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Headlines That Got You Thinking

Post by cronus » Fri Dec 30, 2016 7:03 am

Tony Marmont, who made petrol from thin air has revolutionary new invention

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/sci ... invention/

Thin air, he made petrol out of thin air....how revolutionary do you want to be?
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Post by mistermack » Fri Dec 30, 2016 10:44 am

He's a dick.

Using electricity to produce produce hydrogen from air is too expensive? Everyone said that as soon as it was mentioned. There's not scientific breakthrough. Everyone knew it could be done, and would be too expensive.

So now, his idea is, to use electricity, to create sound, to produce hydrogen.
All he's doing, is putting sound in the middle. It's still going to be too expensive.
Basically, you need energy to break the bond between hydrogen and oxygen.
Electricity is the most expensive form of widely used energy. So it's always going to be uneconomic.

If he could invent a way of using sunlight to split water directly into hydrogen and oxygen, he'd be onto a winner. But I won't hold my breath.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Dec 30, 2016 11:00 am

It's the same guy who says that sleeping inside a copper pyramid keeps him from aging.
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Re: Headlines That Got You Thinking

Post by JimC » Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:05 am

Brian Peacock wrote:It's the same guy who says that sleeping inside a copper pyramid keeps him from aging.
What a moron! :nono:

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