Potentially huge news...scientist burns water.

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Originally Posted by manasecret

2 H2(g) + O2(g) → 2 H2O(l) + 572 kJ/mol

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?

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.

If they have another reaction, I can't imagine what it would be, not with my 5 years of chemistry classes.