Why didn't somebody tell me that the Second Law of Thermodynamics had been repealed?
It happened yesterday. 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court.
Add small Otto engine, when supplied with the “material” us laymen call gasoline, can be used to power a “electrode assembly” to break down hydogen and oxygen from water. :)
Perhaps your law was only a theory, Newton’s Law of Gravity once told us we could not fly, but perhaps not...
Maybe it wasn't repealed, just put on hiatus for a while.............
Exactly! First the HHO scam, now this. It must be the multidimensional flux capacitor that does not actually violate the second law of thermodynamics, it just steps around it (sarcasm off)
>>Why didn’t somebody tell me that the Second Law of Thermodynamics had been repealed?
You beat me to it.
There are some words of wisdom at the link (requires sound):
A common misperception about electrolysis (likely the process in this system) is that energy is being created.
Water being a molecule has energy stored in its very structure—actually more energy per gallon than a gallon of gasoline.
While the process of releasing that energy stored in water does require energy—and traditional electrolytic methods are notoriously inefficient, there is no reason why, with the proper technology, efficiency can not be reached to release more of the energy stored in water than it takes to “crack” that energy (the hydrogen) out of it.
This is not therefore any violation of the law of thermodynamics—since no energy is being created or added to the whole equation, only released—following standard laws of physics—from storage.
In the same way that a woodstove releases more energy than it is requred to feed it—since the energy is released from the burning wood, so too water, like any chemical, can, theoretically release more of it’s energy than it takes to “feed” the reaction(s) it takes to release it.
I believe hydrogen derived from water, be it in onboard, on demand systems (such as this) or in micro-plants-at-the-filling-station, will be the fuel of the future.
And high oil prices will push the market that direction!
No less than BMW already has a practical hydrogen powered car—and a practical onboard system (if this Japanese invention is not it) cracking water, is not far away.
You know you can’t trust laws passed by a bunch of dead white men!
barbra ann
Congress may repeal the Second Law of Thermodynamics; it nearly repealed the economic law of supply and demand; raising gasoline taxes to lower gasoline prices!
You got it! Entropy rules the day. Gibbs Free Energy tells you how much you got.
Perhaps you would like to look at my perpetual motion generator. It is a fan driven generator. The span of the fan is equal to the distance between the Senate Chamber and the House Chamber of the Capitol Building. As a matter of fact I have mounted it there. There seems to be an endless supply of hot air and high velocity bovine feces ejected from the building. It supplies as much power as the warp drive on the Starship Enterprise.