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The Power of Water
Check this out... I found this amazing. Where do you think we will see this in 5 years? Maybe it will completely replace gas by then.
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damn, BC was supposed to make a water powered car years ago....
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This isn't new stuff. Splitting water molecules into hydrogen has been around for a long time. The only problem is that splitting water molecules is very expensive for any practical use. Also, hydrogen tends to blow up very easily. Anyone remember the Hindenburg zeppelin? How it blew up because of a small spark?
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Well, the car part wasn't the part that really facinated me. I found the blowtorch quite interesting. And even if the technology isn't that new, it may be new to many people here, and is certainly interesting to see.
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ya, it's neat how it's not hot to the touch when he grabs the nozzle, and then it turns back into water after
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Regardless, I would really love it if one day water-powered cars did come into society as the norm. I guess that's currently unfathomable.
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This is one conspiracy theory I'd actually pay some credence to.
There's just too much money in oil for me to honestly believe that they'd be honest enough to allow something like this to take off. Not that this guy isn't a total nut, but I'm sure somebody somewhere in a lab has come up with a viable alternative by now. |
Ever watch Mythbusters? There was an episode that that tested several "gas saving" devices, none of them actually saved gas except used vegitable oil, but there was a device similar to this. The reason it didn't work was because it couldn't produce enough hydrogen but the point is that they tested a canaster of pure hydrogen being fed into a gas powered car and it ran smoothly. If you could make it produce enough hydrogen to make a gasoline powered car run, then oil companies are in serious trouble =).
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Just set up some solar panels to collect the energy to break down the hydrogen. Problem solved. Your biggest issue would be the stability of such a fuel in a moving vehical.
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I really don't think hydrogen cars will be of much use. You'll need to compress compress all that hydrogen gas into liquid into some tank. And think what will happen if you get into a car crash. BOOM!
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And anybody who believes this Klein nut for even a minute should be embarassed. First off, this "HHO" and "Brown's Gas" is a load of shit. It's just water. Diatomic hydrogen and oxygen. HHO is just a different way of saying H2O. Second, the guy is from Clearwater! Scientology central! The fucking nut capital of the USA! |
I think GM's thing with that corn-based fuel is the next big thing. It's efficient, renewable, cheap to make, and until it becomes more available the same engines can run on deisel.
Now if only we can figure out what their problem is with people wanting fuel efficient cars and why it pains them so much to acknowledge that California and Florida aren't the only states with rising gas prices >.> |
Corn based fuel? You mean fuel that uses corn? I'm not sure what that is but if it uses corn don't you think that's kind of pointless? Instead of the oil going into cars the oil is going into growing more corn to power the cars.
Which would mean either way the oil is being used for transportation. Only one method has it going into something else before making it to the car. >_> |
Converting H20 to H-OH gas requires more energy to be put in the system than would be output by the system as you are breaking bonds.
Something tells me we aren't getting the whole story with this technology. I'm sure that torch was drawing a heavy amount of electrical energy and I'm willing to bet the gasoline part of his car is used to power the H20 -> H-OH gas conversion process. This is what sucks about the energy crisis. This is no easy answer to the problem. |
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This guy is basically either creating HHO gas by adding energy and breaking the HOH bond (which requires energy) then reforms the HOH bond though HHO gas which releases energy; or he is using 'pre-made' HHO gas which was already formed somewhere else using plenty of energy. The latter is unlikely since HHO is extremely unstable and wouldn't last long unless it is in a superheated environment. The funny thing far less energy is released when an H-OH bond is created compared to the amount of energy required to break an H-OH bond. And since HHO isn't found naturally like coal is, it requires human generated energy to make HHO fuel. The result of using HHO gas as an energy source would result in a net energy loss. HHO makes great torches though as seen. Rather than storing dangerous H and OH gas under pressure in tanks, you can just lug around water as fuel. It also burns quite cool as shown in the video. |
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