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Originally Posted by Qiaozhi
Actually this does work! ... BUT - whether the production of gas can keep up with consumption by the combustion engine is another story.
There is also the question of whether it would be more efficient to use the electricity to drive an electric motor, rather than convert water to HHO gas and put it through an inefficient ICE.
Stanley Meyer always claimed that there was about 5x more energy in the resultant HHO gas than the electrical energy required to generate it. This would be easy to prove. Simply connect the ICE to a generator and recharge the battery. Then you just need to feed the device with water and it should continue to run forever.  |
Yes, right!
The background problem is that, in the real wold, the energy stored in the bond between H and O in the water molecules is higher than the energy that you get when burn produced (combine again) H2 and O (actually O2 gas) to produce again water...
Any system or method claimed of breaking the water molecules must face that problem... extra energy than produced by combustion later is needed to break the molecules.
Everytime someone say it's not like above... that energy required to break a molecule of water is less than that produced by recombination of produced H2 and O (O2 gas indeed) produced, he say something that is impossible by physics: violate the second law of thermodynamics, create more energy than what's already there in the closed system... that's impossible.
Assuming a process like electrolysis at 100% efficiency you'll get by combustion exactly the same amount of energy you extract from chemical bond of H2O molecule... but electrolysis is not a perfect 100% efficient process... so you waste more energy than what you'll produce by later combustion of gases... that's why hydrogen-powered-cars aren't produced... to create H2 used in combustion engine you'll waste enormous quantities of electic energy in poor efficiency electrolysis cells.
Always you need extra energy at low cost to break that bonds... (but where to find ???
Install a small nuclear reactor in the car... like in "back to the future" ?)
About Meyer...
Meyer wrote of electrical resonance of water involved in the process to explain why can break water with so few energy than common electrolysis... but
From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley...ater_fuel_cell
"Meyer's claims about his "Water Fuel Cell" and the car that it powered were found to be fraudulent by an Ohio court in 1996."
So...seems the above Meyer's thing is at best ...pseudoscience.
Kind regards,
Max