Car that runs on water.

[Pyrochaos]

www.thatvideosite.com/view/2602.html

Sweet!

[The Charming Canuck]

That is freakin Awesome!!!! But unfortunaltey the people with the power have an eco wrecking agenda.

[SlowlyWasADemon]

That's awesome.

[abrannan]

Yes, but how much energy does it take to break water down into this so-called "HHO" gas? And how much energy do you get from it? Even on his site, he only talks about it increasing fuel efficiency 23-50%, not running a car on water only.

Even if it's a bust for fuel, it's a big leap forward in welding technology, which is generally high power usage anyway.

[NESCartFanatic]

So it IS a boat :-P

(sorry, lame joke)

[legend]

So whats better Electric cars or cars the run on water?

[abrannan]

If both actually existed? (I'm skeptical about the "run on water" thing) The Car that runs on water. Electric Cars have a fairly limited range (fine for day-to-day use, but no good for long road trips), and take too long to charge. There's some promising research into using nontechnology to produce capacitors that can act as fast charging batteries, but it'd be a long time before they'd be ready for that kind of application. Plus, with electric cars, you'd still have to generate the power *somewhere*. Just because you can't see your local coal-fired electric plant doesn't mean it's not polluting.

We have the technology today to put a serious dent in foreign oil usage, but it'd take too much of a coordinated investment from both a US automaker (who are already near bankruptcy), an argicultural conglomerate, and a fuel company to make the necessary infrastructure changes. It's a chicken and egg problem, nobody will buy an alternative fuel car unless there's easy access to that fuel all over the entire country. And no fuel company is going to put that alternative fuel all over the country unless there are a significant number of cars that use it. The only way to truly make it work is with government grants, and this administration is chasing the mythological "hydrogen economy", while the european automakers are making the true advances with diesel engines.

Take a VW Jetta TDI (50-ish MPG on bio-diesel), add a Toyota Hybrid drive to it (generally about +40% efficiency), and you've got a car that gets ~70 MPG on fuel (soy, not corn) grown by American farmers, that doesn't require that all mechanics learn a new engine type.

[hectored]

sweet

[sakura]

take that high gas prices