To: Red Badger
Not this crap again... :-/
As Slings and Arrows points out, the energy comes from the electrode assembly material, which is used as consumable fuel. Water is not the energy source here. It is thermodynamically impossible to break water into hydrogen and oxygen and then get a net energy gain by reacting the hydrogen with oxygen in the air.
33 posted on
06/13/2008 12:27:46 PM PDT by
NMR Guy
To: NMR Guy
Thanks for the shout-out. If only we could start a war between the prepetual-motioners and the angle-trisectors...
43 posted on
06/13/2008 12:36:09 PM PDT by
Slings and Arrows
("Code Pink should guard against creating stereotypes in the Mincing Community." --Titan Magroyne)
To: NMR Guy
I did some calculations on micro turbines, Small Gas Turbines, for a friend of mine. The efficiency was about 26% for a natural gas unit at $6.50 per MMBTU without heat recovery. With heat recovery around 70%, but you couldn't shut the damned thing down for maintenance. They break easily if you have a lot of outages.
47 posted on
06/13/2008 12:45:18 PM PDT by
Little Bill
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To: NMR Guy
It is thermodynamically impossible to break water into hydrogen and oxygen and then get a net energy gain by reacting the hydrogen with oxygen in the air. Cold Fission? ;~))
95 posted on
06/24/2008 11:33:51 AM PDT by
Ditto
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