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Old 12-18-2010, 07:41 AM   #85 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Lethedethius View Post
actually show me proof it's not possible or hold your comments.
How about actually showing decent proof of what you claim ?

A vehicle running on H2 is nothing spectacular, it's entirely possible, and no-one here is doubting the possibility.
The viability of hydrogen fuel vehicles is something else entirely - even before we start looking at the ways and the energy balance to generate hydrogen.


If you've got spectacular ways to generate hydrogen out of water using less energy than what you practically get out of the hydrogen, I strongly suggest you patent them today.
You'll be rich before you know it.


Burning hydrogen generates water and a lot of excess energy, usually in the form of heat.
In order to do the reverse, that same energy needs to be put back into the water to split it into O2 and H2.

If you use the excess energy to drive anything, you'll need to add the energy again somewhere along the line.

Miracles and perpetuum mobiles don't exist.

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But the same goes for those who believe it's possible, show me proof! A guy in Ohio, in Grove City produced a water car, and it worked. So it IS possible, but is it feasible?
Surely you can generate hydrogen by electrolysis of water.
Surely you can use that hydrogen to power a car.

But take a look at the energy balance ...
Oh, excuse me, I forgot about your next point.

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please leave out all the arithmetic as I don't care and don't understand math, and likely everyone else doesn't understand it
Obviously you want all the arithmetic out of the equation, because it'd show these claimed miracles to be effectively wasting energy.
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