Re: A great homebrew generator plan

Posted by Mike (WA) on December 07, 2004 at 17:54:29 from (209.213.153.73):

In Reply to: Re: A great homebrew generator plan posted by Paul in Mich on December 07, 2004 at 17:02:44:

The big villians here are the laws of thermodynamics- it takes more energy to break apart the hydrogen and oxygen from water than you get when you recombine them by combustion. This doesn't even have to be proven emperically, because if that were not the case, water would decompose spontaneously, with catastrophic results vis a vis "the world as we know it". The exception is nuclear reactions, which do produce extra energy. Lucky for us that there are not enough radioactive materials just laying around to support an unrestrained reaction. I do think that the future of energy is in the decompositon and recombination of water, because the energy "cost" to do so is very low compared to the costs of other types of energy, and the "cost" in terms of environmental degradation is virtually negligible, making it acceptable to the greeners. If you could carry on the "water to hydrogen/ oxygen and hydrogen/oxygen to water" reactions with only the addition of a modest alcohol flame producing the extra energy needed, I believe everyone would be happy. And I see that happening within the foreseaable future. I rode in a Honda Prius the other day, and, while the original poster's idea of perpetual motion will never be realized, I was impressed that we could apply the same principals and get 60 MPG while keeping up with the traffic and riding comfortably. I'm still not sellin' the Lincoln, but if gas prices get much higher, I'll probably be thinking about it.

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