Powered by Water, This is some pretty crazy stuff! Options

[Supersprynt]

http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/05/22/vid...power-for-cars/

[ILuvMyCelica95]

wow! that's awesome!!!

[j0e_p3t]

crazy... i wonder how fast a water-charged car can go.

[bigal004321]

well they are hybrid so it would prolly be water until a certain speed than gasoline would kick in to maintain that speed.

bigal

[hitcachi]

and.................................................................................. he just became a billionaire.

[x_itchy_b_x]

invest stock in that company now...

[Defgeph]

Awesome.

[BlackSTX]

Technology to make power by separating the hydrogen from water has been around for years. The big stumbling block has been building a system compact enough to fit in a car and getting car companies to develop it. There needs to be more entrepreneurs to make this thing feasible, because existing companies are in bed with the oil companies, along with the government, and will never let it get off the ground.

[Supersprynt]

I dont think automakers are in bed with oil companies considering they wont be selling any cars if gas consumption is greatly improved.

They need to sell cars, not make secret agreements with cars and right now gas is peoples concern when buying a new car.

[hitcachi]

Technology to make power by separating the hydrogen from water has been around for years. The big stumbling block has been building a system compact enough to fit in a car and getting car companies to develop it. There needs to be more entrepreneurs to make this thing feasible, because existing companies are in bed with the oil companies, along with the government, and will never let it get off the ground.

lol. He IS the entrepreneur! Did you miss the part that said he was planning on selling the patented prototype of his water powered car to major companies and the U.S. government.

[ScoobyDooCruiser]

The problem with hydrolysis is still this: It takes more energy to separate oxygen from hydrogen in water than burning the hydrogen could ever create, so any hydrogen fuel cells would need to be plugged in at night (or plugged in some where) to perform the hydrolysis.


Its not really a problem with anyone bieng in bed with anyone anywhere. Its a simple physics principle: There is no such thing as a free lunch. (or, the greater number of transfers of energy, the less effecient the system).

And, since most areas use non-renewable power sources for the electrical energy (In CA I think some 65% or so of electrical energy comes from non-renewable sources) regardless of if you have an electrical vehicle, a hydrogen fuel cell, or a standard internal combustion engine, all are using fossil fuels (and actually the electric cars are less effecient, gleaning about 11% of the origianl potential energy from the fossil fuels, while and internal combustion engine gleans about 17% of the original potential energy from fossil fuels.)

So, until fossil fuels are so expensive that solar wind and hydroelectric become cheaper sources of energy, or environmental regulations let up to all nuclear power more feasible, prices of powering vehicles will continue to go up.

If anyone is interested, I did a study of the efficiency and energy loss of various forms of transport for a class a few years ago. The data is all from 2004-2005 but its still a good essay if anyone is interested.

But, besides all that, that torch in the video looks awesome.

[Benevolence]

Yeah, don't get too excited just yet.

[easternpiro1]

you guys should see the nice little geek fight that they got into towards the middle of the discusssion posts. i posted a nice little smartass one liner...

[BBoYRuGGeD]

wow i wonder if he has a grand daughter so i can marry into his family and become a GAJILLIONAIRE! lol j/k

bboy

[celicurr]

ha! ya, I think that's on google video or youtube somewhere too. crazy, eh?