Chuckm,
Well, well, good answer. And thank you for your offer on making tests with the car. Maybe I will take your world in the future!
I still have some doubts, as follows. Donīt matter much, anyway.
On the bottle of ready made hydrogen:
Well, they do use it, indeed! See this:
The car runs on pure hydrogen. The problem is at time they produce hydrogen.
Second, that 128 kcal example. You wrote:
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If you take 4 grams of hydrogen and combine them with 32 grams of oxygen, forming 36 grams of water, you will release 118 kilocalories of heat. If you could reverse this reaction with 100% efficiency, it would take 118 kcal of energy to do so.
How do you know that it "costs" the same 128 kcal to reverse the reaction?
It may cost more or less, with some heat coming or leaving, for example.
Think this: when water change its state from liquid to vapor, it takes heat from the environment. What happen in the opposite direction?
What I mean, is that the reaction may not be equal in both senses.
Anyway, my little knowledge on the matter comes to itīs limit about here
And yes, what we are talking about is usable energy.
Even if HHO has a catalist effect, I want to know if that can produce a net improvement or not. In practice.
OldBeaver