This information was gathered from different sources, and I thought it to be interesting. No one has to read it nor believe it but someone some day will crack this hydrogen power and that is what this world will run on. The space shuttle runs on it now. We have an abundance of water and to turn it into fuel will not decrease it as it is converted back into water when burnt.
Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous scientist of this century. One of his most well-known accomplishments is the formula E=mc2
* E = energy,
* m = mass,
* c = the speed of light in a vacuum (celeritas),
Despite its familiarity, many people don’t really understand what it means. We hope this explanation will help!
One of Einstein’s great insights was to realize that matter and energy are really different forms of the same thing. Matter can be turned into energy, and energy into matter.
For example, consider a simple hydrogen atom, basically composed of a single proton. This subatomic particle has a mass of
0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001 672 kg
This is a tiny mass indeed. But in everyday quantities of matter there are a lot of atoms! For instance, in one kilogram of pure water, the mass of hydrogen atoms amounts to just slightly more than 111 grams, or 0.111 kg.
Einstein’s formula tells us the amount of energy this mass would be equivalent to, if it were all suddenly turned into energy. It says that to find the energy, you multiply the mass by the square of the speed of light, this number being 300,000,000 meters per second (a very large number):
= 0.111 x 300,000,000 x 300,000,000
= 10,000,000,000,000,000 Joules
This is an incredible amount of energy! A Joule is not a large unit of energy … one Joule is about the energy released when you drop a textbook to the floor. But the amount of energy in 30 grams of hydrogen atoms is equivalent to burning hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline!
If you consider all the energy in the full kilogram of water, which also contains oxygen atoms, the total energy equivalent is close to 10 million gallons of gasoline!
Can all this energy really be released? Has it ever been?
The only way for ALL this energy to be released is for the kilogram of water to be totally annhilated. This process involves the complete destruction of matter, and occurs only when that matter meets an equal amount of antimatter … a substance composed of mass with a negative charge. Antimatter does exist; it is observable as single subatomic particles in radioactive decay, and has been created in the laboratory. But it is rather short-lived (!), since it annihilates itself and an equal quantity of ordinary matter as soon as it encounters anything. For this reason, it has not yet been made in measurable quantities, so our kilogram of water can’t be turned into energy by mixing it with ‘antiwater’. At least, not yet.
So why all of this long explanation on water for energy. Well as long as we keep trying with our homemade fuel electrolysers or hydrogen boosters, we make progress. If we can make them better as we learn, then one day, we will be able to replace the fossil fuels. Think about it, 1 kilogram of water is equal or close to, 10 million gallons of gasoline!
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This post was written by Michael on November 25, 2008
