At 06:35 PM 7/11/2002, Clive Smith wrote: >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? Sure -- but as a way of moving energy around, not producing it. Hydrogen would burn very very very clean and you make it from water -- but it takes more energy to separate it from the water than you get back by burning it. And it's electricity to separate the water, so if you're burning fuel to make the electricity you take a double hit. Gasoline (and other hydrocarbon fuels) are effectively just stored-up sunlight, using plants to collect the energy. Same idea, except that we don't have to come up with the energy to make it happen, it already did. david
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