> >This has to be a scam. Yeah, you can electrolyse water to get hydrogen > >and oxygen, and you can run an engine on that, no problem. Well, it is a problem because hydrogen is bl*** dangerous stuff >> The problem is you have to put in at least as much energy to do the electrolysis as you > >get back when you burn it - not from what I've heard - aren't major mfrs having a good go at this? Clive Smith '88 Syncro Transporter
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:14 PM Subject: Re: Running on Tap Water (was Re: Attention California Vanagonites)
> At 04:05 PM 7/11/2002, David Brodbeck wrote: > >This has to be a scam. Yeah, you can electrolyse water to get hydrogen > >and oxygen, and you can run an engine on that, no problem. The problem is > >you have to put in at least as much energy to do the electrolysis as you > >get back when you burn it, because when you burn it, the end product > >is...WATER. > > Three laws of thermodynamics, restated so I can understand them: > 1) You can't win. > 2) You can't break even on any hand/throw/whatever. > 3) You can't leave the game. > > Maybe we should get branding irons made up (cf Stephenson's _Snow Crash_)? > > david > > -- > David Beierl - Providence, RI > http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" > '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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