BlkPaladin said:
Not possible, nothing is free plus with any mechanical setup you loose energy through heat etc. The law of enthropy kind of sucks at time. You have to spend more energy to get more energy. Though there are ways to harvest some of the lost energy. My family is thinking of setting up a making a wind turbine by caniblizing a gas generator we have and hooking it to a wind mill set up. (A place near my work used an old bailer rake on the top of their barn to catch the wind.
Actually "burning" is just oxydation in any form you don't even need carbon. For example when you "burn" Hydrogen you get heat and water since the Hydrogen attaches to two Oxygen molcules. The problem is harvesting Hydrogen, currently the only way is to use electrolsis to force the Hydrogen away from the Oxygen. With the Tesla coil what is happening is first the water "electrolizes" and the heat from the arcing electricity ignites the excaping Hydrogen/Oxygen returning it to water. Basically its pointless. (Oh it takes more energy to spilt the water than what is generated when the Hydrogen is burned) |
generally correct, but your chemistry teacher really would like to have a word with you on that one ..
btw the industry already produces quite some amounts of Hydrogen.. from fossil fuels.. because you can oxidate the carbon in hydrocarbons and harvest the hydrogen (ofcourse this produces carbondioxide, so if you use this hydrogen for fuel you might aswell have just used the hydrocarbons)







