Hello all if anyone is good with logical thinking and great with math and science I need your help. I have an idea that deals with electrolysis, steam, turbines, and other crap that I need to get out of my head for some reason my brain thinks it possible. Please dm me so we make my brain STFU! Also, nothing illegal.
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Incorrect.
Electrolysis of water converts H20 into H2 gas and O2 gas. It does not make steam. Steam is simply an H20 molecule in the hot gas phase. The equation is 2 H2O + energy -> 2 H2 + O2.
HHO is just another way of writing H2O.
When you put the generated hydrogen gas (H2) and oxygen (O2) together in a reaction vessel and give it an ignition source, such as an electric spark or flame, you will get a big reaction that converts 2 H2 + O2 -> 2 H20 + all the energy you put in during the electrolysis phase. That will be steam and it will expand outward to fill the volume according to the ideal gas law PV = nRT. (n is the number of moles of gas, which is constant for a specific volume of water converted by electrolysis, and R is the ideal gas constant.) The dependent variables are pressure, volume and temperature. Given any 2 you can calculate the third.
In the end, if you collect all the steam and let it cool back down to room temperature, it will condense back into the original amount of liquid water, and all the energy you put during the electrolysis phase will be left as waste heat.
You can not beat the laws of thermodynamics. There is no such thing as perpetual motion.
Karpens Pile.
http://blog.hasslberger.com/2011/01/karpens_pile_producing_energy-print.html