by Cryptonic26 » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:50 am
Well, Its a little silly actually, But I'm just looking for some closure.
A long time ago, I thought I figured out the answer to all Earth's problems by bubbling hydroxy through a freakishly tall column of water. The idea was that the bubbles would rise due to buoyancy, through a series of turbines. By the time the bubbles reached the top of this column, it would have turned the turbine enough to generate the voltage required to electrolyze more bubbles at the bottom. Thus over unity would have been produced.
It was one of my first ideas that got me into real science. Since then, I've learned a lot, enough to brush the idea aside. But it still nags at me that I never did the calculations. Know what I mean? Unfinished business haha.
Since the whole idea is to break the laws of thermodynamics, the data shouldn't be derived from these laws. So, to finish the broken concept, I need to either find actual experiment data on the energy requirements to electrolyze pressurized water, or do it myself. I may do that at some point, but I was hoping someone already beat me there.