What would be one positive and one negative of using water instead of gasoline as a fuel source for cars?

Question

What would be one positive and one negative of using water instead of gasoline as a fuel source for cars?

Answer 1

Positive:  Cleaner air

Negative:  As long as the oil companies exist, it will never happen.

Try to watch the doc called "Who killed the electric car"

You'll understand.

Answer 2

Positive: improve local economy - people would stay close to home and buy local ...

Negative: would not be able to go anywhere (except downstream?)

Answer 3

Well the biggest negative is that water is not a fuel, since it doesn't burn.

Answer 4

In the southwestern USA, water is scarce so availability would be an issue. Plus it takes more water to produce an equal amount of power when compared to fossil fuels.

The positive is that perhaps Big Fossil Fuel companies may find an economic advantage to convert sea water and have it piped saving on the transportation cost. You know, like the Alaskan pipeline? Except this would be the Sea Water Pipeline.

Answer 5

There are no positives, because it will not work.  This is also the one negative.  You cannot use water as a fuel.  Please get this through your thick skull, it will not work, it will never work.

Answer 6

nichole

Hydrogen is a great option for the concept of free energy.     I built my first hydrogen cell about 5 years ago and now currently run 2 trucks, 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 http://www.agua-luna.com/hydrogen.html 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 http://www.agua-luna.com/guides.html

    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.

    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 http://www.agua-luna.com/hydrogen.html It also covers the other 2 methods described in more detail.

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 http://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

Retired Boeing Engineer now living 100% Off-the-Grid with my family, using Alternative Energy & loving every minute.

for more info visit agua-luna com or email me at [e-mail]

Answer 7

The hydrogene idea is already a bit antedeluvian!

(like a Pentium I)

Water car = already running

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVhXrvCCI...

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good deal with cheap (eg) oxy stock options on put

(i really like ray irani and he will never go bancrupt)

Negetive: If everybody's on the road, no one could drive

(I live part time in Dubai, it's h**l - 14track highway and 1 hour for 3 miles !!)

Answer 8

The Arabs would starve - positive. The ground water would be depleted - negative.

Answer 9

One negative is that water doesn't burn and can't be used as a fuel.  The positive is that by not using cars, we would reduce air pollution.

Maybe you meant splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, and running cars on hydrogen.

One positive is that hydrogen can be burned in a fuel cell with no emissions, and no CO2 emissions.  Completely clean.

One negative is that hydrogen is extremely difficult to store, requires a high pressure tank.  Hydrogen liquifies at a low temperature so storing as liquid hydrogen is expensive.

In addition, explosion limits of hydrogen are VERY broad, about any concentration in air is explosive.  Unlike gasoline where just the right fuel/air mixture is needed to explode.

Answer 10

1. It will never work.

2. They would find a way to tax it.

Answer 11

one positive is we would save alot of money. the one negative would be less drinking water.

Answer 12

positive......

cleaner air, from the exhaust

negative......

oil companies, and producing nations would not be able to hold the world hostage and gouge all consumers .......

this is just an opinion, of course

Answer 13

Water is not a fuel, as evidenced by its tendency to extinguish fire.