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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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February 15, 1992
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COTTELL.ASC
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This file is shared with KeelyNet courtesy of
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Tom Brown, Director of Borderland Sciences.
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The Journal of Borderland Sciences has been in
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active publication since 1945.
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It is an excellent quarterly magazine with subscribers worldwide.
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If you might like to subscribe, please mention that you heard of
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Borderland from either Vangard Sciences or KeelyNet.
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Yearly subscriptions are $20.
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Borderland Sciences
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Garberville, CA
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95440-0429 USA
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BSRF - Jul/Aug 1974
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Originally printed in "Newsweek", June 17, 1974
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A Solution to Air Pollution
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"In the wake of the energy-crisis a 50-year-old British-born
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inventor named Eric Cottell has come up with an ingeniously simple
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and economically practical solution -- one that is now exciting
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industry and government officials alike.
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"In the conventional combustion process, fuel is combined with air
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and turned. The result is carbon dioxide, water vapor and heavy
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oxides of nitrogen, which are a prime cause of chemical smog.
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Cottell reasoned that if water could largely replace air as a source
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of oxygen in combustion, this would avoid the large amounts of
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nitrogen introduced by the air -- and thus eliminate much of the
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noxious nitrogen oxides.
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"To accomplish this, he turned to a device he had patented 22 years
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ago -- an ultrasonic reactor that emulsifies heavy liquids and is
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widely used today to prepare such products as Worcestershire sauce,
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ketchup, cosmetics and paint.
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By refining the reactor, Cottell was able to break water into
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particles about one fifty-thousandth of an inch in diameter and to
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disperse them evenly in oil (or gasoline) to create an emulsion
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that was 70 percent oil and 30 percent water. When this emulsion
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was burned, Cottell found :
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(1) that there were far fewer waste products and
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(2) that the small water droplets expand on heating, then
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explode into steam, in turn shattering the oil into even
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finer particles, and thus increasing the surface area of
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the fuel exposed for burning.
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"Last month Cottell divided his time between Washington, in talks
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with officials of the Federal Energy Office, and Detroit, where he
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consulted with engineers working to meet the tight 1976 automobile-
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emission requirements.
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So far, auto tests have shown that with an ultrasonic reactor
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attached to a carburetor, a car can get almost DOUBLE the normal
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miles per gallon of gasolinge -- with neglible exhausts.
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Cottell's company, Tymponic Corp. of Long Island, N.Y., is also
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about to produce units for home oil burners that will be no larger
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than a flashlight and cost $100 to $150.
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"Last winter, two Long Island schools converted to Cottell's system,
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and both reduced their fuel usage by about 25%. Adelphi University
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reports that it SAVED more than 3,500 gallons of oil per week! --
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and REDUCED soot output by 98 PERCENT."
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Vangard Note...
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This file points to a possibly useful technique for those
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working with water dissociation for the purpose of hydrogen
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fueled motors. The smaller the particle is, the less energy
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required to dissociate into consecutively smaller units. This
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is probably one of the inspirational sources used by Stan Meyers
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for his "fractioning" process.
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Ultrasonic generators can be both mechanical or electronic in
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nature. Transducers can be easily purchased with resonant
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frequencies ranging from 20KHZ to 40KHZ. Of course, that is
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simply where they are most efficient, they will still transmit
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other frequencies just as any speaker will.
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One of the greatest dangers in relation to hydrogen from water
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is the need to store accumulated hydrogen in some container,
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thus allowing the possibility of a "Highway Hindenburg." Any
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method of hybrid method that would create hydrogen at a
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sufficiently rapid rate, on demand, is far to be preferred.
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