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Subject:Re: REQ - Dead Idle Stabilizer Control Unit Donation
From:John Bange
Date:Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:21:00 -0700

>
> You
> have a fuel tank full of water, it gets processed, the hydrogen and
> oxygen are separated, moved to a place of advantage (combustion chanber)
> burned, and out comes steam from the exhaust.

Wha? The amount of energy you get from recombining O2 and H2 is less than
the energy it takes to separate them out of the water. Surely you
misunderstood, and he's working on (say) a catalytic H2 cracker that sits in
the garage and runs of natural gas or something, then fills the vihicle tank
with H2.

--
John Bange
'90 Vanagon
"We'd tell a monkey how to peel a banana, if he said he was peeling one in a
Vanagon."