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Old 04-10-2019, 11:41 PM   #116
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Meaning it's not just lying around to harvest. As you say you have to make it, which takes more energy than you get by burning it.
Yes, generating hydrogen by electrolysis is a net energy loss. Hydrogen makes sense in certain applications where gains in efficiency from using it in a combustion device helps offset some of the loss from generating the hydrogen.

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