Just some thoughts on microwave oven / air plasma / graphite and hho:
So it appears water can be split by air plasma induced by microwave oven frequency microwaves around graphite. The air plasma has high enough temperatures to decompose the water into its constituents. Whether or not this is useful information I have no idea but certainly an interesting topic.
some thoughts on how to do simple tests:
pencil lead is graphite, can be easily procured at stationary shops as refills for drawings pencil, also very inexpensive. Puting some of these thin cylinder graphite cylinders in a microwave oven should produce an air plasma around them.
Will water be split and remain split, or will it immediately recombine is a question to answer.
I dont think hard to experiment, for example, a thin glass tube ( say an eyedropper tube) could have some water put in it, then the graphite pencil leads also put in the tube. Once the water boils/evaporates the water vapour will rise, if the eyedropper glass ( or similar), has its cross section filled with pencil lead ( graphite), the vapour will have to traverse the small spaces between the cylinders, where the air plasma is.........it should split into hho.........my guess is it will immediately recombine to water and release quite a bit of energy.
So I'm guessing you will get some sort of visible reaction.
( I have not done this experiment as yet, but intend to shortly)
An eyedropper should be suitable as it will allow air to enter, but a small amount of water should stay inside the eyedropper ( small hole end down, eyedropper glass kept vertical).
Next thought:
lets say you have a longer narrow glass tube, you fill it with graphite leads, right across its cross section, but at intervals, so as the water vapour rises, it gets split/recombines, the rises to the next graphite leads and does the same over.
Will there be a way to split the hho and keep it split rather than recombine, I suspect there will be a way to do it, once the water is split at the graphite/air plasma region, the intense heat/energy of the plasma, should shoot off h and o away from the plasma, if it doesn't hit the plasma again it might remain split........how to achieve that I"ve not thought much about.
( it might also be possible to experiment with ultrasonic water mist traversing the air plasma).
If the above experiments work what use is it? maybe no use but some thoughts on using it in a combustion engine anyhow:
This method requires graphite to create the air plasma, graphite is soft and slippery. Not likely you can use graphite inside a combustion chamber. So that means it would need to be located outside the combustion chamber perhaps in the air intake area or injector ports.
Just a thought: could microwaves be used to turn water mist ( small droplets) into steam, it would certainly be possible to direct microwaves into the combustion chamber. It could be done via the sparkplug ports, it would require some material that microwaves can traverse, that could take high temperatures and block off the sparkplug hole ( borosilcate glass?, fibreglass?, epoxy resin?). The magnetron microwave exit point ( output antanna) of a standard microwave oven might be able to be put directly in the sparkplug port and expoxied in place.
The wavelength of 2.45ghz is 12cm wavelength, when the piston is at bottom of stroke, the microwaves should bounce around inside the cylinder but will sparking occur as does if you put metal inside a microwave oven or will the microwaves just bounce around inside the cylinder?
Like a waveguide?
At top dead centre there will be less space, the microwaves should become more densely packed as the piston comes up towards top dead centre. But at tdc will there be enough space for the microwaves which have 12cm wavelength........lets assume they do.
There will be a high concentration of microwaves......would this be enough to turn water mist into steam instantaneously. The microwave oven components should only need to be powered for a short duration perhaps near tdc. I doubt any hho would be produced but if steam is produced it may push the piston down?????? Just a thought.
And what about using the microwave/graphite/air plasma method:
Perhaps a water mist could be drawn through some sort of graphite structure pre combustion chamber, in such a way that the hho doesn't recombine immediately.
I will post some info on microwave oven experiments with graphite/water hopefully in next few days.