> Hi Ard,
> Gee, I wish I understood what you are trying to say here...
> Yes, the Hydrogen Bond IS a very strong attachment. I don't believe that
> I was trying to find any kind of common ground between crude oil and
> water other than to use them as an analogy, i.e.: an example to make the
> concept easier for you to understand. Obviously I failed there though
> because your use of the word "ludicrous" makes it apparent that the
> simple beauty of my analogy has escaped you. Sorry.
> MJ
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>> If the second law holds true (as applied here) then fossil fuels would
>be
>> useless to us because it would take just as much energy to refine crude
>oil
>> into gasoline as the burning of gasoline would produce.
>> My point here is that if you look at the process of separating water
>into
>> H2 and O2 as "refining" the raw material into a usable fuel it is much
>easier
>> to understand how, by improving our refining methods, we could indeed
make
>> water into a usable fuel source.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Johnston <enki@csrlink.net>
To: <enki@csrlink.net> <ardvark@easynet.co.uk> Interact
<Interact@Keelynet.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: H2O Fuel
Ok, that is what you wrote, how did I mis-understand?
fossil fules are energy stores, when a fuel is burnt it produces exhaust
gasses, when hydrogen reacts with oxygen the exhaust is H20. Take a petrol
engine, run it and collect all the exhaust gasses and try to re-combine them
in to a usable fule.
That is my analogy, now please don't patronise me until you have at least
learned the basic principals of physics.
Ardvark.
ardvark@easynet.co.uk
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