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Water Powered Car?

Has anyone tried to add the water powered accessory to their car. If you do not know what I mean do a search for water powered car and you will find out. It is intriguing...

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It is nothing but a SCAM.

    1. it is a perpetual motion machine. They use energy from the alternator to electrolyze water to H2 and O2, which is then burned in the engine, which turns the alternator to generate electricity... etc.

    2. If such a thing worked, don't you think the auto manufacturers, who are under a lot of pressure from governments to improve mileage, would not have bought this up and include it in every auto?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It is a scam, period.

    From an energy standpoint, you need to give a car energy for it to operate. This can be from a charged battery, or by adding fuel such as gasoline or hydrogen. Burning hydrogen or gasoline produces water as a result.

    A gasoline engine takes is a large amount of energy in from the fuel. A fraction will be converted to mechanical energy which will allow the your car to move and operate accessories. The rest is converted into heat and is lost through the cooling system or out your exhaust.

    "Water powered cars" do exactly the same thing. The difference is that some of the mechanical energy goes to the alternator which is used to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen burns to give back energy to the car. The problem is that there is no free lunch. It's like you paying a dollar to attempt to make more than a dollar. In this case your only getting back roughly ten cents.

    The driver of such a car thinks they are going getting better fuel mileage when in fact their fuel mileage is going down. Since this process does very little, it's not noticeable. Some people are so stubborn that they wholeheartedly believe that this will work. Good for the makers of the system since they are making money.

  • 1 decade ago

    I did, actually i baught a guide on the web, it helped me convert my honda to run on water, I mean the car isn't run on only water thats probably impossible. The hydrogen is extracted from water through electrolysis, the hydrogen as I understand helps in burning the gasoline more efficiently by giving a somewhat bigger explosion, heck I am saving around 80 bucks a week on gas and I dont use my car that often ( job and groceries). But yeah about those conversion guides I baught two before I found the one that explained it right to me, for anyone that wishes to do this, I would suggest to go check out a website that rates them and gives there opinion on each guide.

    This is the website I baught it from, go there and scroll down for there review:

    http://www.squidoo.com/runacaronwaterfuel

  • 5 years ago

    This feels like a lotta nonsense. although, there's a slender threat that it may be authentic. in case you knew each and every factor that the government grew to become into in contact in, you would be afraid to circulate to sleep at night. massive oil companies and vehicle manufacturers have been many times used to place rigidity on inventors including your pal. additionally, even in the experience that your tale is authentic is an fullyyt different tale. although, i'm final independent. I even have continuously heard that something is obtainable

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  • 1 decade ago

    you are asking about the browns gas generators 6 cell type like water 4 gas system, yes we are using it at this time on 3 rides of mine a 1976 GM 4x4 with a 350,a 1999 chy. , and a 1985 4x4 ford diesel the MPG has improved on all three . this is the test rides to meet my goal 50MPG on old school rides.

  • 1 decade ago

    in a simple term, this is using the hydrogen fuel technology which is used for the hyrid car at this moment.

    For conventional car, to allow you to run your car on water (hydrogen), you will need to modify your car to allow it to split water molecules. This splitting process called electrolysis.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    haha You all crack me up. I have a hydrogen device that I will be installing on my car. It supplements the gas, not replaces it. Soon everyone will know about this I hope.

  • 1 decade ago

    Sounds like smoke and mirrors to me.

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