MadSci Network: Engineering
Query:

Re: Can water be used as fuel in a car?

Date: Wed Apr 1 20:35:12 1998
Posted By: Matthew Buynoski, Senior Member Technical Staff,Advanced Micro Devices
Area of science: Engineering
ID: 890671271.Eg
Message:

Nice try, but what you are proposing won't work.  The hydrogen in water is 
bound to the oxygen atom. To take the water apart costs an amount of energy 
equal to what you would get from burning the hydrogen later (and thus 
forming water again). So, after the inevitable processing losses (2nd law 
of thermodynamics) I end up with less energy available than I started with
before I took the water apart.  

 



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