen fom water
Truthfully, I think this is bunch of pseudo-scientific malarkey that'll only make people more skeptical of the real thing.
Like I said earlier, I am a very, very firm believer in hydrogen power and fuel cells. However, this guy in his garage has not actually solved the two fundamental problems of a) an energy-efficient source of raw hydrogen, and b) a national distribution system.
Sorry, but based on this website, my bull***t meter is pegged.
I have spoken.
PS...I freely admit that I may have an error somewhere in my own thinking, but I'd bet money this one particular example is a stone-cold loser.
