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This guy has hooked a generator to the axle of a towed trailer and uses the generated power to chrage batteries in the trailer. Because - my bolding:
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The traditional portable electric generators consume gasoline to produce the mechanical drive necessary to rotate the electrically conductive elements. By contrast, using a rotating axle coupled with a gear system or other means would provide the necessary mechanical drive to produce electrical energy as opposed to wasting other energy sources and utilizing a portion of the power of a vehicle that would otherwise be unused.
In this guys world, towing a trailer full of batteries and then increasing the rolling resistance by having the axle power a generator doesn't consume fuel, it just uses some power that otherwise, magically, "would be unused".
Fuel is actually hydrogen, not hydrates producing it.
Plenty of patents around how to electrolize water into O2 and H without hydrates.
Hydrogen actually can’t be a fuel. You can’t break down an element any further. Patents don’t seem to account for that.
Hence why TPTB were brilliant enough to leave us relatively attainable and cheap chains of hydrocarbons that make bigger booms when they are subjected to a decomposition reaction.
As already noted, since H2O has already been “burned” to create that compound in the first place, you aren’t getting much out of “burning” it again besides steam.
Hydrogen actually can’t be a fuel. You can’t break down an element any further. Patents don’t seem to account for that.
Hence why TPTB were brilliant enough to leave us relatively attainable and cheap chains of hydrocarbons that make bigger booms when they are subjected to a decomposition reaction.
As already noted, since H2O has already been “burned” to create that compound in the first place, you aren’t getting much out of “burning” it again besides steam.
Steam could be HUGE imo, if alot more resources were put into developing a more modern steam engine, without all the inconveniences of the past engines.
However I still believe the best and most efficient type of power for a vehicle, would be some type of gravity control, or anti-grav (like the old Indian Vihmanas) (not sure on spelling of that).
Water is not a good fuel- it's a thermodynamically stable compound of hydrogen and oxygen. Now hydrogen is a good fuel, and that releases a lot of energy when it's oxidized to make water. The trouble is that there aren't vast reserves of molecular hydrogen around. While it can readily be made from the electrolytic reduction of water, this takes energy, more energy than you'll get by later oxidizing it back to water. There is no chemical reaction (or sequence of reactions), that can produce net energy yield in both directions.
Harnessing wind and/or solar energy that's freely available, to make hydrogen from water, by means of more energetically efficient processes, e.g. using advanced catalysts, is an area of current research. That may prove valuable, for example to produce hydrogen fuel for fuel cell vehicles. What you're essentially doing there is capturing the transient /dynamic energy of the wind or sun, into a form that can be more flexibly transported and used in another time or place.
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