Hydrogen
Elemental Hydrogen may hold a key for mankind to advance into using clean fuels. Achieving mankind's use
of elemental Hydrogen as a fuel is complicated by the fact that even though it is very abundant in regions of
space. Here on earth, Hydrogen is rarely found as a free element and is almost exclusively found combined
with other elements in chemical compounds. Thus, to obtain usable quantities of elemental Hydrogen, we
must chemically separate a compound containing Hydrogen to obtain the free element. This posses the
single most limiting factor in developing the large scale use of Hydrogen as a viable fuel source for mankind.
Chemical reversing reactions are known methods to release the free elements contained in a chemical
compound. However, with mankind's current level of knowledge, obtaining elemental Hydrogen as a fuel
source using a chemical reversing reaction is not a viable solution. This is because all known chemical
reversing processes operate with a deficiency of energy (more energy would be used to obtain elemental
Hydrogen than is returned when it is used as a fuel). Using current technologies a Hydrogen Economy can
not be achieved due to this deficiency. If Hydrogen were used as a fuel in an economy, with current
technologies, a greater energy source would be required to supply the energy needed to redevelop the
Hydrogen fuel supply. The economy would in fact be driven by that greater energy source not by Hydrogen.
In order for a Hydrogen economy to be achieved, the supply of Hydrogen fuel must continually provide the
energy needed to redevelop the Hydrogen fuel and supply the additional amount of energy needed to drive the
economy. So is the idea of a Hydrogen economy, posed by President George W. Bush (43rd President of the
United States of America), just folly or can it actually become a reality? At this time National Water Fund can
not provide a definitive answer to this question. The lack of ability to provide a definitive answer to the question
was a motivating factor in the development of our Hydrogen Electric Generating Plant research project.
Though the Hydrogen Electric Generating Plant research project initiated in April 2007 the precept of the idea
dates back to May 1981. At that time the founder of National Water Fund was an advanced Chemistry student
who went on to achieve honors in Chemistry. The precept was a response to a question posed during a gifted
and talented program field trip to a near by coal fired power plant. The question posed to the group of
students was: "In what ways do you think it would be possible to increase the efficiency of this generating
plant." The idea of young Mr. Ware's concept was to radically reduce the heat losses of the power plant which
would in turn increase the heat to rotational force ratio thus increasing the electrical output of the plant and
increasing the plant's overall efficiency. At that time, the unique and radical concept was found to be unable to
be adapted to a coal fired power plant, today a portion of the concept can be applied in carbon dioxide
sequestration. The entire original concept also yields a plausible design adaptation that may develop a highly
efficient power plant using a Hydrogen fuel source and the concept in its entirety remains unique to this day.
The resurrection and conceived adaptation of our founder's unique concept lead to a promising system
design. As the system began to emerge it became clear a viable Hydrogen fuel source would be the first
obstacle in the transformation of idea into a working system. Our Hydrogen Electric Generating Plant research
project thus began, in search of a viable Hydrogen fuel source. If a viable fuel source was achievable the
research project would advance into development of a complete working system.
of elemental Hydrogen as a fuel is complicated by the fact that even though it is very abundant in regions of
space. Here on earth, Hydrogen is rarely found as a free element and is almost exclusively found combined
with other elements in chemical compounds. Thus, to obtain usable quantities of elemental Hydrogen, we
must chemically separate a compound containing Hydrogen to obtain the free element. This posses the
single most limiting factor in developing the large scale use of Hydrogen as a viable fuel source for mankind.
Chemical reversing reactions are known methods to release the free elements contained in a chemical
compound. However, with mankind's current level of knowledge, obtaining elemental Hydrogen as a fuel
source using a chemical reversing reaction is not a viable solution. This is because all known chemical
reversing processes operate with a deficiency of energy (more energy would be used to obtain elemental
Hydrogen than is returned when it is used as a fuel). Using current technologies a Hydrogen Economy can
not be achieved due to this deficiency. If Hydrogen were used as a fuel in an economy, with current
technologies, a greater energy source would be required to supply the energy needed to redevelop the
Hydrogen fuel supply. The economy would in fact be driven by that greater energy source not by Hydrogen.
In order for a Hydrogen economy to be achieved, the supply of Hydrogen fuel must continually provide the
energy needed to redevelop the Hydrogen fuel and supply the additional amount of energy needed to drive the
economy. So is the idea of a Hydrogen economy, posed by President George W. Bush (43rd President of the
United States of America), just folly or can it actually become a reality? At this time National Water Fund can
not provide a definitive answer to this question. The lack of ability to provide a definitive answer to the question
was a motivating factor in the development of our Hydrogen Electric Generating Plant research project.
Though the Hydrogen Electric Generating Plant research project initiated in April 2007 the precept of the idea
dates back to May 1981. At that time the founder of National Water Fund was an advanced Chemistry student
who went on to achieve honors in Chemistry. The precept was a response to a question posed during a gifted
and talented program field trip to a near by coal fired power plant. The question posed to the group of
students was: "In what ways do you think it would be possible to increase the efficiency of this generating
plant." The idea of young Mr. Ware's concept was to radically reduce the heat losses of the power plant which
would in turn increase the heat to rotational force ratio thus increasing the electrical output of the plant and
increasing the plant's overall efficiency. At that time, the unique and radical concept was found to be unable to
be adapted to a coal fired power plant, today a portion of the concept can be applied in carbon dioxide
sequestration. The entire original concept also yields a plausible design adaptation that may develop a highly
efficient power plant using a Hydrogen fuel source and the concept in its entirety remains unique to this day.
The resurrection and conceived adaptation of our founder's unique concept lead to a promising system
design. As the system began to emerge it became clear a viable Hydrogen fuel source would be the first
obstacle in the transformation of idea into a working system. Our Hydrogen Electric Generating Plant research
project thus began, in search of a viable Hydrogen fuel source. If a viable fuel source was achievable the
research project would advance into development of a complete working system.
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