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Water-powered cars are already possible, through the fuel cell process whose technology is already available, albeit at a very high price.
As with any technology (i.e. computers, cell phones, automobiles in general), the price is high now, but just wait, and the technology will be more widespread in the future. It just takes time.
I'm not saying the water is inexpensive. I see what you mean, but to an extent it can cost much much less.
first, If you were to make the engine yourself It would be pretty cheap, but you would have to have the knowledge. Which, if you did enough research on the internet and some dedicated time would be do-able.
Second, Stan Meyers invented an injector that goes inplace of the spark plug, and with a little clean up of the engine, and this injector, you can easily convert a normal combustible engine into a water powered engine. this would probably cost around $300 or so. Unfortunatly nobody knows how to make it and Stan Meyers is dead. The pattens with scematics are available on the internet, and the patten has timed out. So it only takes someone capable of understanding his scematics and making it, and there are plenty of well qualified scientists in this world.
Oh, it's definitely much less expensive over time. That's why I think it's such a great idea.
I didn't know about the injector, but I'd like to learn more about it. I wonder if the principle is to split the water into H and O and then inject it into the chamber and ignite it, just like gasoline today, and then collect the water as exhaust. That must be it, I can't think of any other way. But yeah, it's all really, really cool stuff and in just a few years, with the right innovation, it could be affordable and easy for everyone.
It's a lot more complicated actually. Its like the fuel cell but the plates switch polarities very quickly back and forth, causing the molecules to get excited and turning it into a steam before seperating it into H and O. Then, there is an electron collector that pulls the electrons of the H and O making it unstable so it decays and the energy from the nuclear fisson (or fusion) actually powers the engine or something. It's crazy
Wow, you are so wrong it's funny. I don't mean to be a dick, but come on...a car powered by fission (or fusion). That's hilarious. Let me show a video on how it actually works, so you don't go putting a nuclear reactor in your car.
Ha you are so stupid it's not that funny..... Im Not talking about the hydrogen fuel cell. Im talking about an injector created my STANLEY MEYERS. THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS THE FUEL CELL. This is run purely by water, and does all the things I have said, Not pure Hydrogen like in your video. The injector is not used anywhere either. After Stanley Meyers died, nobody has been able to create the injector based off his schematics. And I dont think I'm going to mess with nuclear fission/fussion. Haha, that would be bad. But now you know ;)
Once again, I would ask you to do your research. Stanly Meyers supposed car split water into hydrogen and oxygen, and then performed electrolysis (see the video mentioned above). The reason it could run on pure water was because he claimed that the electrolysis that split the water into hydrogen and oxygen took less energy then science predicted. Let me repeat this: Stanley Meyers claimed he could create energy by breaking the laws of physics. Perhaps you need a refresher in chemistry, but you must see how this breaks the law of conservation of energy.
The example I gave was a real example of how water could theoretically power a car, using a hydrogen fuel cell. Your example is imaginary, and physically impossible. In science, experiments must be repeatable, otherwise they fall into the category of bullshit (not unlike the "discovery" of cold fission).
Holy piss man.... Let me break it down to you so you can understand.
Stanly Meyers supposed car split water into hydrogen and oxygen, and then performed electrolysis
Electrolysis is what splits the Hydrogen and oxygen. Why would he perform electrolysis after the Hydrogen and Oxygen were split.
Due to covalent bonding between an Oxygen atom and two hydrogen Atoms in H20, The oxygen atom is unstable and results in a negative charge. The hydrogen atoms are then positive. If you set up two electronic fields, one positve and one negative, you can pull the molecule apart creating oxygen and hydrogen molecules and burn the hydrogen. Unfortunatly this alone is not very economic but Stan Meyers found a solution.
He created a circuit board called the voltage intensifier which lowers the amps and increases the voltage. All this stuff I mentioned is not quite the same as his injector. His injector is a total different thing. But it seemed you didn't fully understand this and thats why I ask you to do your homework. So please visit this webstite : www.waterfuelcell.org watch the two lecture videos...you might actually learn something. Be sure to watch the video on the right first because it is part 1 of the lecture. Part 2 talks mostly about the voltage intensifier.
Yes, it can happen and the oil companies will have to compete with yet another alternate source of energy for automobiles among other things. The only thing not quite certain is the cost of refining the water for the cell usage and bringing this source to us without too much "three card Monte" playing. As Frenchie says, the cost will be up in the beginning but as time goes by it should go down.
I'd also like to see an electricity savings on the hybrid cars we have now rather than charging high household usage.
My grandfather is obsessed with machines, and whenever I visit him at our home in Sweden, we generally make the journey to a show that displays not only cars, but tractors, motorcycles, and even trains. Two years ago, at this show, a man was exhibiting an engine he created that he advertised as running on air, although it ran largely on its own momentum with some assistance from a power source such as gasoline.
Water-powered car, "air"-powered cars. These are both entirely possible if the oil companies will accept it. Although a water-powered car may not be the best idea, considering the world water shortage.
I voted no because the all powerful oil companies will never allow it to happen.
The water powered car has already been invented. The name of the man escapes me, but he actually built it in his back garage, an engine that run on tap water and produced zero fumes. Days later, the man was mourdered and the garage burnt, althought some of his designs were salvaged. The family are still trying to prove the oil companies did it. Look it up on google, its a very interesting story.
Think about it. Would they ever let us use tap water to run our cars? Their profits would be dwarfed, if they didnt totally disappear in thin air.
I know the oil will run out, but the new technology will always require a consumable, and that consumable will always be controlled so they can make large profits.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying that's the sad reality.
Stan Meyers is the name. He had been working on it for years, and then he was mysteriously poisoned. Not only was it a water powered car, but he devised a way to easily convert a normal vehicle to watered powered
I'm going to disagree on this one because the definitions are unclear. What is meant by "water powered" do you mean steam, cause they have that. Do you mean cold fusion, because there are a lot of people claiming that is possible but nothing viable has been shown. Basically it takes more energy than is produced, beyond that I don't have the expertise to explain it.
There are thousands of quacks and scam artist on the internet claiming they have water engines, just do a search on youtube, but hardly any of them are willing to have a real scientist test their engines. With modern communication it's not possible for big oil companies to keep this kind of thing under wraps, if someone made a real working "water engine" it would rock the industry over night. It would be everywhere. It simply hasn't happened yet, and probably won't because the concept isn't viable.
There are air powered engines but the tanks are huge, and the concept simply isn't scalable yet. It is interesting though and I think more realistic than a "water engine"
I mean water powered engine as in splitting water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis then burning the hydrogen to drive the pistons. I believe that is cold fusion that you referred to though. It is possible. What I was meant by the question, is not whether it is possible or not, but whether anyone would be able to mass produce it with these over powering oil companies.