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- Eronysis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is my understanding that this process still requires more energy in the way of electricity to crack the gas than is generated by burning it. As in his car runs a gas engine in order to power an alternator which in turn provides the electricity to split the gas.... It's nowhere near efficient or ready for use.
This is vaporware in the same way that the electricity OR NATURAL GAS(this is most common) used in the heating elements required to make "clean corn ethanol" carries more energy than the ethanol it produces.
These are ridiculous in the current iterations as fuel sources. You end up with a energy deficit using them.
They play nicely to the media and are nice token gestures for the neocons to stick on though... - CamZak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You're missing that the laws of thermodynamics prevents a device powered by HHO producing more power than it took to produce the HHO gas. Otherwise, you have perpetual motion. Think of this as a battery. It takes electricity to produce the HHO gas, using the HHO gas produces less energy than the electricty used to produce the HHO gas.
A recent digg article showed that combustion engines are only 15% efficient at turning the energy in gas to driving power. Coal gets burnt to provide electricity, electricity splits HHO, HHO is used in car. Each of those steps loses power. It's more energy efficient in most cases to just burn the gas...now lets say the energy is coming from a clean source...then things are different, it's less energy efficient, but you're using cleaner energy...so that would be good, but expensive. - Eronysis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am wondering why Iamnos got modded down while I got Digs. Odd.
To CamZak, where is your electricity coming from? his car is still burning gas. He has effectively made a flavor of VERY underpowered extremely inefficient hybrid. - batmant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ah I should of thought of that. I've heard the same complaint about ethanol (burn more making it than you save). Looks like we're back to good old oil. Oh well...anyone have a horse they think will when the energy race? My bets are on fuel cells.
- batmant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why isn't this national news? Why hasn't one of the Big-3 given this guy his millions already (or haved him killed) and perfect this thing for mass production. What am I missing?
- iamnos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2But it requires more enegery to split the water then you get out of burning the hydrogen. Sorry, not worthwhile.
- Atomzbzboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I still think this is an amazing process. There are times when it might be worthwhile to have a less than efficient process to use water as a fuel than to have to keep relying on gas, specifically for our troops overseas where the oil pipelines are being blown up. I'm sure if we have enough minds working on perfecting this technology we could see a major breakthrough in the future, couldn't say when though.
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