“If it was bogus, why would anyone want it?” I was dumb enough to ask.
“It was bogus as fusion, but not as an energy source,” Zitts confided quietly, as if the others in the room didn’t need to hear this part. “What he had was generation of free hydrogen. From sea water.”
“I believe that’s called electrolysis,” I said, keeping my voice down. “You apply an electrical charge to a pair of electrodes immersed in water, and it rips the H two O molecule apart. The hydrogen goes one way, and oxygen the other.”
“Ah, Rollo, my boy!” Zitts exclaimed. “You are not entirely clueless in these matters! Then as you may also know, electrolysis is one more-or-less standard way to manufacture hydrogen. No big surprise, right? Hydrogen fuel-cell cars? No secrets there. But, you see, the traditional proces
