[TR] Fw: Hydrogen fuel.

Randall tr3driver at ca.rr.com
Sat Aug 2 08:38:50 MDT 2008


> Einstein said energy is neither created or destroyed.  An 
> alternator converts mechanical energy to electrical energy.  
> There is no free lunch.

And it's worse than that, because an alternator also converts mechanical
energy to heat.  Thus, the electrical energy you get out is only a rather
small fraction of the mechanical energy you put in.  

Electrolysis is also rather inefficient; there is less potential energy in
the hydrogen/oxygen produced than you put into the process.  Takes a fair
amount of heat just to vaporize the water, plus the remaining water gets
hot.

Fundamental laws of thermodynamics :

1) You can't win.

2) You can't even break even (no process is 100% efficient)

3) There's no way out of the game.

Randall


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