Water being used as alternative fuel?

Question

Chevrolet, and many other car companies are starting to make vehicles that run off of water. Don't you think it is sad that this was one of the FIRST things used as fuel? It is 2008 and our main fuel source is polluting the atmosphere, and we are going back to one of the most primitive sources of energy ever made. We have the most cutting-edge technology ever made, but the energy used to give it power is slowing killing the planet. Why isnt there more scientists thinking of NEW ways to make power, and not just changing the old ones?

Answer 1

gasoline makes a lot of people A LOT of money..... its all about the money dude... nobody cares about the earth. .. i do

Answer 2

The hydrogen engine would be the best news for environmentalists since Earth Day began!  We need this. And this is a "new" way.  Totally clean, cheap, and efficient.

Answer 3

Till a non electrolytic process for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen or some hydroxide is developed, this is a non starter. (Pun intended)

Answer 4

Water was not used as a portable fuel. It may have been turned into steam, but that required burning other fuels, wood, oil, and so on. So, no, we aren't going back to water.

As for producing electricity or mechanical motion, water has never gone out of style.

Experiments with water as fuel have been going on for decades. The problem is efficiency. Unfortunately, running equipment to extract hydrogen and oxygen out of the water consumes all the resulting energy. There's nothing left to do any work. More efficient engine designs are promising. Experiments were done with the Wankel rotary for example.

Fuel choices are driven by the market. If it's available, practical, and affordable, people use it. Plain and simple.

Answer 5

there's no government cover up, consumers choose what industries sell. you want it you got it, ow you don't want it ok what do you want? ow you like gasoline ok  we'll change our designs, ow you don't like gasoline anymore? ok what now, ow back to water. ok we'll do that....

let me start off by saying Hydrogen is a great option for the concept of free energy.     I built my first hydrogen cell about 5 years ago. Have converted over 50 vehicles in the last 10 years (gydrogen and EV) and now currently run 2 trucks (and another EV), my home hot water heater, home stove and home generator on hydrogen for free with caught rain water and the help of a $10 solar panel.  I offer a step by step DIY guide to walk anyone interested threw the process. You can find it at www agua-luna com or you can email me.

There are basically 3 safe ways to make and use it... chemically, electrically and molecularly, the first 2 being easier so I'll only discuss them here. The fallowing steps were taking directly out of a DIY guide I offer to those who would like to run their vehicles or home on hydrogen safely. The entire guide is available at www agua-luna com

    On demand h2 generators are a bit different from the Hollywood versions like seen Chain Reaction with Keanu Reeves, that tend to explode violently every time a film is being made. However when used in an on-demand system there is no storage of hydrogen and oxygen in its gas form, only liquid (water) and is only transformed into gas “on-demand” in small cylinder size amounts. It’s actually safer then gasoline as it doesn’t evaporate, creating explosive fumes in the tank like gas. the following were actually taken out of my $5 guide available at www agua-luna com

    Chemically

    1. You’ll need a 6inch x 1ft schedule 40 pvc pipe. With pvc cement glue a cap on the bottom and use a s***w on cap for the top. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, s******g in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your engine (carburetor or fuel injections).

    2. Now crunch up a couple aluminum cans (beer cans, soda cans etc) and drop them into the pvc pipe, along with a couple cups of lye (Red Devil drain opener has lye in it, some Clorox and Drano’s do to).

    3. Then simply add water, s***w on the top and wait a few minutes.

    What happens in simplicity is that aluminum and lye don’t really get along so they battle, and as always the innocent civilians (water H2O) that the most casualties, by giving up its hydrogen and oxygen. This then builds up in the void of the pipe and is ready to be vented into your engine, by opening the valve. You may need to start your engine on gas then switch it off after the hydrogen starts burning.

    Electrical is a bit easier then Chemically.

    1. Simply take a small solar panel 1.5 amps is what I use ($9 at harborfreight.com), connect the 2 wires from the panel +- to 2 conductors (carbon cores of batteries work well, just be careful removing it from the jacket), but any conductive material will work ie. Copper, aluminum, steel, etc.

    2. Drop the wires into a water tank (I use 55gal drums), make sure they don’t touch each other.

    3. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, s******g in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your engine (carburetor or fuel injections).

    4. Then simply add water, s***w on the top cap and wait.

    After a few hours tiny bubbles will form and rise off one conductor (that’s hydrogen) and even smaller bubbles that just looks like foam will rise off the other (oxygen). I don’t remember which likes the positive and which likes the neg hydrogen or the oxygen.

    The third method is more complicated and is what I use for my vehicles. It’s just a modified Joe’s Cell, there’s a step by step DIY guide available to walk you threw the process here www agua-luna com

It also covers the other 2 methods described in more detail.

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Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at  www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

Dan Martin

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Answer 6

Water cannot be used as a fuel.  It is impossible, it will not work, it will never work.  Please stop asking this type of question.  Remember, it is better to remain silent and be thought an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Answer 7

only if it's already polluted water

Answer 8

Boy are you on it. I guess Big Business has kept it a secret along with other things that only a few know about

Answer 9

People are using water because it is CHEAP, unlike Gas. Instead of scientist using technology to find new ways, lets just use what we have. Water is a continues source, when we use water as a source of energy, i believe it evaporates. It goes and forms clouds, which then precipitates, and we can use it again. I think it is fine to use what we already have than wasting other sources.

Plus scientist are think of new ways- nuclear, Greek elements ( except fire).

Answer 10

Now let us be careful what we think is happening.

If water is being split into hydrogen and oxygen to power a car, when the car is finished with it, the water is all returned to earth, unchanged.

The amount of energy available to power teh car is far less than the energy needed to split the water, but the water is not being lost.