Has anyone built a hydrofueler or found another way to run a car on just tapwater?

Question

I'm building a hydrofueler, I'm replacing the Teflon coated magnet wire with enamel coated to save money and wondering if that's okay. Also wondering if there is any other system that gives you 300+continuous hp off just tapwater without additives and without gasoline? (hho ion polarized sytems that imitate presence of carbon atoms using this ionization.)

Answer 1

This is a little over my head, but it doesn't take a chemist to know that there is no energy obtainable from water unless you are planning on fusing the hydrogen atoms.

Answer 2

Go ahead. It sounds interesting. Please keep me posted.

Answer 3

The answer to your question is "no", nor has anyone else found a way to make a car run on just tap water.

Oh, there's energy in water.  There is hydrogen.  The problem is that it takes energy to break down the water to get the hydrogen, that burns in oxygen to make the water.  It takes more energy to break apart the H2O to get the H2 than we get back from the H2 as a fuel.

But that's OK, if we have a source of cheap energy (i.e. electricity)  to break up the water.  We can use nuclear, wind, photovoltaic, or Stirling engines.  But there has to be an energy source to break apart the water molecules.  Then we can use the hydrogen, since it can be carried around, as a fuel for cars.

People sometimes dismiss hydrogen as fuel because it takes energy to produce it.  What these folks seem to miss is the tremendous amount of energy required to make gasoline from petroleum.

Also consider the energy sink that is ethanol production.  Only now, after spending billions of $$$, have folks figured out that corn to ethanol is a very bad idea.  Growing corn and processing it into ethanol requires a lot of energy.  Energy that comes from petroleum.

Anyway, there are some folks out there who persist in thinking that they can electrolyze water to make hydrogen to help run their car (HHO systems).  It sounds like a great idea until that pesky second law of thermodynamics catches up with them.

It requires energy to electrolyze the water.  Where will this energy come from?  They say the alternator.  Where does the energy come from to turn the alternator?  The fuel in the car.  Either gasoline or H2.

So they're going to use H2 to turn the alternator to produce the electricity to decompose the water to make the hydrogen to turn the alternator.  Anybody see a problem with this scenario?

Can you say "perpetual motion machine"?

Answer 4

You still need some gas to get this to work. But don't do it because it is highly explosive. It's not worth all the c**p you would need to go through.