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      05-17-2011, 09:45 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by EXMO View Post
You are the big idiot here (sorry but it's true)
The amount of energy that can be extracted from 1 liter of pure water is 0.111kg×300.000×300.000 = 10.000.000.000.000.000 joules (the equivalent of 1633986 barrels of oil which contain 42 US gallon each.) Have a nice day!
It is irrelevant how many joules of energy one can extract from water (even disregarding the fact that this quantity is virtually uninterpretable by the average person). The fact is, the conversion process is extremely inefficient in the current state-of-the-art, especially on-board an automobile. Maybe someday we will drive extremely efficient fuel cell cars, but in the near future, the alternative tech that is the most promising is electric, Exxon Mobile.
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