Reply #16: Hydrogen from renewable resources makes sense. [View All]

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I'm not sure what benefits there are to carrying around the oxygen, since that is freely available. Burning less carbon is also a benefit to the environment, so I'm for that.

My main concern here is that people might think of water as a fuel. It's not. I still don't think there are any efficiencies added by using the Brown's gas. In the long run I am for using hydrogen as a fuel, as the technical limitations are overcome.

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There is nothing new in these pages. The water fuel makes some unsupported claims for the H and O gasses that says there are allotropic and isometric forms. They say it is "theorized." What could they be? Atomic oxygen is very energetic but extremely corrosive and dangerous. And then there is ozone, O₃, which may have a slight energy advantage, remembering that the energy must added to the system.

The other page talks about Mercedes vehicles that use fuel cells, a technology that goes back over 150 years, but due to technological limitations has found limited practical use. I'm all for technological progress, but I don't see anything new here. I just don't want people getting the idea that water is an energy source.

--IMM