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  • From: ERDA Institute <erda@nor.com.au>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Hydrogen was: regional diets
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:44:11 +1000

on 17/6/03 1:31 PM, Lee Flier at lflier@mindspring.com wrote:

> ======= At 2003-06-17, 08:40:00 Robyn wrote: =======
>
>
>> 1. Hydrogen fuel in the form of 'Brown's Gas' simply involves a 10v battery
>> charge to separate hydrogen from water - a very efficient fuel source - i
>
> Right. And the energy to charge the battery comes from... where? There's
> the
> rub. It takes several times the energy to extract hydrogen from water, than
> the hydrogen will provide.

A couple of torch batteries will provide sufficient energy to separate the
hydrogen - couldn't drive from Sydney to Cairns on those....
Rechargable batteries would be recharged from the hydrogen-fueled engine.
Robyn





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