At 13:07 -0400 4/18/10, Jay wrote:
By the late 1890's Poul La Cour was burning hydrogen and oxygen, seperated by wind-generated electric power, with zirconium to light the Askov, Denmark high school where he taught.
?? There must have been some trick? H2 + O2 give a blue flame that produces almost no visible light. If there were some salt mixed in, the sodium line in the yellow would have made it nice and bright, or if there was a mantle or something a la Coleman lanterns, that would have worked.
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