Just two nights ago, when I was reading the gospel here, there was a post about Toyota having developed a water-based engine that would endanger the EV market.
A few hours later, it was scrubbed from the internet. Not even the Internet Archive site had a copy.
I thought all this tech was going to come out soon under Trump. This couldn't have been deemed too disruptive to society.
It takes just as much energy to split water molecules as they release when recombined (or burned). So unless this engine uses some kind of exploit of physics to break the molecules with zero point energy or something it isn't going anywhere fast
Careful now Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons will take you somewhere else they don't want you to look.
They will. https://remoteview.substack.com/
Stan Meyers claimed he was using a resonant cavity/chamber to break the bonds at far lower energies. But you're right, it would violate the 2nd law.
"The tendency for entropy to increase in isolated systems is expressed in the second law of thermodynamics-- perhaps the most pessimistic and amoral formulation in all human thought." - PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
Questions of energy balance involve the First Law, not the Second Law.