There are many different ways (expensive but also cheap) to extract hydrogen from water, and since we don't know the method he used, we can't assume that it's impossible.
It's possible he figured out something similar to that one linked below:
A Spanish scientist has developed a system that reportedly produces hydrogen on-site without expensive electrolysis.
I'm sure it's possible to make the process cheaper or more efficient than it currently is, but it really is impossible to get more energy out of burning the hydrogen than you put in to separate it from the oxygen in the water.
Hydrogen cars may turn out to be better than electric cars but they suffer from the same basic problem, they just store energy from another source, rather than produce it on site like a gasoline engine.
Hydrogen is actually a shitty fuel for cars due to its low energy density. We won't even go into the difficulties that arise in handling it. Batteries probably make more sense than hydrogen ... and batteries don't make any sense at all.
Cool invention in the link. It uses the most common elements on Earth. No rare earth bullshit.
I don't think it has a positive energy output, though. Probably not even better than electrolysis when all inputs are considered. Ferrosilicon is made in arc furnaces that use a fuckload of electricity and I suppose it is spent in the process.
Still, nice battery. Beats carrying a Hindenburg in your trunk
You still need to put more energy into any system that splits hydrogen and oxygen than you get back out of it. If it took less energy to split oxygen from water then it would convert all of our oceans into a giant bomb.
and since we don't know the method he used, we can't assume that it's impossible.
My guess is that he found a way to do it, but needed to perfect it, and his prototype was using hydrogen stored in canisters.
He got shoah'ed when the kikes running the oil cartel realized he was close to succeed.
I'm open to the possibility, just making the point that the math is against any of this being likely.
When you stick two hydrogens to an oxygen, energy is released. It takes the same amount of energy (and some extra due to inefficiency) to pull the hydrogens back away from it. It's another variation of a perpetual motion machine.
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