Looks like Sen. Domenici (shown helping arrange a government grant) sees these guys as a way to bring pork home to the state.
As for the physics of it, total BS. You can heat water enough to get a plasma of hydrogen ions and hydroxyl radicals (HHO) but it's going to cool down damn fast and the energy goes into heat, not work. As a cutting torch I buy it. But the water is a working fluid, like in hydraulics, not a power source.
There's no way you can power a car usefully with this. You could do straight hydrogen but you're still burning something to break down the water.
I'm sure there's some oil, coal, and nuclear execs watching this and laughing themselves sick at how money that could fund competition is being thrown down this rathole.
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:08 am (UTC)As for the physics of it, total BS. You can heat water enough to get a plasma of hydrogen ions and hydroxyl radicals (HHO) but it's going to cool down damn fast and the energy goes into heat, not work. As a cutting torch I buy it. But the water is a working fluid, like in hydraulics, not a power source.
There's no way you can power a car usefully with this. You could do straight hydrogen but you're still burning something to break down the water.
I'm sure there's some oil, coal, and nuclear execs watching this and laughing themselves sick at how money that could fund competition is being thrown down this rathole.