There's some details here
green.yahoo.com/index.php?q=node/1570
using RF to split up a water molecule to allow the hydrogen to be burnt. They're asking for research money. Now this is outside my specialist field, but I guess that the energy required to split up the molecule would be greater than that released when it's burnt. All the burning is doing is recombining the molecule that's split by the RF.
Am I missing something obvious?
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Certainly plenty of water around :-(
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Unfortuneatly not , not fresh unsalted water.The wars of the future will be for water,if you can device a way to desalinate sea water without using vast amounts of energy then thats the winner.
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Does this mean if you have a few whisky's and pee in the tank you would have a higher octane (or what ever the equivalent would be for water) of water and the car would perform better ?
*Note I am not saying you should drive after the whisky's and a pee.
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My 6 year old son reckons water-powered cars are the way to go.
I encourage him to develop the idea, as it will make him (and me) very rich!!
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"The wars of the future will be for water"
A long-time commonly-quoted prediction that has yet to come true. When people talk about water shortages, they use figures for daily requirements that are the same as those in the west. As the western ones are usages by rich people with intensive agriculture and large manufacturing outputs, they don't relate in any way at all to what is actually needed. Another ecological scaremongering that has seeped into the national consciousness as fact.
As to energy from splitting water; it is possible that this is true. I won't be buying any shares in it, that's all.
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Nothing new under the sun then?
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4076811.stm
inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarssteama.htm
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Call me cynical, but any research cash they raise will be matched or doubled by the petroleum industry to bury this as deep as they can...
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Ian G,
Or, alternatively, they'll get a scientist to look into the energy in minus the energy out and forget all about it.
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There is a fuel closely related to water that has been used for some years.
It's hydrogen peroxide - - h2o2 - ie water with an additional oxygen molecule.
It's been used in rocket motors, pump engines (typically in rockets), and - somewhat modified - in german u-boats at the end of WWII.
It is carbon free (!) and doesn't need any air - hence its use in airless environments.
It's not a fuel you'd ever want on your skin.
I'm not for one minute suggesting that I want a car fuelled by h202 :-)
All the above is a gross simplification.
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