Could seawater fuel your car?

Quote from where? This must be pure snake oil.

Tom

 

This got kicked around a few months back, with the obvious conclusion.
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Dammit!! I've been working on this for over 30 years. I've got it all down pat except the part where I get salt water to burn.

 

Well, there's using Aluminum + Gallium, mixed with water (seawater?) to produce "on demand" Hydrogen.

The "spent" cartridge gets recycled.

Problem 1: Aluminum is not a green metal, though a market for it would make for greater recycling from dumps.

Problem 2: Recycling the spent cartridges, unlike batteries that lasts for years, most people would need a cartridge per day.

Problem 3: Greedy cartridge makers - just look at inkjet printers

The only a Hydrogen economy can exist, is using Geothermal in Hawaii or Greenland to produce it cheap. Everywhere else, windmills, solar, hydro.

Catalysts, like ordinary seawater, produce more hydrogen per volume of regular water.

Now, how can you compress Hydrogen in large volumes, and ship it to meet demand? How indeed.

Yet producing electricity in a green manner, and distributing it, is very easy.

I really love the idea of supercaps or ultracaps, that charge slowly off 110 or 220 at home, building up amps, then a quick transfer to your car's ultra capacitors within a few minutes.

Ever been scuba diving? How they fill the air tanks? With a BIG pressurized air tank. Same idea, with the ultra capacitors.

Now they just need to harness lightning for the refueling stations. Cue from the Stardust movie?

 

San Fran is looking into using water power.... and its real... hahaha... just that they are planning to use the current to power generators to produce electricity.

Better hope than these snake oil.

 

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Home DIY cartridge refills. One syringe...big boom. :lol:

 

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Read up more on this. The guy is basically making Brown's gas, H2O2, which burns quite strongly, probably a better gas to use than pure Hydrogen.

Now, instead of using hydrolysis, he's using a microwave emitter. Thus, energy in is much higher than energy out.

I guess it shows that anything can get a press release and spread everywhere depending on how it's written, and, how many people never understood high school level physics & chemistry.

 

Was going to say, wasn't this already "invented" the whole "cheap energy" from water bit some time ago... ehh another way to do it I guess.

Interesting is that while the "chemist" is claiming that the heat can run a sterling engine, which is great.. should have just hooked up an electric motor though you'll end up using less energy, none of the chemists and such working at the polymer's lab ever are quoted into saying this would be good for an engine.

 

Was going to say, wasn't this already "invented" the whole "cheap energy" from water bit some time ago... ehh another way to do it I guess.

Interesting is that while the "chemist" is claiming that the heat can run a sterling engine, which is great.. should have just hooked up an electric motor though you'll end up using less energy, none of the chemists and such working at the polymer's lab ever are quoted into saying this would be good for an engine.