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To: i-node who wrote (174606)	8/27/2003 1:00:44 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583867

David, The Holy Grail, I think, is to get the Hydrogen from water, burn it, and generate more water in the process. The problem is it takes a lot of energy to get the Hydrogen out of water. Except plants can do this efficiently. So they had this guy from MIT trying to figure out how to mimick the chemistry of plants. Hmm... You still need energy (solar?) to get this reaction. And this is peanuts. It is clean, but it is peanuts compared to the need. Actually, the holy grail is to get hydrogen (from anywhere), start a controlled nuclear reaction like that on the surface of the sun or exploding hydrogen bomb, which will turn it into helium, generate the amount of energy that is several orders of magnitute, or even 10s of orders of magnitude above the amount you get from hydrogen turning to water. Joe