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Originally Posted by samblaze
Hmm, good info. It definitely stretches my grasp of chemistry to its limits. I need to run this by someone with more expertise. Some of his energy bond reformation calculi seem a little off to me. Although he's right about the basic principle of requiring a certain amount of energy to produce energy through electrolysis. Two things I have to consider:
1. The system I am experimenting with would use electrical energy from an extra battery, in turn being charged by a larger alternator, which is drawing its energy from (the now much more efficient) combustion process. The 576kJ output (from plain H20) that he speaks of is about right. But the input energy of 2765 kJ I have to do more research to verify.
2. No mention of electrolysing a catalytic fluid, as opposed to just plain H20. Wouldn't there be a significantly higher yield of monoatomic hydrogen compared to just water? Again this would need to be verified. But the 'blow torch' video would lead me to believe so.
I aways did hate chemistry in school (Physics was my thing)!
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I'm def. mo chemistry major either but what is this:
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99% of the gasoline does undergo combustion. A 300% gain in efficiency would imply that we are now getting 399% of the theoretically-retrievable energy that the gasoline contains (well, actually more than 399% because we also need to cover the losses from the electrolysis). This is just asinine and Carnot says otherwise. Energy can not be created from nothing -- the gasoline can NOT give more than 100% of what it has.
If i'm not mistaken he's wrong we don't use 99% of our gasoline more like 33%. Also he is not taking into consideration that all cars do not get the best amount of oxygen for combustion due to the fact that our air is only about 1/3 oxygen and with this process you won't only be "injecting" hydrogen, you will also be "injecting" oxygen, making it more efficiant. Can you prob. say over thinking, KISS(keep it simple stupid). The problem is that most people draw up a conclusion before undergoing tests and having any concrete evidence.