One of my crazy hair-brained ideas

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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

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This is a pretty classic re-packaging of an old pseudoscientific device. It doesn't solve any of the problems the spokesman at the beginning of the video was talking about.

Indeed, due to the laws of thermodynamics, the batteries you have to plug the thing into in the first place must necessarily contain more energy than you are going to be able to recover from burning the free hydrogen you've produced from the water. There is a net energy loss in this system, so no, it doesn't generate energy.

It's also a fairly Rube Goldberg method for purifying or treating water, and although I'm not a water purification expert, it does appear that this system would probably use more energy to produce less clean water than other existing technologies.

This company probably started out claiming their device was producing energy from just pure water (Wow!) until scientists repeatedly pointed out to them that they've got two giant batteries hooked up to it, and that's where the energy is coming from, and by the laws of thermodynamics all changes in energy state will result in loss of energy from a system, heat resistance in the conductors, sound from the burning flame, etc, all you are doing is getting a net loss from the energy that was in the battery to begin with, so this is not a solution to creating clean energy, and is probably a very inefficient way to produce clean water.