Hydrogen Generator: Run on Water, Variable Output

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The discussion centers on a hydrogen generator that operates solely on water as fuel, featuring a battery that starts and stops like a car and has a variable output. Participants clarify that while hydrogen can be generated from water, the process requires electricity, making water a byproduct rather than a fuel source. The consensus indicates skepticism about the generator's efficiency, particularly regarding energy input versus output in hydrogen production and combustion.

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There is an invention of a hydrogen generator. It runs on water only as fuel. Battery starts and stops like a car. Has a variable output. Does anyone on this level feel it has any value?
 
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Does it use more energy to create the hydrogen from water than it gets back from burning the hydrogen back into water?
 
Melvin Schulz said:
There is an invention of a hydrogen generator. It runs on water only as fuel. Battery starts and stops like a car. Has a variable output. Does anyone on this level feel it has any value?
It sounds like you have a pretty basic misunderstanding of what someone else is claiming or they are claiming something that is not possible. Water is not a fuel, it is a waste product of combustion. You most certainly can generate hydrogen from water - it's just that that process doesn't "run on" water, it runs on electricity.
 

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