Why Burn Gold Hydrogen?

- Hydrogen Combustion Is Easy With The Right Technology

- Hydrogen Combustion Is Cheap With The Right Fuel Source

- Hydrogen Combustion Is Environmentally Friendly - Emits Water and Valuable Nitric Acid (and some trace materials)

The Gold Hydrogen Revolution - The Energy Future Is Under Your Feet

In 2017 Dr. Roger Billings told me my vision as it was would remain impossible. He said, “Brian, there isn’t enough hydrogen ON earth for you to burn in your combustion device. Fuel cells are the path forward. Someone just needs to figure out storage”. He was right. We needed about 100 tons of hydrogen per hour to burn – an enormous amount even in a global scale.

The hydrogen economy predicted by Dr. Billings was not possible. That’s until mother nature had different plans. There are natural geologic and radioactive sources of natural hydrogen. Scientists have studied vents for about a decade. In January 2025, the US Geological Survey (USGS) released its first comprehensive report on natural hydrogen and found that there are enormous amounts of it deep in the ground.

It’s IN the earth, not on it. More hydrogen than natural gas. Wow… had a hunch but nothing that big!

The Multi Disc Rotary Generator (MDR)

Now that the fuel is here, it’s time to complete Nikola Tesla’s vision of his turbine - a large power generator. Dr. Billings challenged me to make my device efficient using the lost concepts of Nikola Tesla’s turbine in my 2017 meeting with him. My original concept was based on the Wankel rotary engine, good but not efficient. So I did, and I turned Tesla's powered pump into a power generator to run on clean natural hydrogen.

The complete bladeless turbine device is designed in modules for easy production and maintenance, Since it’s not a very complex machine, it will be comparatively cheap to produce. Each module can continue operation when other modules are shut down or removed allowing the plant to start and continue operation almost indefinitely. We can add modules to increase power density or modify modules for particular use. We are aiming at a 500T per hour 2.5GW generator. Our combustion technologies don't really care about purity, something turbines and reciprocating engines must have. We have solutions to equalize density on demand for a consistent mixture. This allows stable combustion without much gas scrubbing or pre-treatment. I’m keeping the rest of the device to myself because I’ve decided to take the millions needed for patents and put it into people.

The Storage and Explosion Problem

Storing and transporting molecular hydrogen is hard. It wants to escape everything since it is the smallest molecule. It is also very reactive so the containers you store it in need to be very special. Even then you can’t store it forever; it will leak out. And hydrogen leaks are very bad - hydrogen is explosive in a very large range of concentrations in free air from 4% to 75%. You can’t smell or see it, and there isn’t much for leak detection outside of the lab or unless you’re on top of it. Natural gas explodes in free air between 5 and 15%; immensely safer, but we have natural gas explosions every day..

Mother nature took care of the hardest problem for us - storage. Now we need safety.

Long Distance Laser Absorption and Refractive Spectroscopy (LDLARS)

One of our main goals is to develop sensing technologies to save people’s lives. I investigated laser technology with thoughts of using it to vaporize plastic (pyrolysis) and later rock. Didn’t work - but it created a thought that correlated with the study of spectroscopy. We can see hydrogen on other planets but we can’t here. We must physically interact with the atom. That makes it very hard to detect a leak across the room. Our tech, Long Distance Laser Absorption and Refractive Spectroscopy (LDLARS) is designed to detect 100PPM hydrogen in free air at a 10 meter distance. It will be used for field, lab, and home use to protect anyone within that 10 meter distance from explosive concentrations.

Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Fuel cells are the supreme hydrogen electric technology when you have absolutely pure liquid hydrogen available to you. They are incredibly efficient in their use and they continue to get more power dense with each generation. Dr. Billings spent an incredible amount of time perfecting them. The problem is they are very expensive and use rare earth metals, they can be temperamental, they are fragile, and any small amount of impurity in your expensive liquid hydrogen stream and you’ve ruined your machine. They are heavy and need heavy storage systems to operate them. And you need a mess of them to make baseload power. If we can solve the “on” earth storage problem, these are the future of hydrogen mobility.

Hydrogen In Transportation

I spent much of my life servicing automobiles. I’m just as big a car guy as I am a hydrogen guy. I would love to put my tech into vehicles if it's the right and safe fit. We go back to the storage issue. At cheap gaseous states we can’t get enough into safe cylinders to have meaningful range. Refill times are low but who wants to refill frequently (in comparison to traditional fossil energy). Fleets, captured vehicles, on site vehicles are much better suited for these technologies than the family truckster.

Liquid solves the density issue and we can go just as far as fossil fuels without the carbon impact. But liquid hydrogen is incredibly expensive and storing it even moreso. Cryotanks and hydrides are making improvements, but it’s still very expensive.

Fusion

I’m getting the enthusiast bug for fusion. I’ve researched ITER, the largest fusion device, for decades. It started in the 1980’s and still has yet to prove it makes fusion. Once they do, they still have to figure out how to deal with the heat and make energy. They say it should be the easiest part, but it still has to be proven. It’s the world’s most complex machine, right up there with the Large Hadron Collider. Seems to be a lot of work for some electrons.

Small scale fusion with different applications may work for electricity production but it seems complicated and expensive as well. Neutron uses and other interesting products from fusion seems to be a better use to me. More valuable as well. This space is very interesting, well above my knowledge level. But maybe someday I’ll really understand it.

Geothermal

Geothermal goes back really far for me. I was 14 when my parents looked at a home that had a geothermal energy system. The control and pump room was obviously made by a detail obsessed plumber. I can still see it clear as day. We share a serious technical issue with our geothermal friends - we have to dig really deep for our H2 or their heat. If either of us can make the cost viable in doing so along with extraction - well Thomas Edison gets his global renewable energy vision. Both technologies are designed to make both heat and electricity - critical for combined power or cogeneration.

Wind and Solar

Solar takes a lot of land and materials. Wind takes many very large machines. Because they are intermittent, we still need viable storage for the electrons when they are made and when they are needed. Battery storage has come a long way, and iron battery tech looks very promising. But we can just pump some of our clean electrons into them just as easy with far less impact.

Fossil Fuels

Oil and gas is why we’re here. It’s the foundation of modern life. It's excellent at so many things because we’ve worked with it for so long. We’ve found it’s not the best for electron production because the byproducts harm our environment. We all know this. Using oil and gas for the many products that keep us alive, fed, safe, and innovating seems better in my opinion than making electrons.

Fission

It was designed as a bomb right out of the gate. Chernobyl. 3 Mile Island. Fukushima all the same effects as a bomb as well. It’s wildly expensive and risky. Even if we made it foolproof, we still have large amounts of radioactive waste to not be around for 100,000 years! It served its purpose to get baseload energy to us since the 60’s. We all know what the downsides are and since there is a very viable alternative, $15B for a reactor would make 3 plants of ours. It just not for me.

All We Need Is You

I hope my thoughts shape a safe, clean, prosperous future for all of us. Earth is a big place with a lot of people. We need to learn how to collaborate to not reinvent everything. World class tech is out there waiting to pair with our hydrogen future. Gold Hydrogen needs to be a contributor to safety, electron generation, chemicals, and a better world. Read, investigate, research, and when you’re ready, help us make the best new energy technology we can make.

All we need is you.

Thank You For Answering My Call For Help

I thank the many people in my life and strangers around the world who provided me help, information, encouragement, and love. You've shaped this vision,
and you'll help make it real.

Dr. Roger Billings - thank you. Thank you for crashing into my auto shop. Thank you for being exactly the mentor I needed you to be; as was Bill Lear to you, and Thomas Edison to him. And that you saw something in Nikola Tesla's lost invention that would make mine work - well, you're the visionary. The weight of history is not unfelt and I shall carry it with me. To God and Country we shall prosper for all of Humanity.

"You Cannot Pick The Time Or Place Of Your Success, You Can Only Be Prepared To Receive It." - Brian Peck, 2025

Be Thoughtful And Safe

Brian

Inventor and a regular guy who had a dream, a desire to learn, and now a purpose.