Does that "use water for fuel" thing actually work?!

Question

a guy i went to high-school with told my mom he's been running his car on water for the past few months. i googled it, and there are a few sites based around the topic. i would just like to know if it actually works as well as the sites and my friend say it does.

try, runyourcaronwater.com

Answer 1

my advice, seach the post for similar questions first.  

If you are spamming and trying to sell your link, you are being monitored by the FTC investigating fraud.

Answer 2

I know it seems impossible...the idea of converting an automobile to run on water rather than gasoline. But actually, if you think about it, it is not that far fetched.

Water is composed of two parts of hydrogen and one part oxygen. Hence, the chemical formula...H2O.

So if we could extract the Hydrogen and Oxygen from the water we could burn the Hydrogen as a fuel (it's highly efficient) and use the Oxygen as an oxidizer that assists in the burning of the hydrogen.

Answer 3

I am 77 and heard this story all my life. I have not actually saw one work yet.

Answer 4

It doesn't.

The people who claim it do are either liars or deluded.

For the most part any fuel economy improvements they got came from their changing their driving style which you can do for free.

Answer 5

most of those sites are fake, but hydrogen can be produced from water.

Answer 6

i personally believe that it is pure BS.

water is not fuel. water is the byproduct from burning fuel. in other words, water is the ash. nothin left.

Answer 7

It's a physical impossibility !   It's another looney "perpetual motion machine" idea.

You CAN splt water into hydrogen and oxygen (but it takes a lot of energy).  When you burn the hydrogen and oxygen you get water+energy back.  If the system was perfectly efficient that the energy IN would exactly equal energy OUT.  In fact it's not perfectly efficient so you lose energy as heat and light along the way.

No one with a high school physics course should even have to ask.

Water isn't a fuel (unless you are creating fusion of the atoms).

Answer 8

my friend, this is just a similar to hydrogen technology, u just extract the hydrogen and use it, and water contains hydrogen. But to extract hydrogen from water u still need an other source of electricity to  electrolyze it. Thus, water is not useful at all, it will be too much expensive and need additional source.

Answer 9

Again sigh

It's a con, yes I can prove it, post and edit and I'll post it again.

Answer 10

Without any conversion to hydrogen, inserting a small volume of water into the intake manifold of a gasoline engine will often, but not always, have the effect of allowing the engine to operate with lower fuel/air ratios, without ping. This does not always reduce fuel consumption. It reduces fuel consumption when the leaner mixture will still provide adequate power. Now of a car moving on a highway   that is a lot of the time. The leaner mixture may burn your exhaust valves faster, so this has its drawbacks.

In a way, this is part of what keeps a diesel fairly efficient, they can operate with very lean mixtures when they are not working hard. But note that when a diesel is put under heavy load, it may not run very cleanly without a turbo.

Water can, by effectively increasing the octane rating, improve the fuel economy of the engine.

You can get the increased economy at lean mixture  by feeding in natural gas instead of water. But like water, getting a precise amount in the mix is subject to some experimentation.

We had this water in the fuel approach in engines way back in 1922, and it stayed in use through 1950 in some farm tractors.

as I said, it caused valve burning, so repeated valve jobs were part of the  extra maintenance.

So, do you need to convert it to HHO? IDK