Dear John,

Sorry,
I'm not a teacher...
You are going to have to go down the learning curve on your own.
The fact that FMC was refusing to sell you H2O2 because you failed to grasp
even the fundamentals of the safe handling procedures for H2O2 should have
been a clue to you however.

Now your mixing H2O2 with hydrocarbons and you think having some H2O in the
mix is going to make every thing OK? Here is a freebie: in the 1960's the
Air Force did a study on H2O2 decomposition to see why the 98%H2O2 that they
had stored in drums for long term stability testing were still slowly
decomposing. What they found was that water is actually a low grade catalyst
for H2O2. They found that there was however a stable form of water which
didn't act as a catalyst with H2O2, of course it's even more epensive than
H2O2 but the non reactive form of water is Heavy Water. I'll leave it as a
study exercise for you to track down the original research and find out why
Heavy Water is non catalytic.

Lastly, here is a puzzle for you: Why is "1948 angstroms" your potential
best friend/worst enemy?

As Always,

Jay Troetschel

"John Carmack" wrote in message
om...
"spacr" wrote in message
news:%PF4b.241388$cF.77683@rwcrnsc53...
The problem with H2O2 is that there isn't anyone currently working with
the
stuff who has even the smallest clue what they are doing. John Carmack
and
his people could save them selves a world of hurt that they are setting
them
selves up for if only they would sit their asses down and review the
literature. John, your going to get someone killed with your ignorance.
..

Jay Troetschel


If you are going to post something inflamatory like that, it would be
a reasonable courtesy to actually provide some specifics about the
"literature" that is going to keep me from "getting someone killed".

I have reviewed quite a bit of literature on peroxide propulsion, but
I am always happy to see more. If you have personal copies of
anything I haven't read, I would gladly pay a duplication fee.

John Carmack
www.armadilloaerospace.com