In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:58:06 -0500: Hi, [snip] >These changes cannot produce more net energy than the formation of water. >That is the absolute upper limit to what a hydride can produce. 1430 J/g. >No chemical system can produce more than ~4 eV/atom which is close to what >the heat of formation of water is.
Formation of 1 molecule of liquid water from Hydrogen and Oxygen gasses yields 2.96 eV. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
