How'd the Illuminati Miss This Guy?

[jeriendhal]

Man invents water-powered car. No, really.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FBH4_FWBVA

This is setting off my bullshit-o-meter, because I find it hard to believe you can crack water molecules into an energetic gas without there being a greater energy cost somewhere along the way. OTOH if it actually works as advertized... Well, you can kiss the oil companies, coal companies, nuclear power industry, and who know who else buh-bye...

Comments

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Looks like Sen. Domenici (shown helping arrange a government grant) sees these guys as a way to bring pork home to the state.

As for the physics of it, total BS. You can heat water enough to get a plasma of hydrogen ions and hydroxyl radicals (HHO) but it's going to cool down damn fast and the energy goes into heat, not work. As a cutting torch I buy it. But the water is a working fluid, like in hydraulics, not a power source.

There's no way you can power a car usefully with this. You could do straight hydrogen but you're still burning something to break down the water.

I'm sure there's some oil, coal, and nuclear execs watching this and laughing themselves sick at how money that could fund competition is being thrown down this rathole.

[wolfstormdancer.livejournal.com]

So your saying that you have a better Idea? It is feasable to use this as an additive like their website says to extend the MPG but not replace gasoline completely. It is a shame that some people can't use thier imagination. I personaly would like to think this is a step in the right direction but them I'm a electronics engineer not a chemical one.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Electronics engineers at my school got taught principles such as "conservation of energy." Farmers produce food from shit, but there's a lot of other materials and energy inputs going into the process. Saying you can get energy from water is just as true as saying you can get food from shit . . . it just ignores all the really difficult and expensive parts of the job.

As for using my imagination, it doesn't take much to imagine someone with connections to a Senator scamming the government out of a few million bucks by deluding the ignorant.