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Old 12-08-2009, 05:45 PM   #22 (permalink)
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While that might be viable and would in fact work, the inefficiencies of all the energy conversions add up like crazy. First, you convert your motion to electricity, then electricity to hydrogen, then hydrogen to physical motion again. By the time you do all that, you only have a tiny fraction of the original energy you were trying to capture.
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