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

[AndrePevestorf@aol.com]

In a message dated Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:45:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Lew Clayman <lew_clayman@yahoo.com> writes:

> --- AndrePevestorf@aol.com wrote:
> > honestly speaking... no idea!
> > maybe itīs possible to use the gravity...somebody should find out if a
> > pressed-thermit-stick can burn from the bottom to the top... 
> > the systems I know (for welding railways e.g.) ignite on the top. 
> > If the hot material allways drop down than it might be possible to control
> > the reaktion by control the lead of the sticks from the side...similar as in
> > a light-arc lamp...
> > (hope you understand my terrible english...)
> > never the less I agree that the output of the whole system will be not very
> > good...except you are able to make power direct by the reaction.. :-))
> 
> 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.
> 
> I suppose that if such a reaction were known, using cheap and plentiful
> reactants, everyone would using it already!
> 
> -L
> 
morning ,

in an old hobby-diving-newapaper from the 60ī I found an article about a heat-system based on the exothermic reaction Ammoninac(gas)  + water. The suggestion was to use it as a hot water source for the divingsuite
-A