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First, let me qualify that yes, this would be evil and illegal, but I think it'll happen so let's address it now.
For use once we get to the "hydrogen economy" where we use H2 as an ubiquitous energy source, where you fill your car with H2 instead of gasoline.
Sell, on the blackmarket, devices
in a black box that can sit under a desk at work, plug into the electrical grid, and quietly use the electrical energy to electrolyze water to fill a little H2 cannister. The H2 cannister can be discretely carried back to your car and used as fuel, or sold.
Horribly inefficient in the total energy production cycle, but the theif is only paying for the capital on the black box, so there's plenty of motivation for the black box to be bought & used.
Black Market - Weather Report
http://www.amazon.c...202-6522620-8454259
Joe Zawinul, the greatest ears since Mozart apparently. Looks exactly like my dad. [spiritualized, Dec 20 2004]
Here's Joe, but I don't see anything extraordinary -
http://content.answ...0px-Joe-zawinul.jpg
- about his ears. Beauty is in the eye of, I guess. [normzone, Mar 29 2006]
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Didn't there used to be a business:scam grouping? This might fit in there. |
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Anyway, no objections worth mentioning. After all, I plug in my lava lamp at work. |
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Will the black box save a recording of your last words before the office explodes? + |
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Hazards like possible explosions haven't put a damper on other black market activities. Consider it an add to the allure. |
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Also, there are other H2 storage concepts out there such as using borax and other "H2 battery" concepts that are safer than pressurized H2. Of course they all take energy to charge the battery, so this theft method would still work. |
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Who needs to wait for the hydrogen economy? You could do this with a battery charger now? Or a brass and crystal windup box which you then hook to your bike pedals. |
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Why not now? You're correct. But the magnitude of how much energy you can store with an H2-battery/cannister is so much greater per volume/mass than what you can get with Ni-Cads that it won't be useful enough to the theif until we go H2. |
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// ... once we get to the "hydrogen economy"... |
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Old Russian joke: "Once we get to the "true communism" dad is walking with his son, and kicks a coin on the street. Son: 'Dad what was that you kicked'. Dad: 'That was money. Many years ago it was used to buy meat and other things'. Son: 'Dad, what's meat?' |
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I've been thinking about building this truck see... it's got two big hoses, a turbine, a hydrogen electroliser and a big tank. You dump one hose in a hydro dam and take the other hose down the hill... you sit there all night syphoning the dam dry and sneak out next morning with a big tank of hydrogen. haha... evil. |
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I'm bunning this, but if you just hook your box to the telephone lines you get a constant unmetered current. Only need 1.6volts to seperate o and h. Good times for that black box, and it keeps you from getting any pesky phone calls at work. |
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