Originally Posted by
Hobartlemagne
Come on- Think outside the box. People are doing this now. They convert the water to H & 02 in their
car. They just fill up on water. "Infrastructure" with auto fuel is a favored buzzword for people in the infrastructure business.
Who is doing this now? Electrolysis in the vehicle takes far too much energy at this point, the technology, while useful for hydrogen production for industrial purposes, is too immature for vehicle power. Basically, at this point with electrolysis, it takes (more than) 1.4 units of energy to create 1 unit of energy in hydrogen.
Burning a gallon of gasoline, releases about 20 pounds of co2, whereas producing 1 kg of hydrogen (1 kg of hydrogen = approximately the same amount of energy as 1 gallon of gasoline) through electrolysis would release about 70 pounds of co2.