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Subject:Re: Water Powered Cars
From:Allan Streib
Date:Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:51:06 -0500

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:24:42 -0800, "Scott Daniel - Shazam"
<scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> said:

>  It may be abundant, but I think getting lots of pure H is not easy.

Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen is "easy" from a
chemistry/engineering standpoint, but takes more energy than you get
back when you burn it.  As a fuel, hydrogen is better thought of as an
energy "storage" medium than an energy "source"; it's really very much
just another kind of battery.

Allan
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