wanna run your fine fto on water instead of fuel??????

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Its got to be better than petrol... internal combustion engines are at best 30% efficient - ie only 30% of the total energy provided by petrol is utilised to make us move, the rest is lost in heat, noise & other by-prodcuts.
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just thought id dig this up again

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a couple of nights ago on a current affair or something they showed two guys...lawn mower mechanics that had done this conversion on an old falcon.It seemed to be working,they did a short test over 100 klm and the car used 5.** litres .they had a similar falconand it used 20.** litres, which seems to much.
did any one else see it?
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gpat, that sounds like utter bullshit.

Oh, wait... it was on Today Tonight? What a surprise.

It's as simple as this: the energy you get back from burning hydrogen WILL NEVER be more than the energy it takes to separate the hydrogen and oxygen from water.

The article supplanter posted has a good analogy - when you break open a piggy bank, there will NEVER be more money in it than what you put into it; it's just not physically possible.
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nicholas wrote:gpat, that sounds like utter bullshit.

Oh, wait... it was on Today Tonight? What a surprise.

It's as simple as this: the energy you get back from burning hydrogen WILL NEVER be more than the energy it takes to separate the hydrogen and oxygen from water.

The article supplanter posted has a good analogy - when you break open a piggy bank, there will NEVER be more money in it than what you put into it; it's just not physically possible.
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