JUST A THOUGHT

[weggl]

What do you think of this idea? Probably idiotic but maybe it’s possible. If we could get hold of those plasma spark plugs “Firestormâ€

[Dan Dan]

I sorda thought about that when I first heard of the firestorm sparkplugs. I spoke with the guy who made the spark plugs, and he told me of some random store in Michigan where I could get them. I've moved away from michigan now and never took the action to get the plugs. I'm not sure if he's still selling them or not. But I think it's a good idea. personally i doubt if you even need the HO booster. I'd probably work just fine with only the water vapour injector.

I did test, a while ago, if a spark plug had enough voltage to seperate the water and explode it at the same time (type in "Under water spark" to google videos). I put a lawn mower spark plug in water, while still connected to the mower, and pulled the cord to generate a spark. nothing happened. it was tap water and I still havent tried it with salt water, but thats the next step. the lawn mower spark generated about 40KV (estimated). so I have no clue what the firestorm spark plug produces. but that is critical to its working

[Orange_Crusader]

Sorry if I'm missing something simple here, but how does the water (assuming plain water) ignite, exactly?

[glenn_aircooled]

I think they are hoping the plasma arc is of such furiosity that it splits the
water into hydrogen and oxygen. Then also ignites the " now " gasses.
If you are able to do this .... I would think that it would at least have to be as a water vapour allow the arc to form. The original idea on this thread is similar to
Herman's - from what I can gather of what he did.
I like the idea , Warren knows that , and I really hope some one can test out
some plugs like the FireStorm to do this experiment.
Glenn.

[weggl]

Crusader Orange
That name sounds Irish? (Northern)
Check out steam explosions on Google.
There have been many accidents practically on ships where super-heated steam has ignited.

[Dan Dan]

[weggl]

[Dan Dan]

hey... I had to wright it in a hurry. I'll rephraze it:

the main objective is to have normal tap water injected into the cylinder, and normal tap water returning as exhaust. The hard part is figuring out what needs to occure inside the cylinder.

there.

any ideas?