No energy can be gained by electrolysis and recombination.

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No energy can be gained by electrolysis and recombination.

David F Mayer — 6/8/2006 9:39:10 AM (archived)

You need to learn Thermodynamics. It takes exactly as much energy to split a liter of water into hydrogen and oxygen as is given off when the two gasses are recombined, if the process is 100% efficient. No process is 100% efficient, so it actually takes more energy in practice than is released in recombination. Therefore, splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen and recombining them can never generate net energy.

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Put a target on your back if you develop new fuel technologies - Lindy - 6/5/2006 1:55:26 PM
- This smells a little funny but the video is still interesting. - RobVG - 7/1/2006 6:20:47 PM
- Add water to gas....get more RPMS? - Lindy - 6/16/2006 5:37:20 PM
- re: Put a target on your back if you develop new fuel technologies - Joey - 6/12/2006 11:12:54 PM
- Corporate skulduggery - ER - 6/10/2006 12:32:37 PM
- Take the case of Stan Meyers, for instance - Lindy - 6/7/2006 9:40:52 AM
  - re: Take the case of Stan Meyers, for instance - Paul - 4/17/2008 2:22:25 PM
    - Good luck with that.... - M.I.B. - 4/17/2008 9:08:45 PM
  - re: Take the case of Stan Meyers, for instance - jim - 6/19/2007 3:23:44 PM
  - No energy can be gained by electrolysis and recombination. - David F Mayer - 6/8/2006 9:39:10 AM
    - re: No energy can be gained by electrolysis and recombination. - Pablo - 6/15/2006 1:11:27 AM
      - Thermodynamics is on a very solid experimental basis - David F Mayer - 6/15/2006 1:56:51 AM
  - You're so good at researching.... - Tony - 6/7/2006 6:55:15 PM
    - Pick, pick, pick - Lindy - 6/7/2006 8:24:51 PM
      - More picking - Tony - 6/7/2006 9:28:14 PM
      - Then you are plagiarizing - Tony - 6/7/2006 9:26:21 PM
        
        re: Then you are plagiarizing - Tom Brosz - 6/8/2006 12:01:06 AM
        
        An opinion is always better than a one word post - tony - 6/8/2006 3:15:50 AM
        
        re: An opinion is always better than a one word post - Tom Brosz - 6/8/2006 4:20:21 AM
        
        Fair Enough - Tony - 6/8/2006 3:39:56 PM
        
        I see your point Tony - Lindy - 6/9/2006 1:50:31 AM
        
        you dont have to make any comment at all - tony - 6/9/2006 3:55:52 AM
  - God, this is like trying to teach a ball of neutronium to swim. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/7/2006 5:18:03 PM
    - The difference being.... - R.L. - 6/11/2006 1:15:44 AM
- More absurdity. - David F Mayer - 6/6/2006 5:04:41 PM
- I made a comment over on the "Villiage Idiot" Flame thread appropriate here - Buck Galaxy - 6/5/2006 9:31:09 PM
  - Who said I believed it? - Lindy - 6/5/2006 10:42:21 PM
    - You did - Tony - 6/7/2006 6:37:58 PM
      - She does that a lot... - R.L. - 6/11/2006 7:29:54 AM
      - Leading edge inventors - Lindy - 6/7/2006 8:30:28 PM
        
        One more try - Tom Brosz - 6/7/2006 9:23:04 PM
- re: Put a target on your back if you develop new fuel technologies - ER - 6/5/2006 2:44:19 PM
  - re: Put a target on your back if you develop new fuel technologies - azstrummer - 6/5/2006 5:29:32 PM
    - To Lindy - ER - 6/5/2006 6:06:46 PM
      - re: To Lindy - azstrummer - 6/5/2006 6:19:10 PM
        
        Well Art..... - Lindy - 6/5/2006 7:25:55 PM
        
        re: To Lindy - ER - 6/5/2006 7:11:09 PM
        
        "Trusting instincts" - Lindy - 6/5/2006 7:33:21 PM
  - Why would you find it hard to believe? (n/t) - Lindy - 6/5/2006 3:29:10 PM
    - Another urban myth? - ER - 6/5/2006 5:50:15 PM
    - re: Let me list the ways... - Tom Brosz - 6/5/2006 5:45:29 PM
      - Whatever happened to the Dean Drive?. (n/t) - ER - 6/5/2006 6:09:01 PM
        
        Derailed when Dean made a loud strange noise at a rally... never recovered. (n/t) - Fox - 6/6/2006 3:09:18 AM
        
        re: Whatever happened to the Dean Drive?. - Tom Brosz - 6/5/2006 10:15:12 PM
        
        Follow the way of the prophet and you shall see such great things! - Amidilliah al Ridijadijih - 6/5/2006 10:22:13 PM
      - re: Let me list the ways... - ER - 6/5/2006 5:51:44 PM
        
        This Week on NOW: "Who Killed the Electric Car?" - ljk - 6/9/2006 3:04:23 AM
        
        Corporate Skulduggery - ER - 6/10/2006 12:24:40 PM
        
        re: Corporate Skulduggery - Tom Brosz - 6/10/2006 2:54:54 PM
        
        The spice must flow. - ER - 6/10/2006 3:53:22 PM
        
        Oil companies - Tom Brosz - 6/10/2006 7:24:59 PM
        
        Der Tag - ER - 6/10/2006 8:10:02 PM
        
        re: Der Tag - Tom Brosz - 6/10/2006 9:08:30 PM
        
        re: Der Tag - ER - 6/10/2006 9:15:33 PM
        
        re: Der Tag - Tom Brosz - 6/10/2006 10:55:26 PM
        
        Thirty years is nothing. (n/t) - ER - 6/11/2006 1:10:42 AM
        
        re: The spice must flow. - Lindy - 6/10/2006 6:31:25 PM
        
        bend over Hummer, fill 'er up - ER - 6/10/2006 7:30:03 PM
        
        Cars - Tom Brosz - 6/10/2006 8:16:36 PM
        
        Beep, Beep, Um Beep Beep, yeah. - ER - 6/10/2006 9:12:28 PM
        
        "Who Killed the Electric Car?" - Lindy - 6/9/2006 3:43:05 AM
        
        Crude Awakening on NOW - ljk - 6/16/2006 4:38:06 AM

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