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Originally Posted by local600
Not only do I think this car looks great, I'm excited about the technology. Anyone who says it's rubbish or perpetual motion doesn't fully understand it and has never done it.
Yes, electrolysis wastes energy in the process, but what is not taken into account is the potential energy released in the form of hydrogen. It's like lifting a heavy garage door to release a Lotus, the two actions are unrelated.
The other thing is that if one uses a 555 timer to pulse the electricity going into the system (thereby converting it to an AC system) at the right frequency, the water molecule ruptures apart into Oxygen and Hydrogen quite easily and efficiently. Tesla found that everything can be tuned to a frequency and rattled apart, even his own building.
Short story long, I have made a few hydrogen fuel cells and it's easy. Getting it to work in a car required three other things: The electronics I mentioned, a special fuel delivery system similar to a propane carb and a drastic adjustment of the engine timing. A stainless exhaust system wouldn't hurt either.
So, you're creating Hydrogen (the smallest, lightest, most flammable element known to man) under the hood as you need it and not carrying around dangerous tanks of the stuff or worrying about where to get it. Stan Meyer who discovered this created a dune buggy that could go coast to coast on 22 gallons.
This is the answer we've been waiting for and what I would say to any skeptic is: You know that anything that burns can be used as fuel, now let me show you how I can make this water burn.
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Now what you are describing here DOES sound like perpetual motion (impossible). Hydrogen is no more flammable than any other combustible element or chemical. Indeed there are high explosives that are more "flammable" than hydrogen.
Water (H2O) is split apart by electroysis to create Hydrogem (2) and Oxygen (1).
When hydrogen burns the exact opposite reaction takes place. 2 Hydrogens and 1 Oxygen create H2O -- water.
So electroysis is the exact opposite reaction. By burning the hydrogen you get back exactly what you put in, except for friction and energy losses (and escaped hydrogen).
Hydrogen fuel cells work. They powered the Apollo moon mission way back in the 1960's. If you see the movie Apollo 13 you will see how the Apollo spacecraft is losing electrical power because it is losing oxygen. hydrogen plus oxygen is creating electricity in the fuel cells.
But hydrogen will only distribute energy generated somewhere else. You still have to get the energy from somewhere.
But that's a good thing. We can generate electricity using ACTIVE (aggressive) geothermal (drilling down 30,000 feet to reach hot spots instead of passive geothermal where the heat comes to the surface), hydro, solar, nuclear, coal, etc. This can be used to create hydrogen.