Ed Howes

Ed Howes


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Low Budget Super Power

It's 21st Century technology, invented nearly a hundred years ago. Isn't it about time to dust it off and put it to use? Near the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Nikola Tesla invented an amazingly simple vane less turbine engine which developed ten horsepower per pound of engine weight. By way of comparison, a modern factory high performance, piston engine makes less than one horsepower per pound of engine weight. Tesla... (posted by Ed 5 years 233 days ago.)
Water - The Perfect Fuel
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Do you suppose we must wait until every dollar of profit is wrung from fossil fuels? As a freshman in high school, I failed chemistry class due to an extreme disinterest in the entire subject. I do recall a demonstration in which the teacher hooked a large one and a half volt battery to a glass and wire electrolyzer that transformed water into separated hydrogen and oxygen. I would later learn that... (posted by Ed 5 years 233 days ago.)