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[vanamoinen1]

Back to Moontanman's orig q, this does smack of perpetual machine quackery--hollywood did us no favours with "Chain Reaction". We did the water cleaving experiment way back in middle school (the 70s) and as I recall, we were using an electrical source. Can't see as to how you'd get more energy back from combusting the resulting gases than you spent in cleaving it in the first place--after all, the O-H bond energy doesn't pick a number out of a hat each time it's formed or broken....and as I recall, the combustion reaction gives off plenty of heat waste. um. sounds like a dog that won't hunt.