October 15, 2005
No free lunch, part 2
Some genius has "deciphered" crop circles and "discovered" that they are a description of a way of generating electricity with a magnetron to "shake apart" water molecules and collect the energy generated when oxygen and hydrogen recombine into another water molecule.
He's right about one thing: burning hydrogen does indeed produce electricity. But he's missed something pretty important. Pretty obvious. Pretty telling. Namely, magnetrons consume ridiculous amounts of energy. The energy released by burning hydrogen is less than the energy needed to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen.
This is like the "gas free" fireplaces described awhile back. Utterly useless.
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