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I was lurking around the internet after watching Irish Fixits oxy acetelyne cutting videos, and came across oxy-gasoline and oxy-hrydrogen fuel. just woundering if any of you have used these fuels before and care to elaborate?
Reply:Oxy/gasoline cutting systems have been discussed fairly extensively at various times here. Try a search on "Petrogen"  or "Gasoline torch" ..No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan
Reply:I tried to get some comment about oxy hydrogen but came up empty a few months ago in the oxy fuel sticky thread in this section.  I was more wondering about seeing the line of cut than anything else.  Hydrogen seems the fuel of choice for under water use and in general is quite exploseve/dangerous from what I gather. It is very light though so certain types of accidents might not be as bad as one might think.  Years ago the hydrogen future was going to be storing it in mineral caqlled hydride I think sort of like the way acetylend is dissolved inside the tank  you get now.  Things changed to ultra high pressure cylinders and liquid and I see that as inherently inefficient.  No telling what time will produce.  It is supposed to be possible to pretty directly make hydrogen from water in a breeder reactor.  This country for bomb making side product rasons had chosen to leave the breeder reactor in the shut down mode from what I understand.One thing to examine is the relative amount of heat in the inner flame vs the outer flame of the various fuels.  Acetylene and natural gas seem to be the extremes.Fran