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process is named after him and will be used to return manned flights from Mars.

I doubt any TV channel would run it until then as solar energy is used to power the conversion of CO2 to methane and water.

The reason its definitely not on the agenda for public discourse is that the device could be domesticated which would destroy all of the electric power and oil and gas companies.

I would submit that there will be no manned trip to Mars precisely for that reason.

Obviously money is not a problem as it is public knowledge more than ever before that the flagrantly In-Your-Face, the Fed Reserve, unindicted counterfeiters of $Trillions ad lib, could, but i don't believe would, set aside a mere Billion for the project.

And there would be hundreds of millions left over, for the above reason of denying people energy autonomy.

How much energy does it take to create the radio waves compared to how much energy is returned to us by burning the hydrogen released?

E R O E I ...what does it mean?

No, it is not something that those dwarfs with the funny caps sing.

It means: Energy Returned On Energy Invested

OK, what does THAT mean?

Here is an easy explanation. First, let's break this concept down into smaller chunks:

ENERGY INVESTED is this -

In order to ACQUIRE energy, it TAKES ENERGY.
In order to TRANSPORT a form of energy, TAKES ENERGY.
In order to STORE energy, TAKES ENERGY.
In order to USE energy, also TAKES ENERGY.

ENERGY RETURNED is this -

After you have taken into account all the energy used above...how MUCH ENERGY do you have left? OR How much energy does it actually COST in order to USE a particular form of energy?

http://www.eroei.com/articles/the-chain/what-is-eroei/

EROEI on oil derived from traditional, land based supergiant oil fields was estimated to be around 100:1. In other, words for every unit of energy invested in exploration and development we got 100 units of energy back. We could take one unit of that hundred to go develop 100 more units of oil energy and still have 99 units left to use as we wanted. Now that we have exploited most of the easy to get oil, todays EROEI on oil is estimated to have drooped to somewhere round 10:1 or 12:1. That means an increasing percentage of oil pumped must be used to explore and develop the oil fields and bring us new oil, leaving proportionately less as surplus to be used for fueling our economies' machinery. As we have to go further offshore, into more inhospitable regions, and use more energy intensive secondary recovery techniques to get more oil the EROEI, will continue to drop.

As it gets close to the point where it takes one barrel of oil to pump one barrel of oil out of the ground, there is an increasingly minuscule volume of oil left which we can use to run our present oil based economies.

That's why I would be interested in knowing how much energy it takes to create the radio waves that release the hydrogen to be burned, compared to the energy returned by the burning hydrogen. Obviously if it takes the same or more energy to release the hydrogen as we get from burning the hydrogen, there isn't much point to the exercise. Hopefully, there will be a useful surplus of energy left over from this process when all is said and done.