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Originally Posted by dave90210
(Post 14334573)
Please explain.
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Ok even with very good step up transformers you are in need of a large amount of electricity to really produce a significant amount of hydrogen. You are almost dealing with a loss of energy at this point, you are putting in almost more than you will get out. Yes you can do it with even a 9 volt battery but it will produce next to none.
Next issue is many use aluminum rods, actually plates work much better but they must be layered and separated by very thin plastic washers, though Pyrex, glass, or heat resistant polymers would be best as plastic can start to degrade after running it for a bit.
Now many including the "murdered" inventor said he used a certain frequency to pulse the electricity. This is a sticking point and nobody seems to know the exact frequency and well the dude is dead and his patents do not say the frequency. Though pulsing the electricity is indeed the best route over a steady stream. Though keep in mind original guy also used rods instead of plates which is less surface area and thus less production.
You will have a heating problem to deal with and overcome. Yes the liquid heats and gets hotter and hotter. If you really apply a cooling method you again loose a little more production power in your creation.
Also few will admit but if you try hydrogen creation in regular tap water after a very short period of time scum will appear on the surface and in your water. This is due to the impurities of the water. Your only safe bet and sure fire way to not have to deal with this is by using distilled water only. Yet another cost.
Now a good process will indeed produce hydrogen and usable energy that can be burned from its production. You are lucky to be pulling even a watt or two's worth in a short period of time. Of course you could allow it to build up first (heat issues again, plus storage issues) and then you effectively have a supply of energy that can be converted again. One of the reasons NASA uses it is it is more cost efficient to send it to space and that most of the equipment used operates on super tiny amounts of electricity. Though they would generate more power if they could pull a streamer behind themselves in the shuttle in space (different topic).
Nobody is really trying to hide this technology. Hell people are actively looking at hydrogen cars and the real stopping issue is the infrastructure. Yet adding a small little tank to your car is not going to do shit but make someone a few hundred dollars.
Efficient hydrogen production is a reality. It just uses a few methods to help curtail the other side issues. Obviously if you can generate the electricity via hydroelectric then you are ahead of the game as that is also clean and at same time is renewable. Using the sun and the huge as reflectors they now have (check Spain, Australia) also produce a great deal of power that could in turn be pushed through water and stored as hydrogen. Though for the most part unless you have a windmill, a solar farm, a waterwheel, or some other renewable energy that is free or nearly free you just end up using power from grid and most of that comes from coal.
Right now though is a time right for scammers. People may easily get suckered into some device that is a water battery yet it just costs like 15 bucks per kilowatt hour or some shit assuming it can even produce that much on a steady bases.
Questions and sorry it is a little all over the place. My night was horrid and today is recovery day.