On Saturday, 22 April 2017 12:23:33 UTC+1, Nightjar wrote:
On 22-Apr-17 10:21 AM, Tim+ wrote:
Nightjar wrote:

The principle has been demonstrated. A few years ago the Japanese
demonstrated a fuel cell car that ran entirely on water.


Eh? Now who's talking drivel?

A fuel cell that magically splits water or in some other way converts
*only* water into electrical energy? This greatest, most fabulous
discovery was made a few years ago and nobody has heard of it?

This one perhaps?
https://www.greenoptimistic.com/gene.../#.WPshDlTTWf0

"Fabulous" seems like an apt description, stuff of fables.

That looks like it. I only recall the publicity of its launch and didn't
follow up on what happened to it. However, MIT and Stanford University
have both demonstrated low energy water splitters that can run from low
voltage sources.

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Colin Bignell
You don't get anything for nothing.
In theory it take the same amount of energy to split hydrogen and oxygen as you get burning the hydrogen.
In practice, splitting the hydrogen is very inefficient.
So the whole concept is/was doomed.