<VV> Hydrogen (HHO) Generator NO CORVAIR

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Bill,
    How about a set of solar panels (or a power  generating windmill) on the 
roof??  Then you could generate your OWN  hydrogen FREE!!  Of course FIRST you 
need to come up with the $20,000 -  $30,000 for the solar system or 
windmill!!!!
    Frank "wild ideas" Burkhard
 
 
In a message dated 5/1/2008 9:30:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
corvair at fnader.com writes:

Small  physics problem with creating your own hydrogen.

Hydrogen is an energy  storage medium, not energy itself.  It takes 
significant energy (7-11  amps from the websites)  to produce hydrogen 
from water and the  potential energy contained in that hydrogen after 
separating it from water  is less than the energy it took to separate it 
(the process not being 100%  efficient... the websites even talk about 
the heat generated from this  process...that  is lost energy).

Unless the use of the hydrogen  could significantly raise the volumetric 
efficiency of the engine (so that  the potential energy of the hydrogen 
as gasoline could be better captured)  enough to make up for the power 
loss in producing the hydrogen (not a  claim I've seen made), it would 
seem to me you would always be in a net  loss situation. That 7-11 amps 
have to comes from  somewhere...

Bill







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