Abstract: This disclosure is a game played with colored chips, which when played on a game board or flat surface, one chip at a time, create for each consecutive of two or more players, with his specific color chips, patterns of number, letters, or geometric designs, depending on the selection of which pattern type, as the game objective at start of game. Values are established for each pattern which determine the winner as the one who has constructed the most patterns and or their accumulated number of values. The game chips are preferably flat pieces of rigid or semirigid material, having multiple edges, such as squares, hexagons, octagons, etc. Each consecutive play by each player constructs "legs", that is, a group of same color chips in a row, of two or more, the combinations of these rows used to construct the specific pattern selected by the player.

Abstract: Coal is reduced to ash in place by gasification using in situ production techniques, resulting in significant void space underground, which in turn causes roof fall and subsidence. Overburden collapse is stabilized by backfilling with foaming mud cement that hardens into an expanded solid, which quenches and fills the production module and seals residual ash. Rubble volumes and subsidence cracks are sealed against water incursions and contaminated water excursions. Surface facilities above barrier pillars are protected from destructive forces of subsidence draw.

Abstract: Coal is reduced to ash in place by gasification using in situ production techniques, resulting in significant void space underground, which in turn causes roof fall and subsidence. Overburden collapse is stabilized by backfilling with foaming mud cement that hardens into an expanded solid, which quenches and fills the production module and seals residual ash. Rubble volumes and subsidence cracks are sealed against water incursions and contaminated water excursions. Surface facilities above barrier pillars are protected from destructive forces of subsidence draw.

Abstract: Coal is reduced to ash in place by gasification using in situ production techniques, resulting in significant void space underground, which in turn causes roof fall and subsidence. Overburden collapse is stabilized by backfilling with foaming mud cement that hardens into an expanded solid, which quenches and fills the production module and seals residual ash. Rubble volumes and subsidence cracks are sealed against water incursions and contaminated water excursions. Surface facilities above barrier pillars are protected from destructive forces of subsidence draw.

Abstract: Coal is reduced to ash in place by gasification using in situ production techniques, resulting in significant void space underground, which in turn causes roof fall and subsidence. Overburden collapse is stabilized by backfilling with foaming mud cement that hardens into an expanded solid, which quenches and fills the production module and seals residual ash. Rubble volumes and subsidence cracks are sealed against water incursions and contaminated water excursions. Surface facilities above barrier pillars are protected from destructive forces of subsidence draw.

Abstract: The survival of a patient with an extensive burn is dependent upon the ability of the burn surgeon to keep the patient in a state of positive nitrogen balance, of immune competence, and in equilibrium with the bacteria colonizing his burn wounds until permanent closure of the wounds is accomplished with autogenous skin grafts. Immune competence and bacteria colonization are controlled by the method of immersing the patient in whole are in part, so as to immerse the burn wound in an isotonic, dielectric, inert, halogenated hydrocarbon liquid, which is selected with a specific gravity greater than the patient. The liquid is kept sterile by absorbing therein ozone, along with cleaning, filtering and heat sterilization. The ozone controls the bacteria colonization whereas the density of the liquid resists loss of cell moisture thus assisting the immune competence and control of a positive nitrogen balance.

Abstract: Ozone is produced when oxygen dissolved or absorbed in an inert liquid dielectric is irradiated with ultra violet (light) energy in the wave length range between 1100 and 2200 angstrom units. The apparatus wherein oxygen gas or air or mixtures thereof, converts a percentage of the oxygen to ozone is composed of special ultra violet 1100 to 2200 angstrom wave length transmitting glass or plastic liquid retainer structural material for the selected inert dielectric liquid used as the absorber liquid for the oxygen, air and ozone gases. The configurations for construction of the apparatus are adinfinitum as flat parallel sheets, paired-corrugated sheets, concentric tubes, etc., any of which control the thickness of the dielectric liquid passing by the source of irradiation.

Abstract: The wind powered mechanical and electric power generator, is a process and apparatus which uses the mechanical advantage of a lever arm to multiply the energy of a moving or mobile weight which is wind powered from a propeller drive, and converts by gravity and mechanical advantage said energy to useful work. The unit consists in its simplest form of a counter balanced wheel on one side of a centerline shaft and a concentrated weight on the opposite side, both kept rigid by a connecting structure beam, the entire unit made to revolve around the centerline shaft by moving a mobil weight around the wheel perimeter in concert with the units rotation so as to continually produce an off-balance of weights, which then uses gravity to cause the total unit to rotate. The mobile weight is driven around the wheel by a wind powered small propeller.

Abstract: Living cells of plants, such as Thallophyta and Embryophyta are grown at an accelerated rate in a multi-medium hydroponics mixture consisting of a carbon dioxide gas impregnated inert, nonionic, non-aggressive, liquid medium which is non-miscible with water; and an aqueous hydroponic nutrient liquid medium; as compared to the single medium nutrient aqueous liquid medium.The process consists of growing clone cells, or callus, in a mechanically mixed suspension of a nutrient hydroponic liquid, made up of water and selected soluble mineral nutrients; and supplementing the growing cells need of carbon, the principal cell mass, with carbon dioxide carried dissolved as a non-ionic gas in an inert, non-hypertonic, non-hypotonic liquid; rather than use of "sugar".

Abstract: Hot discharged products of combustion from internal combustion particularly diesel engines containing oxidizable hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and particulate carbon are commingled with an inert halogenated hydrocarbon liquid, having eight or more carbon atoms in its make up; absorbing and entrapping these contaminants therein. The inert absorber liquid, pregnant with the contaminants, is then pressurized, which along with the temperature rise of the absorber liquid created from exchange of heat from the products of combustion gases, along with dissolved excess oxygen available from the excess air used during combustion: Wet oxidizes in a very short time the hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and particulate carbon to non objectionable carbon dioxide and water vapor; which are then disposed of to atmosphere. This invention is the process wherein these functions take place.

Abstract: The apparatus described in this disclosure has only one principal function, that is, to mechanically separate an inert, dielectric, nonmagnetic, liquid carrying absorbed paramagnetic gases; into two phases, that which becomes saturated or supersaturated with absorbed paramagnetic gases and that which has been magnetically stripped of its absorbed paramagnetic gases. The apparatus works only within the space between a pair of north and south poles of a high intensity magnet. The magnetic forces attract the paramagnetic gases to the poles, the mechanical apparatus, here disclosed, isolates separate streams of the liquid into selected concentrated absorbed gases streams. When the concentration of the absorbed paramagnetic gases becomes supersaturated to the extent the gases effervesce from the liquid, the apparatus collects the gases for use or further processing.

Abstract: Many acids, bases and the familys of liquid chemicals which are exothermic when mixed with water, and are reversible as endothermic are usable as "heat sinks" to store solar and waste heat energy. Selection of a liquid combination of any of these which when heated releases some or all the water provides a means of producing a "heat sink" for storage of solar or waste heat energy. The confined evaporation of the water produces a pressure which is used to move a piston thus moving a column of liquid being pumped. Moving the column of cool liquid through a condenser then reduces the temperature and pressure which in turn withdraws the piston so it can do additional work, as well as heats the column of pumped water.

Abstract: My invention relates to the use of laser light energy to excite oxygen from its normal ambient state to that required for it to convert to molecular ozone. Laser light energy is passed through a flowing stream of oxygen molecules and atoms, either when the oxygen is in a gaseous form or as when it is absorbed as a gas in a halogenated hydrocarbon inert liquid; thus producing ozone, when in the gaseous form, for immediate use, or when absorbed in the inert liquid, for later use.

Abstract: Heavy oil from underground oil sands or tar sands is liquified with recirculation of superheated water and when brought to the ground surface is then wet oxidized for its heat value. The sulphur content of the products of wet oxidation is then wet reduced to elemental sulphur for by-product. The carbon dioxide gas generated as a product of wet oxidation is injected back to wells for its value as a diluter of the oil. Heat produced from wet oxidation is used for useful work at wells site.

Abstract: This invention relates to the combination of a number of pieces of separate functioning apparatus in order to accomplish the combined purposes of producing medical grade oxygen from air, saturating an inert isotonic liquid with the oxygen, adjusting the temperature of the oxygen saturated liquid to a predetermined temperature, injecting the oxygen saturated liquid into the bottom of the animal lung(s) cavity, circulating the liquid up through the lung(s) cavity by removal of the carbon dioxide saturated liquid at the top of the lung(s) cavity along with displaced from the lung(s) cavity non-miscible, aqueous liquid; separation of nonmiscible liquid, filtering of isotonic liquid for particulate removal, heat sterilization of isotonic liquid as well as stripping of remaining absorbed gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2), cooling and temperature adjusting of isotonic liquid to predetermined desired temperature, and return of isotonic liquid to saturator for resaturation with oxygen and repeat cycle use.

Abstract: Coal and carbon particulates or dust when mixed with water through which a direct electric current passes, electrochemically react reducing the water to hydrogen and the coal to carbon dioxide. By washing the electrodes with an inert dielectric liquid the gases as formed are mechanically washed from both the anode and cathode electrodes and subsequently absorbed by the liquid thus more efficiently keeping the chemical reaction proceeding to the right. By using a liquid dielectric capable of operating under elevated temperatures and superatmospheric pressures the chemical reactions proceed at a much greater rate than at atmospheric and ambient conditions. This disclosure teaches the art and science of producing hydrogen by reacting coal or carbon dust with hot water retained as water by superatmospheric pressure. The pressure controlled by the use of an inert dielectric liquid which washes the electrodes and while doing so depolarizes them by absorption of the gases.

Abstract: A fuel cell is an electrochemical device composed of a nonconsumable anode and cathode, an electrolyte, fuel and controls, the maximum current density that can be passed depends upon the rate of mass transfer of atoms and their respective electrons. This invention improves the rate of mass transfer by submerging the "oxygen" contact electrode in a dielectric liquid saturated with absorbed oxygen, and when using a gaseous fuel, submerging the "hydrogen" contact electrode in a dielectric liquid saturated with the absorbed gaseous fuel. The invention uses a liquid dielectric which is nonmiscible with water, thus as water is formed at either electrode, the water is immediately rejected from the electrode/dielectric contact and being equally rejected by the dielectric is removed from interfering or resisting current flow, thus further improving the efficiency of the fuel cell.

Abstract: A fuel cell is an electrochemical apparatus composed of both a nonconsumable anode and cathode; and electrolyte, fuel oxidant and controls. This invention guarantees the constant transfer of hydrogen atoms and their respective electrons, thus a constant flow of power by submergence of the negative electrode in a constant strength hydrogen furnishing fuel; when said fuel is an aqueous absorbed hydrocarbon, such as and similar to ethanol or methnol. The objective is accomplished by recirculation of the liquid fuel, as depleted in the cell through specific type membranes which pass water molecules and reject the fuel molecules; thus concentrating them for recycle use.

Abstract: A reactor vessel is established wherein a fuel is oxidized within an inert oxygen-carrier liquid. A portion of the heat of oxidation is used to raise steam. In one embodiment a double acting engine is interconnected to the reactor vessel wherein the first stroke of the piston is actuated by exhaust gases from the products of oxidation and the return stroke of the piston is actuated by the said steam. In other embodiments generated gases are used to power a turbine and a gas lift pump.

Abstract: This invention relates to the physical/chemical relationship wherein ultraviolet light energy excites the oxygen molecules to an extent the normal molecular form of oxygen O.sub.2 becomes O.sub.3 the physical chemical reaction is caused to take place by dissolving oxygen in an inert liquid, such as a fully halogen saturated hydrocarbon liquid, then radiating the absorber liquid with ultraviolet light; thus not only converting the soluble oxygen to ozone but also retaining it in solution in the absorber liquid unit it is desired to be released for useful work of chemical oxidation and/or disinfection.