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Old 08-12-2009, 12:09 AM   #45 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RobertSmalls View Post
This is exactly the kind of nonsense that you occasionally read in some newspaper whose circulation is lagging. The energy is not free by any means. Producing H2 from CH4 means you have less CH4 available to burn, and producing it from H2O consumes enormous amounts of electricity, which has to come from somewhere.
What if you derived the electricity by using a rectifying antenna to capture radio waves? Would you rather use the radio waves to make hydrogen or just let them turn into useless heat in the environment?
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