Re: Breakthrough harnesses energy from water??

From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 10:40:34 MST


Anders Sandberg wrote:

>O...
>
>>from the molecular reattachment phase
>
>So they electrolyze water, then burn the oxygen and hydrogen to get the
>water plus the energy of formation. And then repeat the process.
>Conveniently forgetting that it takes an equal amount of energy to do
>electrolysis, and that there are inevitable inefficiencies.
>...
>
But plants do that all the time, so that's not proof of a scam. OTOH,
plants collect solar energy at a rather low rate, so this, if it's true,
probably also operates rather slowly. I wonder if it would compete with
solar cells.

OTOH, the page sure sounds like a scam. But that could just be their PR
guy.



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