June 6, 2007 8:28 AM PDT
From turkey waste, a new fuel and a new fight
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Every Country in the World has a great responsibility to control the further release & emission of Green House Gases from Fossil Oil/Fuels and to look for the really clean & cheap alternative fuels to replace Petrol/Diesel/Coal/Natural Gas in order to reduce the incidences of Global Warming that will cause hardships & deaths in many Natural Disasters and adversed climatic changes. You cannot simply replace a greatly polluting fuel like Coal or Natural Gas with another greatly polluting Turkey's Litter
Obviously Water holds a better promise as the Alternative Fuel
Alternative fuel for thought:-
In our school days we have learnt in Physics that it is possible to split water into its basic atomic components with the application of electricity but even many great scientists overlooked the fact that Water is the better and safer storage of power, a Tremendous Amount of Power is stored efficiently, the promise water has as an alternative fuel has been unlimited using a simple process of using electrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen only when required, where both the hydrogen & oxygen (HHO) gases power to drive a car's internal combustion engine will also continuously recharge the battery that originally did the electrolysis splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen and also the hydrogen gases will be only produced when needed just before starting the car's internal combustion engine and the electrolysis process will be switched-off when switching off the said car's engine at the same time. This said hydrogen gases-run engines will run cars, SUVs, trucks, buses, trains and airplanes so cheaply and successfully that no other alternative fuels would ever be needed. The same principles will also be applicable to run the present Coal or Gas Fired Power Stations which will save most money from fuel costs and they can reduce their present tariffs by 80% with hydrogen gases (HHO) as their final fuel source, the released of Greenhouses gases, CO2 & NO2, would also be eliminated. But these technologies will be suppressed owing to big business money and political scams from Oil Producers and other vested interests. They might even commit murder to suppress these inventions from gaining popularity and flourishing successfully.
Please watch related report of the Water Car Inventor:- Links Here:-
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A car that splits the water by electrolysis then uses it to run the car is just another form of electric car, and is likely no more efficient than an electric motor.
You need to study up on the chemistry behind it. Hydrogen may be a reasonable storage medium, but water is not. In the process, it from water to hydrogen and oxygen, back to water. In a perfect world, this is a zero loss, zero gain equation, but every way I know of has some heat loss.