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Originally Posted by Angrist
That's exactly my point. You don't have H2 there, you already have H2O, the énd/wáste product of that reaction. What would the reaction be that gives energy from burning H2O? How do you even burn H2O?
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Yeah it's misleading, they aren't really burning water, just breaking it into H2 and burning that.
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IF what they're doing is seperating the 2 H2 from the O2 and then burning it... it's going in a circle, you'd turn it into 2 H2O again. Law of conservation of energy.
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Yep, that's what they're doing. They're performing the same-old, ho-hum electrolysis of H20 into 2 H2 and O2 that we've known how to do for decades. The exciting part is that no one has ever done it without sticking electrodes in there to do that.
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If they have another reaction, I can't imagine what it would be, not with my 5 years of chemistry classes.
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I know! And I think that's what's baffling the researchers. I'm excited to know what the reaction is.