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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
Due to their sizes, ships are easier to implement such experimental devices. Time will tell if this tech will mature soon enough to fit into a car or motorcycle.
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You do recall MIT's plasma fuel reformer?
There they increased the catalyst surface area by getting rid of the catalyst completely and replacing it with 'airborne' electrons and ions...
Cant beat that for surface area!
It worked so well that shell companies were created to buy out the patent holding company and shelve the reformer!
That happened at around the time that someone said: "Why just send fuel through it? Why not add some water/steam too? and did. Try and find THAT paper now.
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https://library.psfc.mit.edu/catalog...ja014_full.pdf
NB that waste exhaust heat was added before gasses were sent to the MIT reformer.
It simply added the last bit of temperature and that vast 'catalyst surface area'.
NB that the reformer itself was nothing more than giant spark plug of sorts and simple to make...