[PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: AIP [air independant propulsion]

["Michael B. Holt" <mholt@richmond.edu>]

Lew Clayman wrote:
> 
> Still... some chemist must know of another reaction which produces temperatures
> in the range of say 100-300 C (212- ~600F) without needing oxygen gas as an
> input.  Something that reacts with water maybe?  And hopefully does not produce
> anything horrible as a resulting output, and also does not attack the hull or
> do something horrible in the presence of salt.

How about hydrogen peroxide, about 93 per cent pure, and water? 
Oh -- that's been done.  

> I suppose that if such a reaction were known, using cheap and plentiful
> reactants, everyone would using it already!

It's this sort of thing that makes isotope reactors look like a 
good idea.




Mike