[Hidden-tech] Env/Tech: Water As Fuel

[Tom Kopec]

As is usual, the efficiency question remains unanswered..

This requires energy input to work (to break apart the water), and at the 
end of burning the resulting gas you have water again.. so, if it produces 
more energy than it uses, you could run it on it's own output and have a 
perpetual-motion machine. OTOH, if it produces less energy than it uses (in 
keeping with the laws of thermodynamics as we know them), then it's just 
another energy transport mechanism.

I wish him luck, and I do hope he finds something interesting and useful 
here.. but given that he seems to be willing to (at best) not correct 
omission of or (at worst) actively hide the fact that a lot of energy has 
to get put into the system to get something out, I'll stay on the skeptical 
side of the fence for now.

...tom

At 06:05 PM 6/11/2006, Shel Horowitz wrote:

>Remarkable Fox-Florida segment on water-powered welding and vehicles. I 
>was skeptical enough to play on Google; it's apparently real: