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Team Canada I:
Gun-engine

Booth Number:
H81/4

Kazimierz Holubowicz (62) Holubowicz Institute for Advanced Studies, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Kazimierz Holubowicz

Abstract
This presentation deals with hydrogen generation from water that utilizes large solar panels as source of electric energy for electrolysis of water. Basically the hydrogen generation unite is comprised of : a space partly filled with water with a Cathode on which hydrogen separates and; a space partly filled with water with Anode on which Oxygen separates. Both spaces are connected at the bottom. The volume of the hydrogen space should be twice that of oxygen. On top of each space a vale to release adequate gas is placed. Both, Hydrogen and Oxygen are directed to the fuel pre-processing device of the gun-engine. These could fuel gun-engine alone or could blend with other fuels to enhance economy of a car or electricity generation.

A magic mileage 300mil/gal is real
This invention proposes a vehicle that could be fueled with a variety of fuels, including hydrogen. Its fuel consumption could be as low as 300 miles/gal of equivalent fuel. The words "equivalent fuel" should be understood as such an amount of fuel that would produce the same heat (when burnt) as one gallon of gasoline. The invented car is equipped with: a tank for liquid fuels that could be filled either with: a gasoline; diesel fuel; bio-fuels or alcohol (also could be filled with blends of some, or all of the above); a cylinder for gaseous fuels such as natural gas, hydrogen or bio-methane; a cylinder for liquefied gases such as propane or butane. Also, the car comprises a Hydrogen Generation Unite that uses a solar panel or panels to produce Hydrogen from water by electrolysis, so the invention is self fueled with hydrogen during sunny periods. In addition the invention proposes variety of vehicles including an amphibious and amphibious flying over water surface vehicle that utilizes the WIG effect (wing in ground effect) which improves lift

This presentation deals with the efficiency of engines.First it discusses inherited problems; handed down from one generation of engines to another and later it explains wrong trends in over century long history of development of engines, including the recent trends that do not deal with the inherited systematic blunders, so uselessly burn taxpayer money preserving the causes of inefficiency in engines.

Since diesel or gasoline engines are so infested with causes of inefficiency that any improvement is useless and only a different engine counts, the presentation proposes a gun-engine that converts heat, wasted through radiator in diesel, into extra work.The gun-engine is an internal explosion engine in which the radiator has been replaced with an internal cooling to preserve the heat.

In addition the heat is converted into extra work and that quadruples the efficiency over that of diesel engine. That indeed cuts the fuel consumption in 80%, which cuts GHG emissions in 80%. In contrary to current trend that rather slow down energy release from fuel the gun-engine uses acceleration of energy release to increase power from the same fuel. That relates directly to the definition of power that is energy release in time.

The gun-engine, by deign, destines to explode fuel, therefore the best fuel is Hydrogen. The 80% efficiency makes the gun-engine a better alternative to 50% efficient fuel cell. Yet its fueling is no limited to hydrogen, therefore it is the best alternative to the transient period, when hydrogen infrastructure is not completed.

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