On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Fryday wrote: > Well, isn't the whole point to find a process that is more efficient to > separate the hydrogen from the oxygen than to put them back together? That can't happen. It'd violate some pretty basic laws of physics. It'd be like dropping a rubber ball and having it bounce higher than the height you dropped it from. The energy has to *come* from somewhere. > Interesting. Does that mean that hydrogen fuel cells would be nothing more than > energy transfered from plants running on fossil or reusable energy? Yup. That's why I'm so skeptical about them. They have some of the same problems electric cars do -- at least where I live, that energy is going to be coming largely from a coal-fired power plant, probably resulting in more total pollution. _ _ __ _ _ _| | | | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE) Ypsilanti, MI / _` | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------- | (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org \__, |\__,_|_|_| "Geekdom is fantastic at being AGAINST something, and |___/ it's hopeless at being FOR something." -- Andrew Orlowski in The Register. |
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