Originally posted by wingman77
reply to post by NRen2k5
What's giving you the energy to move the car is the HHO molecules being used in the combustion process.
There is no HHO molecule. The gas we’re talking about is more or less a stoichiometric mixture of H2 and O2. But for the sake of simplicity and your
understanding, I’ll call the gas “HHO” for the remainder of this post.
The car will quickly run out of HHO gas and stall, because if it’s using the HHO gas to power the car, then there isn’t enough energy left over to
keep separating the water into more gas.
It’s mind-numbingly simple. There is a certain amount of energy in the chemical bonds in water. It takes exactly the same amount of energy to break
this bond as you get from making it. So even in a perfect world, it would take as much energy to electrolyze water as you would get from burning HHO.
Meaning you would have no energy left over to power a car, only enough to keep separating and recombining water.
And in the
real world, you always waste bit of energy in any process. In fact in electrolysis you waste a lot of energy. Even when you hit
water with AC at some particularly sweet frequency and even when you add chemicals to speed the electrolysis.
Which means that onboard electrolysis is a losing proposition. You’re using more energy than you’re getting.
This doesn't violate the law of conservation of energy, we need to find out how much energy it takes for this process to brake the chemical
bonds in water.
It might be a radio frequency generator running at 42khz; it has to do with sonochemistry , chemical kinetics, and resonance.
Details, details.
I wonder where the 42,000 Hz figure comes from, anyway. Experimentation? Someone’s guess as to the angular velocity of valence electrons in oxygen?
And it’s supposed to be a resonance thing, right?
Well, following Problem 28.3
here will give you an idea as to the angular velocity of
electrons. The angular velocity of an electron of a hydrogen atom in Herz is:
1 cycle / (1.52 * (10^(-16))) seconds
That’s about 6.6×10^15 Hz. That’s 6.6 petaherz. That’s incredibly fast. Do you know of a function generator that can generate a frequency that
high?
And remember, harmonics work on multiples, not factors. Let alone how resonance works.
Anyway, the plain fact of the matter is that, no matter how sophisticated your method, it will always take more energy to break down water than you
get from recombining it. Period. Point final. End of story.
[edit on 3-11-2007 by NRen2k5]