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Re: water as fuel, not so crazy

To: Gary McCormick <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com>
Subject: Re: water as fuel, not so crazy
From: Adam Bradley <ambradley@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:51:50 -0800 (PST)
Gary,

You're right!  How could I expect it to work without a hand grenade and
a pineapple?  Of course, we need one of those Jacob's ladder thingies
going 'zzzzzap' with a spark going up it.


--- Gary McCormick <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com> wrote:
> ...and that buys you what? Burning gasoline to produce electricity to
> electrolyze water
> into hydrogen and oxygen to burn? There are energy losses due to
> inefficiencies all along
> that chain. This is NOT a potential energy source for an automobile.
> As for welding, if
> you've got the electricity to use to electrolyze water into H and O,
> use it to run an arc
> welder instead.
> 
> BTW - I got a laugh from the bit on one "Brown's Gas" website I
> checked out about the
> "reduced volume" of the Brown's Gas producing a vacuum implosion, and
> the "extra available
> atomic-level energy" that produces "'plasma-type temperatures" that
> don't show up as heat.
> HA! LOL, ROF LOL.
> 
> Gary McCormick
> "Trying to stop laughing, wiping the tears from my eyes..."
> San Jose, CA
> 
> Adam Bradley wrote:
> 
> > What if you used a small gasoline engine - say 1600cc or 2000cc -
> to
> > run the electrolysis machine, then fed its hydrogen and water
> directly
> > into the "Brown's Gas implosion engine"?
> >
> > --- Gary McCormick <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com> wrote:
> > > One can split water into its component hydrogen and oxygen atoms
> by
> > > electrolysis - but
> > > don't go out and retrofit the ol' Roadster with a water tank and
> a
> > > generator just yet. I
> > > think this can be confirmed by someone on the list who remembers
> > > their Chem and Physics
> > > better, but I have a feeling that you'd be running at a deficit
> if
> > > you tried to burn the
> > > hydrogen and oxygen to run a generator to break the water into
> > > hydrogen and oxygen to make
> > > fuel for the engine - smacks of perpetual motion!
> > >
> > > Gary McCormick
> > > San Jose, CA
> > >
> > > "C. Halsted" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have read literature from a company that uses a process to
> change
> > > the
> > > > molecular formula of water and it becomes combustible. they
> even
> > > use this
> > > > process for welding and can do things like fuse glass rod to
> brick,
> > > etc. put
> > > > "Brown's Gas" into a search engine and see what you come up
> with.
> > > >
> > > > Craig Halsted
> > > > roadsters and
> > > >
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