hydrogen launcher

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hydrogen launcher

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this is where i found the hydrogen launcher. you fill the bottle with the hydrogen and oxigen that you can make from electrifying the water and collecting the bubbles. keep a little water in it. and ignite the gas.
http://www.et.byu.edu/~wheeler/benchtop/hydropyro.php
the idea is to quickly compress the bottle without a bike pump.
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I don't think using an explosion to provide the pressure to launch a water rocket is any different than any other pyro rocket. It would be fun to experiment with but it's not the same thing as a water rocket.
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so you do know that it takes hours to get about 5psi of hydrogen. so this mite take even longer :lol:
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october sky wrote:so you do know that it takes hours to get about 5psi of hydrogen. so this mite take even longer :lol:
I knew it takes a long time but there was a device on mythbusters that could turn water into hydrogen at a fast rate and even the presenters were surprised it was so fast.

I think if you had a small volume to fill it would be faster than an hour to get 5psi too. Still not very useful if the volume is too small.
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Tim Chen wrote:I don't think using an explosion to provide the pressure to launch a water rocket is any different than any other pyro rocket. It would be fun to experiment with but it's not the same thing as a water rocket.
the rocket is still filled with a bit of water, the hydrogen isn't the fuel it's the compressor, the water in the rocket is still the main fuel.
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Brian wrote:
Tim Chen wrote:I don't think using an explosion to provide the pressure to launch a water rocket is any different than any other pyro rocket. It would be fun to experiment with but it's not the same thing as a water rocket.
the rocket is still filled with a bit of water, the hydrogen isn't the fuel it's the compressor, the water in the rocket is still the main fuel.
I think it's a cool idea and would be a lot of fun to play around with but I don't know of any competitions that allow this. Every contest I have seen frowns on chemical reactions powering the rocket and phase changes powering the rocket too. I don't think they even allow melting carbon dioxide ice for compression either. If anything it would be in a different class, like steam rockets or something.
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