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People have talked about Hydrolizing water to then burn it back to water for many decades. This guy is not new news. I have seen him on TV before when he was just pushing the torch. I'm not saying he's a fraud , just that he's been around before. I think in fact he's legitimate.
One way to look at the energy balance is simply that it takes more energy to crack the water than you get back when you burn the Hydrogen and Oxygen back together. In this way its a net loss. Now suppose you burn say coal , to produce the energy to make this HHO and burn the HHO in cars. Well now maybe it makes economic sense if the unit of energy per amount of coal costs the same or less than the mobil fuel source HHO. In other words you build a big coal fired plant to make the electricity to manufactue the more portable HHO fuel.
Now leap ahead , someone mentioned solar power to crack the HHO. That may be a good idea. You have solar cells generating electricity all day that is at too low a power level to say run your whole house. However , it could be used to fill storagae tanks with HHO. So the HHO acts as a way to store the solar energy and its a portable form that can be burned to generate very high power levels as needed for short periods of time vs the low power level but long duration solar.
Now fast forward again to Hydrogen Fusion reactors. When we get them , and we will soemday , then there is no end to the amount of energy we can generate. the problem is getting it from the hydrogen fusion reactor to your house and car. So you generate electricity at the reactor facility and then use it to crack the hater to hydrogen and oxygen. You then burn them at home for heat , in your car for transportation and in hydrogen fuel Cells for electricity. Whereever the primary source of the energy is , most would agree that cracking and reburning water will be the way to make that energy useful and portable for people to use at home , on the roads , etc.
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