Not many people know that globally only 15% of aluminium soda cans get recycled. And that re-smelting them is technically difficult, expensive polluting and wasteful. At 400C the can lacquer breaks down into highly toxic dioxins and furans. Using them instead to make hydrogen and cleanly re-smeltable zero-carbon aluminium oxide is in fact a very green process, creating less than 4% of the CO2 emissions that Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) plants do when making hydrogen from natural gas, and the valuable by-product of very low carbon aluminium oxide produces less than 2% of the CO2 created by mining and refining bayerite for electro-smelting.
We have been working on a process to do this for almost 4 years, and are now upscaling it - getting ready to build a pilot plant. Here's the reactor we are building to run the process. It isn't LENR, but it is very low CO2 (COP of 8), exothermic and produces Hydrogen from stuff nobody wants- not even Coca-Cola. Now you know why I have been a little bit quieter lately... there's a lot of work gone into this. And still 20 data-catchers to fit.
Control panel.
Solenoid valves/secondary pump for heating and cooling reactor jacket and the extractor terminal /heat exchanger outlside.