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Subject:Re: Running on Tap Water (was Re: Attention California Vanagonites)
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:14:00 -0400
At 04:05 PM 7/11/2002, David Brodbeck wrote:
>This has to be a scam.  Yeah, you can electrolyse water to get hydrogen
>and oxygen, and you can run an engine on that, no problem.  The problem is
>you have to put in at least as much energy to do the electrolysis as you
>get back when you burn it, because when you burn it, the end product
>is...WATER.

Three laws of thermodynamics, restated so I can understand them:
1) You can't win.
2) You can't break even on any hand/throw/whatever.
3) You can't leave the game.

Maybe we should get branding irons made up (cf Stephenson's _Snow Crash_)?

david

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