12-01-2009, 03:11 AM
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That's what I wondered, though... if a capacitor bank could take the charge without being destroyed, and what the cost would be of something scaled large enough to be serviceable for, say, 5 years with only maintenance.
All those buildings in the city that have lightning rods to ground the charge back to Earth could have a use, eh?
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12-01-2009, 04:02 AM
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Q: How many atom of "H" you need to separate the "H" from H2O
A: 4 "H" to get 2 "H"
Q: Interesting
A: Yes, it took universe to bond the two about four/five billion yeas now we want to separate them.
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12-01-2009, 08:57 AM
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Obviously the first application for this technology will be to develop and power an aeronautical super swine. A.S.S., for short.
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Annnnnnnd that's my cue to enter the thread. 
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12-01-2009, 11:18 AM
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Q: How many atom of "H" you need to separate the "H" from H2O
A: 4 "H" to get 2 "H"
Q: Interesting
A: Yes, it took universe to bond the two about four/five billion yeas now we want to separate them.
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I'm sorry... what?!?
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12-01-2009, 11:33 AM
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Jeff Sokol, President/CEO of HybridTech, said that nearly 90% of the electricity produced can be used elsewhere, as the electrolysis unit only consumes around 10-12% of the electricity to produce enough hydroxy gas to keep the engine running. "The opportunities are incredible for technology this efficient," he told me.
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He's absolutely right about the incredible opportunities. The problem is that he doesn't have the technology - nobody does.
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12-01-2009, 01:44 PM
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It's more likely that the OP is actually an alien than the aforementioned scientifical soooper geniuses have invented a perpetual motion machine. That's because alien life is plausible, perpetual motion machines are not.
What we have at Hybridtech is someone taking advantage of the incredible financial opportunities afforded by exploiting the perpetual moron machine.
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12-01-2009, 02:40 PM
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Frank - he's an engineer, through and through. I'm sure he did the math on paper, overlooking some insignificant detail so that it would "work"... but in the real world, those seemingly insignificant details are usually the world's weight, so to speak. It never works out.
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12-01-2009, 11:04 PM
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12-01-2009, 11:49 PM
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Re: Marketing department comment
Speaking of lightning... how hard would it be to capture the electrical energy of a lightning bolt? Why hasn't anyone been openly looking into this for our "green energy sources" of the future? I'm sure it's not easy, but I can't imagine its' difficult... we can direct where lightning strikes, to some extent, so why can't we capture the energy?
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It
s not that hard, a guy did it a bunch of years ago and reanimated a corpse.
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12-02-2009, 04:21 PM
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Speaking of lightning... how hard would it be to capture the electrical energy of a lightning bolt? Why hasn't anyone been openly looking into this for our "green energy sources" of the future? I'm sure it's not easy, but I can't imagine its' difficult... we can direct where lightning strikes, to some extent, so why can't we capture the energy?
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I'm with bestclimb... Another guy went back to the future.
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