Water (hydrogen) as a gasoline substitute? NOT

[MarkP]

On the most basic level, if you are generating hydrogen via hydrolysis, you will have to burn more gas to make up for the electricity draw and all else being equal the best you could hope to do is break even. This has already been pointed out. Also as already stated, it is not impossible that there could be some unique way in which the hydrogen catalyzes the combustion of the gas, resulting in increased performance beyond the BTUs present in the hydrogen itself. However, human nature being what it is, there is an overwhelmingly more likely explanation. I suppose that a willingness to believe in that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow has its positive side and I am sure that there are many examples of great advancements that have come about coincidentally with someone having "faith" in an idea, but the vast majority of good things that one sees as one looks around you today, have come about through the systematic exclusion of such emotional bias from logical analysis of problems.

There ain't no free lunch. The system described is like a perpetual motion machine. There is no logical explanation for where the extra energy is coming from, only the dropping of technowhiz buzzwords such as hydrogen. So much of what I have read so far is consistant with a salesman pushing a product and so little is consistant with a scientist explaining how something works. The story of this gizmo is completely consistant with human nature and completely inconsistant with real science. Even if the thing really works I want to go on record as saying it is crap. The scientific method of investigation has infinitely more value than getting lucky once in spite of common sense.