Hi Steven, yes it is more efficient. The power input is very low in relation to the energy produced from using the gas for generation. This has partly been covered up by concentrating the patent on a hydrocarbon reforming, but it has slipped in that water can be used along with a carbon cursor "CO2". This is basically a synthetic fuel reactor in it's simplest form, many years of work from my part has been done on this, using low energy input reactions to create synthetic fuel. What has to be understood is the covalent bond breaking and recombining, on recombining "to form water" the energy produced is considerable. The "trick" is for want of a word, is making the covalent bonds such as for example N-N in N2, break with little energy and to do this you have to make it unstable and move in other elements, such as hydrogen in between. Once you have this state, by igniting the H the N is left to bond again and in so doing releases huge amounts of energy. So what do we have! a small amount of H but a huge energy gain from the N's recombining "this is how explosives work", the stronger the bond forming, the bigger the bang for your buck, so to say  People only look at the H content and not the reactive consequences, this is where the cover up has come about that people only look at the H content. C + 2O=CO2 is an explosive event, also 2H + O=H2O is also. An example of a simple breaking of a bond is a piece of string, try just pulling it directly apart!!! but if you tie a knot in a special way in the middle, you can break it apart very easily, this is what has to be done in chemical reactions. By experience these bonds have to be vibrated and can be vibrated with less energy used that the energy created when they rejoin, but you have to slip in between another element until you want that energy, you break it first and then remake it. Mike 
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