Sure, but then you are having to sacrificially oxidize something, such as aluminum, and the energy required to produce/de-oxidize/regenerate that material must be figured into the efficiency numbers.
Also, Jimboot is doing fairly simple electrolysis, unless one of his electrodes is aluminum...
PW
Yes, that is right to a certain point. It could be even iron, scrap iron, for example, anything that will oxidate and with a counter electrode that produces hydrogen. As you know nothing comes for free, but this is about paying the minimum, and if you can use 33% less electricity and produce clean hydrogen from scrap metal, so be it. I produced a video of this and I was using nickel oxide hydride at the time. But even stainless steel will work but needs a stronger electrolyte. Anyway, Stan Meyer's car runs on very little hydrogen as an input of gas, you might say it runs on electron extraction, his favorite words  and no I'm not mad as the main consensus of people on this form think  I have changed my outlook on this or any forum as people just can't be trusted. PW that was not pointed at you, well I hope not. My last post on this thread, I just had to make my point on running an engine on water. Regards Mike
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