Oh! forgot to mention. In the case of air compression something like 80 or 90% of all energy applied to it is "wasted" or converted into heat. Thats why air compression is so inefficient. However, thats a pretty darn efficient heater (not taking the efficiency of the motor into account).
Now, if you want heat energy that is greater than what you put in you need to check out this: http://jlnlabs.online.fr/mahg/tests/mahg2c.htm
There is an unexplained source of energy that appears when you heat hydrogen enough to break it apart; its normally diatomic. When the hydrogen recombines it releases more heat than was used to break it apart. There is no real explanation for this effect. It emits detectable amounts of radiation, but is safe. This technology is nearly 70 years old, and is not likely to be patentable.
Quote: Atomic Hydrogen Generator is based on a discovery by Irving Langmuir (1881-1957 b. Brooklyn, N.Y).
Irving Langmuir won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1932. His work on filaments in gases led to the discovery of the vacuum tube, gas-filled incandescent light bulbs (the life of tungsten-filament light bulbs would be lengthened by filling the vacuum with inert gas such as Argon), atomic hydrogen, and the atomic hydrogen welding process.
Langmuir's doctoral thesis in 1906 at the University of Gottingen in Germany was entitled "On the Partial Recombination of Dissociated Gases During Cooling". In 1926, he invented the atomic hydrogen blowpipe in which hydrogen gas is sent through a small hole through by means of an electric arc formed by two tungsten rods, reaching temperatures of 3700 degrees Kelvin (K).
Hydrogen (H2) yields two ("monatomic") atoms of hydrogen, absorbing 422 kilojoules in the process. The atoms of hydrogen then quickly recombine into the more stable molecular form giving off extreme heat. The hydrogen is therefore thought to be a transport mechanism to extract energy from the arc plasma and to transfer it to a work surface.
Langmuir showed in 1912 that hydrogen at low pressure in contact with a tungsten wire heated by an electric current is dissociated into atoms and is accompanied by a large absorption of heat (100kcal per gram molecule). He used electric currents of 20 amperes and voltages from 300 to 800 volts.
Quote: The Atomic Hydrogen Process, 1996 (Wm. Lyne, Creatopia Productions) indicated that the heat produced (109 kcal/gram mole) was 1058 times as great as the heat required to dissociate diatomic hydrogen (103 cal/gram mole as stated in the Norton Encyclopedia of Science, 1976, 5th Ed).
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