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A comment on Ask HN: Running a car on water. Plausible or just more bad internet science?.

Re:Ask HN: Running a car on water. Plausible or just more ba... by cjg on Friday May 29, 2009 @09:54AM (#632039)
Sounds like bad science too me. The energy put into breaking a hydrogen to oxygen bond will be the same as the energy release when forming the bond - which is what happens when hydrogen and oxygen is burnt.

Just think conservation of energy.

Having said that - it might be possible to run a car on water if you had a fusion reactor that would fit in your car. Pull the heavy hydrogen from the water and away you go. That technology is still a way off.

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Re:Ask HN: Running a car on water. Plausible or just more ba... by cubicle67 on Friday May 29, 2009 @10:07AM (#632071)
The idea is that by having rods of certain dimensions, and by pulsing the current at exactly the right frequency, it is possible to break the bonds using less energy that normally required.
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