Is calling water a fuel politically correct?

Question

Ok enough of how the water car HHO bullshit... I succomb... a car will never run on water alone... unless...

My revised theory... Install an HHO supplement system, capable of creating a 30% increase in fuel economy.

Next, replace fuel tank with 2 separate HIGH PSI tanks. One for oxygen, one for hydrogen.

Install an HHO electrolyzer in the trunk, with a 2 gallon tank of water. route the gas created into another machine, which will separate the hydrogen from the oxygen and pressurize them in their separate tanks to be sent to the engine. this one can be setup to run on any standard 110v outlet.

It is my theory that efficiency is key. Although an electric motor would be a more efficient use of the energy, I don't got the money for that kind of mod to my car... this is utilizing the already in place infrastructure of transpo, to replace gasoline with hydrogen... in a nutshell, you have to install a new fuel tank, and 2 electrolyzers. one that runs with the engine, and one you plug in.

Answer 1

I don't know about the political ramifications, but its technically incorrect.  

Water is not a fuel, in fact its hydrogen "fuel" that was already burned eons ago.  The best you could say is that its a potential fuel stock that requires even more processing than corn in a silo  to extract from it or transform it into something than can be burned.

Answer 2

You either asked this before or it is circulating around the Internet.  

It's not at all obvious what advantage there is to having separate tanks for hydrogen and oxygen, nor to expending the power necessary to compress the gases.  

Conventional automobile engines may have a tough time running on hydrogen anyway.  It tends to detonate under high compression.

Answer 3

If we start calling water a fuel, I am sure some gigantic company will find a way to charge an outrageous price for it. I suggest we just leave it at water. Perhaps we should use the hydrogen to heat more water, and run our engines on steam.

If steam will move a locomotive and a long line of rail cars, I am sure it would (and has)move a car, also.

Or, as an alternative, use the steam to turn a generator, to charge batteries, with added solar panels to aid in faster recovery, and use electric motors.

we have the technology, we just need to get some working models.

Answer 4

It's not correct in any way!

Answer 5

The water is in fact the source of the fuels (hydrogen and oxygen), however it is not the fuel itself. Moreover energy is needed to split the water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen.

Of course the process is much more complicated.

Answer 6

When you break water down into its components of atomic structure Hydrogen and Oxgyen it is a very efficient fuel

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