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USE MAGNETIC FIELDS TO MAKE HYDROGEN ©
Bob Brown

Economically feasible ways of making hydrogen has proven to be elusive, so all new ways to make hydrogen should be pursued. Researchers are urged to explore producing hydrogen by magnetic separation. Ionized water particles accelerated in a vacuum may be whip-lashed magnetically to disassociate the hydrogen and oxygen. 

This process has the advantage of using only water and electric power. If electric power is used to produce hydrogen on light load hours it serves as load leveler for electric power systems. Since hydrogen can be stored (as opposed to electric power) it can generate electrical power during peak use periods.

Three hydrogen and oxygen separators will be described. All three separators use the same basic idea. It is obvious that many configurations are possible and experience will favor some and eliminate others. Cascading of the following schemes may be desirable to improve efficiency. 

CAUTION: Hydrogen is very explosive. These devices generate hydrogen and oxygen which may accumulate and suddenly recombine. While that is dramatic proof hydrogen is being made, care should be taken that an experimenter is not included in the drama.

Hint: Ion beams are invisible. A shaker sprinkling tantalum dust on the beams will sparkle and make their trajectories visible.

CONFIGURATION I

Refer to figure 1a. A direct current conductor that contains two coolant paths had a slot between the coolant paths. (Braze two square copper conductors together on their edges. Before brazing, mill a small amount from one edge of each conductor so that a slot will appear when the conductors are brazed.) See Fig. 1b. 

Place the conductor inside a vacuum tank with an ionizing gun. Ionized water vapor is accelerated to pass through the conductor slot. Direct current in the cooled conductor generates a field that is strongest close to the conductor. The field at the top of the slot is in the opposite direction from the field at the bottom of the slot. As ionized vapor molecules approach the slot they are deflected by the conductor's self field. The molecules will be deflected in the opposite direction as they exit the slot. The resulting whiplash jolt will separate a percentage of the hydrogen from the oxygen. Individual atoms and molecules will now have a different mass and will therefore follow a different trajectory in the magnetic field. Collector funnels, appropriately placed, will create the tank vacuum and collect the separated products. See Fig. 1b.

CONFIGURATION II

Refer to Figure 2. This CONFIGURATION uses a vacuum tank, magnets, and electric arc like the early fusion research machine DCX-1 (except at much reduced power levels) developed at OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY in the late 50's. Harry Hoy provided the design specified by John Luce.

Two magnets on the same centerline generate a field between them. Accelerated vapor in the plane between the magnet pair is deflected by the magnet field. The vapor molecule is disassociated when it passes through an high direct current arc that is on the center line. The hydrogen, oxygen, and leftover water is collected in the same fashion as described in CONFIGURATION I.

Figure #2. For larger display click on figure.

CONFIGURATION III

Refer to Figure 3. This configuration uses magnets in a vacuum tank as in CONFIGURATION II. An ionizing accelerator is not needed in this configuration. The direct current arc is hollow. The vapor exits from a vortex tube mounted inside the arc. The vapor particles exit the vortex in a plane that is near the mid-plane, but not on the mid-plane, between the magnets. The only escape for the particles is through the hollow arc. The molecules will be separated when they pass through the ionizing arc. By not being exactly in the mid-plane the magnet field will divert particles into different trajectories for the various collecting rings The product will come from all around the circumference of the arc. 

Figure #3. For larger display click on figure.

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