Re: AlAg - Aluminum-Argon Fuel?

Craig Fink <WeBeGood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:16:46 +0000, Craig Fink wrote:

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:30:36 -0600, Damon Hill wrote:

Craig Fink <WeBeGood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:pan.2006.03.06.12.34.40.267422@xxxxxxxxx:

Aviation Week artical talked about Boron-gel, better yet Aluminum-Argon
AlAr.

http://www.navytechmatch.org/DOD/Patent/PatentView.aspx?id=5597947

Interesting, Aluminum-Argon, after the argon falls off (very nice
propellent), the aluminum is available to be burned with oxygen.
Preflably, from the atmosphere. I wonder if the reation AlAr-> Al Ar is
exothermic or endothermic? Exothermic would be nice, adding energy.
<snip>
Better yet, create the plasma in a super cooled cryogenic Argon bath,
where the Argon bath is a large enough heat sink to absorb all the energy
input used to turn the other substance into a plasma. This way whatever
Argon compound that is created has a better chance of not decomposing
due to elevated temperatures.

Would that work?
Surely you'd get very poor yield - the exploder element would be
confined by the liquid. (I don't off-hand know the compressability of
cryogenic xenon)

ISTM, you want a hot exploding plasma, where free atoms/microdroplets of
Al (Presumably the amount of energy you pump in to a given mass will set
the size) interact with Xe, while having as small as possible a chance
of interacting with Al.

Hmm.

I wonder what happens if you hit xenon with a really heavy ion beam of
Al.

How you'd do this would be interesting.
Perhaps a supersonic flow of cryogenic xenon, with the beam impinging on
it.

It'd be nice, as this would be a continuous process.

.

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