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Roy McAlister, President of the American Hydrogen Association, has reviewed Dr. Santilli's claims and scientific papers, and has doubts. According to McAlister, Dr. Santilli is merely constructing new jargon and explanations for well-established chemical processes.
He says that there are explanations for the supposed species of compounds claimed to be stable in MagneGas. Traditional chemical analysis, which has been repeated in labs around the world, indicates these supposed species can occur momentarily but would not be stable.
Rather than high-intensity arcing of input fluid, McAlister is a proponent of a low-voltage, low energy treatment of sewage. He cites a field of study called "Biased Anarobic Digestion," in which a low voltage applied to the sewage, provides electrical bias to enable the microbes to produce hydrogen instead of methane.
"That is a much more energy efficient way of producing hydrogen from sewage," he said, contrasting it to the MagneGas process.
McAlister decries any use of petroleum, including waste petroleum products, for the production of fuel. "Any petroleum should be used for creating durable goods."
In addition to its production being highly inefficient, McAlister said that MagneGas burning results in high levels of CO2 -- "which is not a direction we should be heading".
As for breathable oxygen, McAlister points out that CO2 ties up two oxygen atoms, and that plants produce O2 not from CO2 but from H2O. The CO2 is incorporated into the plant tissues and compounds produced in the photosynthetic process.
He says that a hydrogen economy would not result in a net loss of breathable oxygen. The H2O emitted in the burning of hydrogen (2 H2 + O2 --> 2 H2O), is converted by plants into O2. However, plants have not been able to keep up with the CO2 that has been produced by man.
McAlister attended a conference not long ago in which the issue of Oxygen levels in the air was the primary topic -- historically, and projecting into the future, looking at various scenarios. The conclusion of the conference, simply put, was that high levels of CO2 and other pollutants are what have been primarily responsible for diminishing the quality and quantity of breathable oxygen in the air. A hydrogen-based fuel system was seen as the best answer to restore air quality and bring oxygen levels back up.
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D. Allan Sept. 6, 2006 Last updated November 13, 2011 |
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