One of my crazy hair-brained ideas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7UkRafgxvc&feature=email
Now... correct me if I am wrong here... but isn't the 1st law of thermodynamics a big problem here?
Whatever energy you get out of a system, you must first add to that system. So obviously, the amount of energy you get by burning oxyhydrogen you must first ADD to the system via that of a battery when you convert the water to gas. When you light the gases on fire, you are just speeding them along to combine back into a more stable state. The gases release energy, and recombine to form water... the same energy you put into the system BEFORE by using the battery.
So... this might work for water heaters and such, since it allows you to convert electricity to thermal energy.... but this is just a much fancier way (although maybe more efficient) than just using heating coils and running a current through it.
Has anyone done the research on this? Is hooking this system up to run off of electricity more efficient than plugging in some heating coils? I know heating coils have always been known to be very inefficient. You are guaranteed some damn clean water at least. This might be a good way to treat water AFTER you have filtered it (but engineers still would want to use chlorine to treat water anyway because it acts as a residual.... it keeps the water clean even AFTER you treat it. This oxyhrdogen system may give you clean water, but you have nothing to KEEP it clean). I doubt the process works really well when you are running a digital signal through sludge.