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Old Mar 14, 2004 | 11:18 PM
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I think the gas is created by decomposition rather than oxidation (flame) -- he notes the gas is 260 degrees Celcius which is actually quite cool -- certainly cooler than a rocket flame. Thus, it may be a pressure leak but not an actual flameout.

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Old Mar 18, 2004 | 10:26 PM
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meilers your right about the decomposition reaction. But I think in the video something screwed up in the turbine causing the equilibrium in the H2O2 decomposition to get messed up and extra H2 to be formed changing it into a combustion reaction. EvoHunter as far as H2O2 as a fuel, it only decomposes or combusts at extremely high concentrations. The hydrogen peroxide you have in your cabinet is at about 3%, the concentrations needed would be 70-90% (military grade H2O2 used as rocket fuel). At these concentrations it would be horribly hazardous and corrosive making it a pain to transport and store safely plus when exposed to light and I think even air it decomposes easily into O2 and water which makes it even harder to store.
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Old Mar 19, 2004 | 09:36 PM
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He's right, hydrogen peroxide is EXTREMELY dangerous in high concentrations, it reacts with almost anything and is corrosive and explosive.

You can run a piston engine on vegetable oil, kerosene, N20, alchohol, methanol, propane, liquid propane and even hydrogen gas -- none of them has proved as cheap and as easy to store (or as safe) as gasoline.

OH, and BTW -- if he had combusted H2, you would not be able to see it. Hydrogen burns with an invisible flame and does not make smoke.
Old Mar 22, 2004 | 05:08 PM
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Hydrogen peroxide is essentially water. Does this device use the H2 or the O2 when it decomposes? I vote for water being essentially, unburnable.
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