[PSUBS-MAILIST] New Technology: Power source and engine

["Eliezer Rodriguez" <eliezer_rodriguez@hotmail.com>]

Hi;

I have always imagined to someday have or see a sub independant of  port
re-fulling more like the one in the Jules Verne novel 20000 Leagues Under
the Sea, and even as Captain Nemo said "The sea provides me everything" this
can be true indeed. But, looking at new technology breakthroughs, makes me
realize that it is possible in our near future for this to become a reality.
The main challenge I always forseen for this is to have a cheap, but
readilly available power and a more effective engine for propulsion which
has to be compatible with the power source.

First of all, when we think of the need for an everlasting power to move
around, cook, have lights and to power life support systems thesolution thea
pops up is nuclear power. Nuclear power is obviously far from our reach and
even the reactor's uranium has to be replenished. Obviously fosil fuels are
expensive and unless you have a oil rig refinery at sea the possibility are
zero. Hydrogen, even with its dangers in handling and storage, has
advantages as follows:
a) It is the most abundant resource in our planet (in fact, in the
universe).
b) Non-pollutant
c) Cheap (even though the process to have hydrogen and oxygen from water
isn't, the raw materials for the process, sun and sea water, are free).
d) Provides oxygen.
Technology still is trying to invent a perpetual hydrogen engine to provide
all of human energy needs but I just found today this link from a company
that sells a system in which produces hydrogen by demand which really could
be the first step to tame this energy source ( http://www.powerball.net/ )
The second aspect is to find a more efficient engine than can convert this
energy to mechanical or electrical use. Then, just by mistake I found out
that a new revolutionary engine has been developed and can be used for this
purpose ( http://quasiturbine.promci.qc.ca/QTIndex.html ).

Maybe is not far away the time when any of us could not only explore the
seas with our own sub but, able to explore beyound the limits of our present
situation.

Eliezer Rodriguez
"The only thing in life to fear is fear itself."