Have you seen this!?! Burning saltwater

[Monty J. Harder]

On 9/11/07, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You can not get more energy out of a system than you put in to it.
> There are NO exceptions, Get over it.  The best you can hope for is
> 100% efficiency, and that would still only be a hope.
>

Only a hope, because 100% efficiency isn't possible.  There's always some
loss.

That isn't to say that the Kanzius (what's with pronouncing his name
"Kansas", like the "i" isn't even there?) Process can't be more efficient
than, say electrolysis at extracting H from water.

It's been said before, but it bears repeating.  Unless you're doing nuclear
fusion, Hydrogen is not an energy SOURCE.  It is a medium for storing or
transmitting energy, which should not create any additional pollution to
produce from some other energy source, nor to expend the stored energy.  So
once you've generated all that electricity, if demand drops (cooler temps so
not as much AC needed), you can use excess power to extract Hydrogen from
water.  The inefficiency of converting the power to H might well be worth
it, especially for nuke electricity, where the marginal cost of running the
plant at maximum vs a lower level isn't all that much.
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