> the cost of the hydrogen process was more than repaid. No. Just no. The extra drag on the alternator will take more energy than the hydrogen can replenish. Only a 6th grader who "invents" perpetual motion by hooking a generator to an electric motor without actually trying it would believe this. Actually, 40 years ago I knew a guy who claimed to run a lawnmower engine on hydrogen by hooking it up to an alternator, and I asked him "You still had to supply it with gasoline, right?" and he replied in the affirmative. But he argued that it was much more powerful because he blew up said lawnmower engine by overrevving it until it threw the rod. I asked him if he'd disconnected the governor, and he said yes, and when I told him he could have blown it up more easily by disconnecting the governor while running on straight gas, he *reeee*d and claimed he knew "science"