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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Hello,
The gasoline has already had it's energy added, during the refining stage. If you had to refine it IN THE CAR, it would take a lot of energy to do so.
This device GENERATES the hydrogen IN THE VEHICLE, therefore it takes more energy -- from the vehicle -- than it can generate. So, it follows the laws of physics, yes -- and since the added energy (the "overhead") comes from the car (and not externally from the refinery) -- it is very different from the fuel in the tank!
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To give you a basic chemistry/history lesson:
The energy in gas doesn't come from the refinery, it comes from the sun (fussion). The energy the sun produces is absorbed by plants and turned into chemical energy (photosysnthisis). Prehistoric animals (fish, dinosaurs, etc) ate the plants. they died and were burried where time/pressure turned them into oil. the refineries take the oil and through complicated proceses, create gas, diesel, kerosene, etc from the oil. they don't add engery, the just change the oil a little bit.