Water powered Cars?

Question

Why won't the government allow them (yes, the are very real)

Answer 1

Got a source for your information?

Water cannot power a car by itself.  The water molecule contains little energy.  Saying you could power a car solely with it is like saying you have a perpetual motion machine.  Scientifically impossible.

You can use water in combination with an energy source to power a car.  The government isn't stopping you.

EDIT - It's called a fuel cell car, and the basic energy source is electricity, used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which do contain a lot of energy.  The government isn't  not allowing them, they're trying to encourage people to build them.

http://www.nrel.gov/education/jss_hfc.ht...

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/revi...

http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/15/autos/gm...

The problem is that right now, they're too expensive.

Google "fuel cell car" for more info.

Answer 2

where do we get the electricity to get the hydrogen?  Coal power plant?

Answer 3

This guys trying to fly under the radar and get his patent out before hes stopped by the government but i think its the big oil  company's more then the government stopping all the new ideas . I hope he makes it . http://www.first-molecule.com

Answer 4

this concept was invented already almost a  hundred years ago by Rupolh Steiner ,he was assasinated by the petrol Industry for his genius ,

they are sitting on it and wont considder mass production as long as they are making money with Petrol.

Answer 5

Is impossible for in state of H^2 0 is we use the component in state of gas is posiible.

Answer 6

There is no such thing as a water powered car.  You can power a car with hydrogen produced from water, but the production of hydrogen requires some form of energy either electrical energy for electrolysis or heat energy for steam reforming.  Currently, steam reforming is the most economical way to produce hydrogen (it uses less energy).  In either event, you will consume more energy producing the hydrogen than you will recover when you burn it to power your car.  This is an example of the second law of thermodynamics and it is inevitable.  No one is stopping you or anyone else from building a car that runs on hydrogen, but it will be expensive to operate.  Anyone that tells you that a car can be fueled by water alone is either ignorant or a charlatan.

Answer 7

Check out something called the Tesla Engine.... Oil interests control the govt. That is all.

Answer 8

Bush is involved in the "Oil business" could be 1 reason

Answer 9

the shouldnt be allow cuz there will be more water shortages in the wolrd specially in countries were water is really hard to find if it was some kind of salt water then its ok. ALso the engines for those cars must be really expensive and its really big risk to take specially for the economy of developing countries

Answer 10

Water is still a natural resource. Which means a limited supply. What is need is an unlimited supply such as our earths natural production of magnetic field, or gravity.

Answer 11

if the goverment allowes them so against who is going to be the next war....

Answer 12

Yeah they do exist. Too bad Exxon-Mobil owns the patent. It is very possible to power a vehicle with water it's not the actual water molecule that powers the machine, it is the hydrogen within the molecule. Saying water has no energy is like saying, the Earth doesn't revolve around the Sun.

Answer 13

I heard of a pressurized air powered car in India, I wonder if it was a April's Fool topic on Yahoo news...jajaajaj

Answer 14

Can the Pinoy Pipol will adopt this Car the H20 powered car some say its more expensive than regular car, will this hit the Market we dont know yet i never see one running in the streets and Freeway here in U.S. but there is a Prototype already''i think they still conducting research on it