http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=84561
hmm, there's gotta be a catch, right? /:O
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http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=84561
hmm, there's gotta be a catch, right? /:O
Interesting. There's GOT to be a catch.
I started thinking it could cause a water shortage but then I thought that it would ultimately just get recycled through the atmosphere. Maybe I'm wrong.
I think big-business would fight the mass-production and distribution of these cars.
Yay! That'll solve the problem of the solar ice caps melting & threatening to flood the world!
Actually, there are instructions all over the net of how to run your car off of water AND gas. My dad built something to go on his car (I can't remember what it's called). The thing that you can build at home only really works for older cars, since you have to trick all the electric components on the newer cars to get it to work. I figured it was only a matter of time before someone thought of a way to run completely off water. So yes, it's definitely possible and has been done already. I don't know of a catch though, unless the hydrogen can hurt us somehow?
Wow. Why couldn't we (USA) design a water powered car??
then there would just be a huge water tax or something. if big buisness cant profit, we cant have it in usa.
Max speed is on 50 mph and you'd have to keep refilling it all the time, but it's still cool!
So cool! I love how inventive people are becoming in light of facing destruction of the planet by over use of fossil fuels. This kind of thing is just the tip of the iceberg I'm sure. No pun intended, lol.
There is always a catch. Physicists sometime also say "there ain't no free lunch". There is always a cost. Like in the case of the Hybrids, it is the cost of producing the batteries (environmental and materials).
Some form of energy is required to extract hydrogen from the water or to release the chemical bonds. Let's say it is chemical (vs say electrical, which everyone knows from HS, you can easily convert water to Hydrogen and Oxygen at a cost of electricity GREATER then what you will get back).
So if it is chemical, you have to add up the cost of what it takes to produce and dispose of those chemicals. There is your cost.
So far every promise of perpetual motion and free energy has been invariably failed to be anything but another hoax, maybe even a scam to try and get investor money. This is why it's important educate our kids, that they go to physics class, that they learn because the world is full of scam artists and even a few nuts who think they found a way around physics, yet never actually do.
intriguing. good find!
My friend who is an engineer said that this was a hoax.
However, I just recently read of a car developed in India that runs on compressed air, has a maximum speed of 60 mph, and goes 120 miles between recharging. You recharge it at the air compressor where you top off your tires.