We used to add lye IIRC to accelerate the process and only captured
the gas coming off of one electrode, damn if I remember which one
tho', was it pos being hydrogen? Or the other way around?
Lester
Who stopped paying attention in PChem
On May 16, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Glen Byrns wrote:
> Of course the gas exploded, it was hydrogen and oxygen. Problem
> was, and
> is, you will put more energy into separating the water into hydrogen
> and
> oxygen than you will get burning it. Its the old thermodynamic law
> of "no
> free lunch". Rip-offs like this make people who paid attention in
> chemistry
> class laugh and laugh. Everybody knows that this won't work unless
> you also
> put one of those little turbolator fans in your intake and a bis-a$$
> magnet
> on your fuel line. Then, maybe.........
>
> Glen Byrns
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