If water can produce hydrogen why don't we use water as fuel?

Question

If water can produce hydrogen why don't we use water as fuel?

Answer 1

There is still no efficient way to separate the two molecules. It still takes more energy to separate them than the energy you can harness from the two elements.

Answer 2

Honestly, YES it does work. I have done this to my 96 Saturn and currently get about 50 miles per gallon.

I wrote a blog review about it here:

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It's very simple. You don't change your engine or computer. A quart-size (95O cc) container is placed somewhere under the hood. You fill it with DISTILLED WATER and a little bit of BAKING SODA. The device gets vacuum and electricity (12 Volts) from the engine, and produces HHO gas (Hydrogen+Oxygen). The HHO gas is supplied to the engine's intake manifold or carburetor as shown below.

Hope this helps.

King

Answer 3

Scientists are working on it.

Answer 4

because the amount of energy required to convert water into liquid hydrogen is shall I say counter productive(?)

in a perfect world

water could be refigned into liquid hydrogen which would then be used as fuel creating water vapor as it's exhaust which would then be collected to be refigned into liquid hydrogen and the cycle could repeat in this way indefinitely

however, at this time: the amount of sheer energy that it requires to convert water into liquid hydrogen is so astonomical that the result cannot justify the means

So why not use solar energy to slit the water holecule and burn the hydrogen rite? as a species we are on the cusp of

innovating this level of technologyy into reality as we speak

the other factor is that liquid hydrogen is the coldest substance known to exist so storage of such a substance takes energy as well ever heard of the hindenberg?

can you imagine bumper to bumper hindenburgs?

I'll pay $10 a gallon before I subject myself to that

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Answer 5

Because the goverment wants us to buy gas from their oil companies.

Answer 6

Water by itself is not a fuel. Water is actually a byproduct of combustion, formed when hydrogen gas is burned in the presence of oxygen.

The water first has to be converted into a usable fuel. However, this involves using more energy to produce the fuel than the fuel will give back (it takes 3 units of fossil energy to produce 1 unit of hydrogen). This is one main reason why scientists are not considering hydrogen as a good alternative fuel.

Answer 7

Water by itself can't be burned. You have to separate the hydrogen and oxygen.This can be done by passing electricity through water.Look up Bob Lazar on the internet. You will have to find the right site but, he has a system for doing this in his yard and he says he has been driving on it for sometime. He is getting a company together to sell retrofit kits for current technology cars. He is also trying to make a system for sale so we can all do it.