Quote Originally Posted by Pureghetto View Post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX6CnNc3CFU&eurl=

What turned out to be a cheap way of powering a blowtorch can possibly become a pollution free means of powering..well, anything! I think it's amazing, and definitely expect that Japan will look into incorporating it if it becomes viable technology.

On the other hand, will USA follow suit, or will we see another instance of 'who killed the electric car' ? I don't have a lot of faith in your major corporations personally...
He said he applies electricity to water to produce a gas that he can burn. Where does the initial electricity come from?

Gasoline works because the work of converting it into a form of stored energy has already taken place over millions of years; we just pull oil out of the ground and use it up. Not so with this guy's gas; we have to use energy to get something we can then burn for energy. If it takes a whole lot of energy to produce this gas, it's not necessarily going to help with our world-wide energy problems. The initial electricity this guy used to produce his gas via electrolysis most likely came from a nice big polluting electric plant. In that sense it's probably LESS "clean" than using raw electricity to do something, because some of that electricity is almost certainly wasted (as waste heat) to produce his gas.

Or it may be that this guy pulled off some kind of miracle, who knows. I'm no physicist. I'll believe it when I'm driving a water car around town.