Can you burn water and make energy using a electrolyzer then burning the oxygen and hydrogen?
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Craig E asked:
Can you pull the hydrogen and oxygen out of water with a electrolyzer and then burn hydrogen and oxygen in a generator to make electric that would then run the electrolyzer? In doing this could you generate more electric than you need to run the electrolyzer? Making power from water alone. Please before you say that you can’t make more energy than you put in. Please think about what you are doing. The energy you are putting in is only to brake the hydrogen and oxygen out of the water. If hydrogen can be ran in a generator that would use propane and run at the same cu ft/hr as propane you can generate more power than it takes to run the electrolyzer. The oxygen is not even being used at this point and if you could use a generator that could use both the hydrogen and oxygen you could make even more power.
A little bit of info to help 9000w of electricity can produce 70 cu ft/hr of hydrogen. 64 cu ft/hr hydrogen can produce 12500w of power in a normal 4 cyl generator.
Can you pull the hydrogen and oxygen out of water with a electrolyzer and then burn hydrogen and oxygen in a generator to make electric that would then run the electrolyzer? In doing this could you generate more electric than you need to run the electrolyzer? Making power from water alone. Please before you say that you can’t make more energy than you put in. Please think about what you are doing. The energy you are putting in is only to brake the hydrogen and oxygen out of the water. If hydrogen can be ran in a generator that would use propane and run at the same cu ft/hr as propane you can generate more power than it takes to run the electrolyzer. The oxygen is not even being used at this point and if you could use a generator that could use both the hydrogen and oxygen you could make even more power.
A little bit of info to help 9000w of electricity can produce 70 cu ft/hr of hydrogen. 64 cu ft/hr hydrogen can produce 12500w of power in a normal 4 cyl generator.