On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:21:01PM +0100, Nigel Duckworth wrote:

> > it somehow has more energy than you need to crack it?
> 
> How much energy did it take to build the Tacoma Narrows Bridge... and 
> how much to destroy it?

Building the bridge and its destruction didn't involve chemical reactions, so
your analogy is very poor.

> I believe the secret to hydrogen on demand is teasing the 
> hydrogen-oxygen bonds apart using resonance.

"Resonance" is just a woo-woo word. You can't get something for
nothing. Even with electrical resonance you don't get more power from a
circuit than you put into it.

Matthew

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