To: BlueSky194
It takes more energy to separate the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water than is released when it is burned and returns back to water.
Physical fact.
If it took less then you'd have perpetual motion (free energy).
7 posted on
03/25/2007 6:52:14 AM PDT by
DB
To: DB
Don't confuse me with facts , you want to destroy my legend.
barbra ann
10 posted on
03/25/2007 7:07:53 AM PDT by
barb-tex
(Why replace the IRS with anything?)
To: DB
I confess to not reading all of the article, but it sounds to me like the metal is consumed and is the source of the missing energy. If so, the waste water with dissolved metals will be far worse than the air pollution from burning oil.
11 posted on
03/25/2007 7:09:48 AM PDT by
HangThemHigh
(Entropy's not what it used to be.)
To: DB
It takes more energy to separate the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water than is released when it is burned and returns back to water.Yup.
15 posted on
03/25/2007 7:16:55 AM PDT by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: DB
This looks like
his invention at the patent office. It appears that the magnesium is consumed to produce the gas.
19 posted on
03/25/2007 7:59:09 AM PDT by
William Terrell
(Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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