[Vwdiesel] Burning water?

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/15/2007 3:15:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time, rbp at 4u2bu.org 
writes:

> but just another example of one of those little keys to nature's  
> inner workings, where you can put in a finite amount of energy, in  
> the presence of some matter that we happen to have access to here on  
> earth, and realize far more energy FROM the reaction than you than  
> you put INTO it (so long as you don't use up all the matter, right  
> George?)
> 

  Key word is how much energy YOU put into it.  The potential
has been raised by previous processes.  Happens quite a bit but 
energy in still = energy out unless you're on the subatomic scale 
and even then if you do your E=MC2 then it still calculates out.  
"Someone else" raised the potential for you.
  Burn your peanut oil but the plant put a lot of energy into it, 
do your fusion but you're turning mater into energy and burn your 
carbon but generally a plant converted a LOT of photons and 
CO2 into that carbon first.
  Roll a rock down a hill.  Lots of energy, sure it doesn't take 
necessarily a lot of energy to release it but think what it took 
to place that rock where the potential energy was greater than 
the energy it took to move it.  Then gravity does the work.  
  It's just all in how easily we can harnes the work "someone 
else" has already done for us.  :-)
     Loren


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