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Posted by Karl on January 4, 2009, 7:48 pm
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>>I was wondering about hydrogen gas used as the fuel for a gas stove? Has
>>it
>>ever been done? Gas is a better cooking fuel but if solar power ever got
>>cheap and it looks like it could happen, I for one would prefer to use gas
>>for cooking. So one should be able to use solar electricity and make
>>hyrdogen for a gas stove.
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>>Yeah I know electric stoves work fine. I just prefer gas. I'm just
>>curious
>>if this has been done or how feasible it is.
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> Of course it's been done. I've done it myself. OK, I was using a
> hydrogen/oxygen fire that I used to work quartz with but I did, in fact
> cook a
> pot of chili :-) I ran the flame with almost no oxygen and still it was
> hard
> to keep from burning the food. Hydrogen is HOT.
>
> Hydrogen is a cantankerous fuel. It's combustion velocity and range of
> flammability is so high that it just LOVES to flash back into the burner
> itself. The gas velocity has to be very high to prevent that. If you
> look at
> the burner holes on an acetylene rosebud burner, you'll have a good idea
> of
> what a hydrogen burner would look like.
>
> In some imaginary world far far away where solar AND batteries became
> dirt-cheap, I'd be cooking on either an induction range or a quartz
> burner.
> Both closely approximate the gas experience of concentrated heat and
> instantaneous changes in heat as desired.
>
> Here in my cabin where propane costs a fortune, I'm all electric even
> though
> I'd love a gas cooktop. I have an induction range for frying and other
> high
> heat applications. I love it. I'm thinking about getting a commercial
> version that will work with both aluminum and cast iron/steel pots. My
> civilian-grade one will not work with aluminum.
>
> Only problem I've ever had was cracking two different fajita pans. Both
> split
> from the center to one rim, obviously from the magnetic forces involved in
> the
> huge circulating current in the cast iron. Sounded like a pistol shot.
> No
> problem from any other type of utensil.
>
> John
> --
> John De Armond
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> Tellico Plains, Occupied TN
> If stupidity hurt then they'd be putting morphine in the water supply.
>
What's a 'quartz burner'? I know about induction burners. They are nice
but EXPENSIVE! I was just thinking if in sometime in the future electricity
is real cheap but we still liked gas could we use hydrogen in an adapted gas
range of today.
Propane has issues too. It's heavier than air so you could have a leak and
the room could have loads of it at your feet and you would never know
until....
I just wanted to know what would need to done to gas ranges we see today in
stores to make them or future version hydrogen gas capable.
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