Because you could go a minimum of 4 times further down the road if you put the electricity into a NiMH battery bank and drove the vehicle with an electric motor. Kirk
Jan Warnqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Doug, Andrew et al. Hydrogen gas has a fine heat value, which makes it very interesting as an energy source. However, as Doug pointed out, it will be necessary to obtain the energy for the electrolysis from an outer source, why not from solar cells, to make the energy balance favourable. Good Luck ! Jan Warnqvist AGERATEC AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] + 46 554 201 89 +46 70 499 38 45 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 5:49 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Water Powered Engine / Electrolysis > What this amounts to is a really lousy, incompetent attempt at a perpetual > motion machine. > > You have to put in the energy to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen, > then you get back the same energy when they recombine. There would be no > surplus to run the vehicle even if every stage was perfectly efficient, > which they are very far from being. > > Doug Woodard > St, Catharines, Ontario, Canada > > > > Just trying to pick the brains of the rest of the world.... > > > > This is pertaining to gasoline engines being run off of hydrogen from an > > electrolysis reaction onboard the vehicle. > > http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/feb2/carplans_doc.htm > > > > What is the probability of this working correctly? Anyone done it? > > > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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