WATER AS FUEL

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1928, Page 7

WATER AS FUEL

SCIENTIST’S 30 YEARS’ RESEARCH

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

(Recd. September 27, noon). LONDON, September 27

Walter von Hohenau, a Brazilian scientist informed the Fuel Conference that after 30 years’ research, he had discovered a method of using water as fuel, at the fraction of the cost of present fuels, replacing coal which henceforth would be useful only for the component chemicals hitherto wasted.

Hohenau claims ability by high frequency electro-magnetic vibrations -to release large volumes by hydrogen from separated oxygen, at the expenditure of energy much less than the hydrogen would produce. One horsepower, expended by his machine, working on low vibrations, releases hydrogen generating 265 horse-power in beat units working at voltage ten to twenty-six. producing eight hundred thousand six million vibrations per second. High alternations would produce 779 horse-power, but he did not recommend it industrially, because the increase much above five millions decomposes the hydrogen and rendeis the water explosive. The plant occupies a small space. Existing engines and boiler can be retained owing to the adaptability as a gas burner. Hohenau is informing the AngloGerman Governments of his discovery, and will instal a plant gratis, charging consumers half the amount payable for the present power costs.