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3/09/2011

What do you think?

Is this for real?



I'm going to have to go with "NO," since 1) the video was posted summer 2010 and I haven't heard anything else about it, 2) it troubles me that his "water fueled car" is currently set up as a hybrid--I wonder what percentage of the power comes from the water, and how much from the gasoline, and 3) the history of water fuelled cars is strewn with fraud, hoax, and overblown claims.

TANSTAAFL

2 comments:

Sean D Sorrentino said...

It's horse hockey. It works like this. If you burn hydrogen, it becomes water. If you use electricity to break up water into its component parts, 2 molecules hydrogen to 1 molecule Oxygen, you have to use at least the same amount of energy as you would receive by burning the hydrogen/oxgen mix. It's basic physics. Energy out cannot be greater than energy in. Hydrogen cannot be used as a power source, only as a sort of chemical battery.

The reason that the tip of the torch stays cool is that a gas, when it expands, gets cold. The reporter should get slapped for his credulity.

bluesun said...

Yes. Thus, TANSTAAFL.