by FuelFox on Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:06 am
Magnificent idea, ernstein... If I understand your post, you think of a system, closed loop, so the water doesn't even get lost. Then a fast enough H2 generator to split the water every time again and again, so fast that no other fuel is needed? Right?
To do this you think of using a micro-nuclear device and preferably "heavy water". I can understand that you want to keep that in the system, because this seems to be very expensive stuff...
But suppose I buy (build or steal) me a micro-nuclear device, one that yields enough energy to split the (heavy) water fast enough to replace the gasoline for my car, then, as far as I am familiar with this, I think you loose a lot of energy. The conversion of water to gas is far from efficient en then the fuel goes into a combustion engine that has a fuel efficiency of (at the very,very best) 30%.
"It's not Logical, Captain", would a famous scientist with funny ears give as his comment...
Why not connect the micro-nuclear device direct to a set of well-designed electrical motors?
Maybe you can shed some light on this? And also on how far the development of the nuclear device is at present?
Fox