From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 02:15:30 MST
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:58:20PM -0800, Zero Powers wrote:
> OK folks, make sure your B.S. filters are on good and tight. Either this
> press release is a complete hoax, a misleading exageration or it's paradigm
> shift time. Your thoughts, insight, input please. (By the way, happy
> belated new year!)
It is a perpetual motion machine. From the site:
>The key component of the Genesis Project technology is the Genesis
>gCell, which through a series of electro-chemical processes separates
>hydrogen and oxygen molecules in water. The resulting gas molecules can
>either be burned cleanly as a replacement for natural gas or various
>other traditional forms of fuel, or may be remarried within Genesis
>eCells (an advanced fuel cell) to generate large amounts of electrical
>current. When both Genesis gCells and eCells are combined, the entire
>process becomes self-generating, recycling both water and electricity
>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.
It is a hoax/scam. But it is the first perpetual motion machine I have
seen that works on electrolysis.
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