Hydrogen, anyone try it?
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Physics states energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
This system takes energy from the battery to create hydrogen which is burned by the engine.
However, the engine must work harder to turn the alternator which has to generate more current to replace the energy taken from the battery to make the hydrogen.
So, unless I'm missing something here, where does that extra energy come from?
This system takes energy from the battery to create hydrogen which is burned by the engine.
However, the engine must work harder to turn the alternator which has to generate more current to replace the energy taken from the battery to make the hydrogen.
So, unless I'm missing something here, where does that extra energy come from?
But, I seem to remember that chemical reactions make this a little fuzzy. The electricity is breaking the Hydrogen to Oxygen bond. The energy in the engine is the combustion of H2 with O2, so as long as breaking the covalent bond in the water is less than the energy given off by burning that H2 in air, it would be a net gain.