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]

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.