What automotive company will use sea water for fuel, as shown on saltwaterfuel.mov?

Question

This is a real possability, and I want the a company to contact John Kanzius, who discovered this technique, to be notified by an automotive company or companies.

Answer 1

There are a lot of crack-pots out there and it looks like you've found one.

Answer 2

Chevron Water Co.

Answer 3

Forget about automobiles, why not power cargo ships, fishing boats, cruise ships and Navy vessels with this technology instead?  Afterall, they are already near the supply of sea water.

Answer 4

Your link does not go to a working website. You might want to check to see if you can get the correct URL.

Essentially most of these schemes involve the use of electricity to produce hydrogen from water.

Through the use of electrolysis with water, it takes approximately 50 kilowatt hours of electricity to produce an amount of hydrogen with the energy equivalent of one gallon of gasoline.

Water is not an energy source. The hydrogen in water can be used to effectively store electrical energy for later use.

But first you have to put energy into it.

Unfortuately you have to put much more energy into it than you get back out when you burn the hydrogen to operate an automobile.

This is only practial when the energy would be completely wasted if it were not stored as hydrogen.

For example when electricity is generated with wind power, the wind does not always blow when you need it.

If you save the energy in the electricity by using electrolysis to produce hydrogen from water you save some of the energy that otherwise would have been lost.

(edit) I tracked John Kanzius down using google.  Apparently he uses radio waves to produce hydrogen from water. this is essentially a form of electrolysis.

If you measure the amount of electricity used to produce the radio waves you will find that you are using at least 50 kilowatt hours of electricity to produce an amount of hydrogen with an energy equivalent of one gallon of gasoline.

Producing hydrogen from water using electricity generated by wind power is wonderful but it is not cheap.

Answer 5

Why do people believe stuff like this.  If this was remotely possible, we'd do it.

Next you are going to believe in the car that runs forever on 1 gallon of gas.