[Gorzaloon]

I’m hoping that someday someone figures out that if you drop some common metal into the solution, it will do the work for us. However, if such a thing exists, we’d see mass discharges of O2 and H2 whenever that stuff got wet in the wild.

That was posted about two weeks ago. Aluminum/gallium amalgam produces hydrogen when dropped into water.

I bet the first thing a bean counter would say is "Let's go read Alcoa's electric meter and see how many kWH it takes to make a pound of aluminum".

(Sinking feeling)

[TWohlford]

“I bet the first thing a bean counter would say is ‘Let’s go read Alcoa’s electric meter and see how many kWH it takes to make a pound of aluminum’.”

Yup. We can’t burn up lot of energy in various forms just to produce some energy in a certain form.

Granted, the process of getting crude out to our fuel tanks in usable form takes energy too, and that process has been “refined” (pun intended) for the past 100 years to make it more efficient.