Date:         Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:04:07 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
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From:         Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Subject:      Re: Water Powered Cars
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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At 01:24 AM 3/6/2008, Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote...
>I didn't read the thread, but if someone thinks they can just take
>voltage
>from the alternator and break H20 into H2 and O an run the engine off
>H2 -
>well, if that would work they would have done that decades ago.

That's exactly what these Brown's gas/oxyhydrogen proponents think. If
you muddle through enough of the pseudo-scientific claptrap, you'll
find some of them even think that there are catalysts which will make
the conversion more energy efficient (probably table salt!). They think
that the electricity they will draw from the alternator is "free,"
because the alternator is always spinning and the electricity would be
otherwise wasted! They are of course ignorant of both chemistry and
physics, catalysts don't work like that, and neither do alternators. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalyst#Catalysts_and_reaction_energetics
).

Homer Simpson has more knowledge than these guys - "In this house, we
obey the laws of thermodynamics!" -- Homer Simpson