So what's the deal with the car that runs on water on Yahoo home page?

Question

In the video they really don't explain how it works. How is the water separated into H2, without using a lot of energy. Basically, where does that energy come from to power the converter. Or is this a worthless story?

Video at this link:

http://www.yahoo.com/s/899388

Answer 1

It is a scam ,do not invest in it...

Answer 2

It's a scam.

There is no escaping the long arm of the law of conservation of energy.

The car cannot run on "just water" as there needs to be some kind of external energy input, otherwise they could just take the "exhaust pipe" which supposedly only emits water and bend it around back into the fuel tank (or should I say "water tank"?) to be reused and voilà! you have yourself a perpetual motion machine.......  which doesn't exist in this universe.

My take on it is that the car actually has an installed hydrogen fuelcell or battery somewhere that they aren't mentioning.

It takes a proverbial "shіtload" of energy to generate hydrogen from water via electrolysis and the process is highly inefficent, so it's extremely unlikely that this car is in any way able to both generate enough electricity to both move the car AND generate enough electricity to produce enough hydrogen for further driving, so the hydrogen needs to be obtained elsewhere.

According to Wikipedia:

"About four percent of hydrogen gas produced worldwide is created by electrolysis. The majority of this hydrogen produced through electrolysis is a side product in the production of chlorine....

The majority of hydrogen used industrially is derived from fossil fuels. One example is fossil fuel derived hydrogen used for the creation of ammonia for fertilizer via the Haber process and for converting heavy petroleum sources to lighter fractions via hydrocracking...."   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysi...

Among other things, this means that with our current infrastructure, hydrogen powered cars still rely on fossil fuels albeit indirectly. The same thing goes for cars that use "biofuels" or electricity. Somewhere CO2 and other greenhouse gasses" are still being pumped into the atmosphere usually at from coal fired powerplants.

About the only way to cut the CO2 out of the process would be to switch to nuclear energy, which would create a whole new set of issues.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

It could be a boron and water system or a battery that uses carbon-based compounds and water.

I'm betting on the boron and water, simple , or he could be using something similar to boron for the reaction. But like you said they didn't give any details.

I'm just hoping we're not in for another round of HHO spam now.

Answer 5

how can we run on fresh water with cars that wont last long, we'll be out of fresh water and have to go after that salt water now?

Answer 6

It only runs at 60km/h for only one hour. It also electric.

Answer 7

There is a converter in which you can get that converts water molecules of oxygen and hydrogen which powers your vehicle.  You can get the guide to transform your vehicle to water and pay around $100 to install and save $100's monthly.

Answer 8

It's electrolysis...which splits water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen...  two very combustable gases...and the combustion reaction yeilds water vapor as exhaust.

this is going to sound arrogant, but this is actually a science project I worked on in 10th grade.  

This really isn't a new idea.

the problem our group ran into was that it takes energy to perform electrolysis, and the amount of energy we put in was much less than the amount of energy we recieved from the combustion reaction.. The loss was mostly attributed to friction within the reaction chamber, and poor combustion ratio. what's most interesting here, is if the japanese have a new method of splitting water into gases requiring less energy than the output... which equates to quasi-perpetual motion.

If this turns out to be real...then the possible implementations of this technology are endless.  This could literally save the planet, and reduce global conflict over fossil fuel resources.