Fox 26 News

If it were feasible, we would see large sums of development money being spent on developing it. Rather on all-electric and hybrid-electric power-trains.

I think Solid Oxide Fuel Cells – or variants – hold a great deal of hope for the future.

The U Tube vid is different to the one I saw. I am wondering re Fox26 News, surly a T.V. Company would not televise such an item without investigating whether it were true or not.
Or would they.
We can’t decry every “New” invention that’s discovered on a daily basis, as they say, where there is smoke there is fire.

Lincoln. 7

Surely you mean that the other way round; that a car manufacturer would want this technology and an oil company would try to hide it?

Of course if we could run our cars on water we wouldn’t be much better-off; the government needs to raise the tax through fuel-duty and then VAT on the fuel and the duty (:rolleyes:) plus the revenue generated from the oil companies in the first place. This tax would have to be raised somewhere else so we’d still end up paying.

Actually I think that fuel-duty is one of the fairer taxes; if you’ve got a big gas-guzzling car you pay proportionally more tax for it.

Just had an email from a friend in Aus, it’s a clip from Fox 26 News, shows a chap in the U,S.A. who uses H.H.O. which he has patented to get an internal combustion engine to run on a mixture of water and electricity.
Don’t ask me how, cos if I knew, I wouldn’t be typing this.
He tried it on his Ford Escort, and did 100 miles to 4, yes,4 ounces of WATER. He has been to Washington, and the USA Army, has got him to develop a Humvee,version to suit that particular vehicle, apparently at Washington he proved it worked. A major Motor vehicle manufacturer is very interested.
Guess if it goes into full production, there will be no more petrol price hikes,the list would be endless.

Lincoln .7

If a motor manufacturer gets hold of it they will hide it away never to see the light of day. I would be far more inclined to think of a fuel producer taking an interest as they are the people with a vested interest in ensuring people buy fossil fuels. Back in the late 70s/eatly 80s there were a couple of guys in France who decided to produce a 2 seat helicopter using (as far as posssible) truck and car parts. They reckoned that the machine they built could be mnufactured and sold profitably for £4000 or there about. Accordingly Aerospatiale or one of their forerunners bought the design and killed it as it would have killed their trade in light 2 seat helicopters

I’m always intrigued by claims that you can run a car engine on water; it’s usually related to some form of urban myth because most people know that water is made from hydrogen and oxygen and these two make perfect fuels.

All it needs is a little snake oil added to the water…. 😎

I’m always intrigued by claims that you can run a car engine on water; it’s usually related to some form of urban myth because most people know that water is made from hydrogen and oxygen and these two make perfect fuels.

Chemistry was never my thing but I always like to point out that water is what you get if you burn hydrogen in the presence of oxygen. My analogy is that smoke and ash are what you get if you burn wood…

…so if I gave you some smoke and ash could you light a fire? :rolleyes:

Interesting that this process requires the addition of electricity and if you put in electricity you can easily separate the hydrogen and oxygen from water, the trouble is that if you then burn the hydrogen to make electricity you don’t get enough electricity to make the amount of hydrogen that you’ve burnt; otherwise it’s perpetual motion!

It would be nice if it worked though; man’s energy problems solved overnight.

Clip is here…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaqlKTlE19o

Mind you the clip was posted in 26 July 2009…:rolleyes:

So don’t hold your breath… 😉