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First of all, I just want to say that I stumbled upon this site and am quite pleased with what I have found, so I joined. I just wanted to say hi, I'm a college student who is hoping to become a mechE. Anyway, I have seen a few topics which discuss the possibility of using electrolysis to split water into H2 and 0, then burning it either in a regular engine which has been properly treated or some other sort of burning device (such as a pulse-jet engine). I realize that as I read in another post somewhere, water is not a fuel source, but an ash in the sense that it is the waste of burning H2. And after some of my own expirements and calculations (I don't like to take somones word for it if I can do the work myself haha) Realized that yes, you can not produce enough energy to sustain the breaking up of the water molocules because this would be like creating a perpetual motion engine. My question is how much extra electricity would it take to keep the process sustained, and could it be provided by way of converting unused energy (heat, or maybe even photo cells). and then the whole point of this is of course to have this process produce more mech energy per volt then just a straight electric vehicle otherwise, just build that haha. Maybe you could even just replace the battery ever X miles or charge it in the wall even... well thanks for listening, I am not an idiot so please feel free to correct me and let me know what you think, I will listen, thanks. --David