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Originally Posted by eboyer
You take salt water (Sea Water). Apply an energy source (radio waves) and whala! Hydrogen. Apply heat. Whala!. Flame.
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ArmchairGeneral is missing my point. The point is, you do not burn the hydrogen. The point is you use the process to free hydogren from salt water to dirve fuel cells from sea water (which of course is vey abundant). It is obvious the process must be economical. Resources and it's costs used vs power supplied.
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Um. Right.
That said, you're still missing the idea here. The burning of hydrogen is a redox reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, releasing heat energy. The waste product is water. Hydrogen fuel cells use a redox reaction between hydrogen and oxygen to produce electric current. The waste product is water. Notice any similarities? It's the same reaction: 2H2+O2 -> 2H2O.
When you split water into hydrogen and oxygen, and then recombine them into water, the net energy production will be
zero or negative. The heat from burning hydrogen or the energy of the electrons moving from hydrogen to oxygen will be less than the energy of the radio waves that split the water in the first place. If you find otherwise, you'll either win a Nobel Prize, or be slaughtered by hordes of enraged physicists.
12-17-2007, 00:21 AM
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