posted on Dec, 2 2008 @ 07:20 AM
Reply To NREM2k5
Hoaxes, all of them. Water is not a fuel. No matter how you break water down into 2×H2 and O2, in an ideal system, you’ll only get as much energy
out of burning it as you put in. Klein and Meyer and their kind are con artists. Their vehicles run off of some other kind of energy, whether it be a
flywheel, a hydrogen tank or plain old gasoline.
This hydrogen thing is the 21st century’s equivalent to the 250 mpg carburetor of the 1930s and 1940s. Back when county fairs were the most
entertainment the poor rural folks ever got, there was no shortage of hustlers selling those magical carburetors. In one instance, it was found the
“inventor” had drilled a very small hole in the carb’s base and was feeding gasoline through a small pipe that was disguised as part of the
automatic choke mechanism. Everybody “knew” that the Standard Oil Company bought off those inventors.
The most mysterious device - to me - was the IONIZER* that would double your gas mileage! That device was installed by cutting the fuel line and
inserting a 4 inch long device about 2 inches in outside diameter which contained a coil. With a wire running to your engine’s distributor the
operating theory was the high voltage would energize the encircling coil which would in turn ionize the gasoline molecules and Viola! you got more
power! By the time the gullible buyer got home and installed the device, the hustler was gone to the next county fair.
Hydrogen as a fuel got a big boost in the mid 1980s after the OPEC embargo following the 1973 Yom Kippur War. It does burn clean and its only
by-product is water. The problem is 2 fold. First, it is expensive - energy-wise - to derive hydrogen from water. So much so that today all the
commercially available hydrogen gas comes from petroleum. Crude oil.
The insurmountable problems facing hydrogen as a viable fuel for private autos are these: 1) Nearly non-existent retail distribution network, and 2)
the need to pack a lot of hydrogen into a small space which gives us a 200 liter 3,000 PSI fuel tank in the back seat of the car. Wow!
*Ionization is the physical process of converting an atom or molecule into an ion by adding or removing charged particles such as electrons or
other ions. This process works slightly differently depending on whether an ion with a positive or a negative electric charge is being produced. A
positively charged ion is produced when an electron bonded to an atom (or molecule) absorbs enough energy to escape from the electric potential
barrier that originally confined it, thus breaking the bond and freeing it to move. The amount of energy required is called the ionization
potential.
Applying only classical physics and the Bohr model of the atom makes both atomic and molecular ionization entirely deterministic, that is every
problem will always have a definite and computable answer. According to classical physics it is absolutely necessary that the energy of the electron
exceeds the energy difference of the potential barrier it is trying to pass. As a concept this idea should make sense: the same way a person can not
jump over a one meter wall without jumping at least one meter off the ground, an electron can not get over a 13.6 eV potential barrier without at
least 13.6 eV of energy.
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