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Old 07-12-2008, 09:09 PM   #3 (permalink)
schola
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Brutha is right. No one denies that electrolysis works. You seem to think this is something revolutionary but it is not.

Scientists have been doing it for more than 100 years. I remember my high school chemistry teacher did it in class one day and captured the hydrogen in a balloon. Then turned out all the light and he ignited the balloon (from a safe distance), and the balloon went pop! in a little explosion of flame. Cool stuff. But nothing out of the ordinary.

It was an average run of the mill science experiment and he never claimed it was free energy or anything of that sort, because it wasn't.

Hydrogen from electrolysis functions as a battery, not a fuel source. It stores energy until it is burned at which point the energy is expended and it turns back into water. It needs electricity to work. Where does this electricity come from? From the local power plant. So hydrogen technology is only as clean as the power source. If you are using a coal-fired power plant to power the electrolysis process, it isn't all that "clean."

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