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Originally Posted by willravel
It's very, very easy to extract hydrogen from water, so maybe the electrical engine could simply turn water into hydrogen and oxygen, making the car powered by the same chemical reaction the space shuttle uses to escape the Earth's gravity (2 H2 + O2). If that's the case, all you should need is tap water and maybe to plug the thing in at night. Not to get off subject, but that would be an easy and efficient process. Shit, the planet is covered in water, so no more war for energy rich resources.
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converting water to hydrogen would be a waste of power, the idea is to use a big efficient power plant (nuclear or something) to generate the power, then store it in hydrogen for the road, because hydrogen is more efficient then gas. but making a electric engine make hydrogen locally, it is a waste of power.