Hi Matthew,

My Tacoma Narrows analogy was to do with efficient use of energy, the 
bridge was destroyed by 40 MPH winds!

Same reply for resonance and a word-search on Wikipedias 'resonance' 
page doesn't reveal  "woo-woo"? :)

... it does refer to the bridge failure though;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance

Regards,

Nigel




Matthew Miller wrote:
>  
> 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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