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Originally Posted by brassmonkey
so they bought the technology that was suppose to be put in cars years ago   |
There is so much debate on this. The most popular to claim the ability to extract hydrogen *efficiently* was a guy named Stanley Meyer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-fuelled_car
Most scientists debunk it as non-sense. What I think is interesting is he was able to get patents on it so he convinced the patent office.
Then a huge interest is in partial petroleum and water mixture where it does need gas/oil/etc. but then hydrogen is somehow extracted and used efficiently from the water.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/...Exchanger/info
If you ever read any of these ideas, they are always debunked. The general gist is that it requires too much energy for too little result making the process worthless. But the navy apparently now believes it is viable. But they are making a liquid jet fuel, for later use, and what everyone, to date, is trying to create that phenomena within the engine itself.
I suppose the big question would be is.. how the Navy is extracting the hydrogen? Nuclear?? Or have they stumbled on something else...