Water-powered car featured in local TV news report
The hydrogen economy is closer than we think. At least, that's the image portrayed by this TV news report from FOX 26 (as far as I can tell, the report aired last year, and I'm not sure which city this FOX 26 is in. For our purposes, these details don't really matter). The report focuses on Denny Klein, president of Hydrogen Technology Applications, and his water-powered car. There is some impressive imagery at work in the piece. Seeing someone pour water into an engine and getting energy out of it is pretty amazing. And slicing through metal with a water-based flame? Cool.
The actual technology is not as new or revolutionary as the reporter or the anchors make it out to be, but it is interesting to see how this technology – The Auto Channel says it's essentially Brown's Gas – is explained to the TV viewer. Wikipedia says, and I agree, to treat claims of running a car on this electrolyzed water with skepticism. Cool video, though. Very cool.
[Source: FOX 26 via The Auto Channel]
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Doug McNeil 10:10PM (5/21/2006)
Water goes in, water comes out -- so where does the energy come from? These are perpetual motion machines -- which have a long, sorry history. The problem is not Big Oil, but the Laws of Nature. Anyone who invests in this is just throwing their money away.
There are no cars in Iceland that run on water. Who manufactures them? Is there a credible source of information about this? I thought not.
If this were true, it could be easily demonstrated just by driving the car back and forth across the country several times under controlled conditions, adding only water when necessary. But I won't be holding my breath waiting for such a simple demonstration.
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Randy Rayburn 10:16PM (5/21/2006)
The water fueled vehicle is real. A company in Largo Fl. has design and the government is very interested for their use. I doubt we will ever see this technology though as the oil companies will buy it out and shelve it as they have done with all other fuel efficient technology for the sake of their enormous profit. such as the 90 mpg carburator developed over 15 years ago.
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Lonnie 10:40PM (5/21/2006)
Steam engine? DUH!!!! With our technology we shouldn't have to use coal to heat the water!
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Lonnie 10:42PM (5/21/2006)
Forget modern technology you geeks. Steam ie. water......Modern efficient to make steam without coal! DUHHHH
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chels 10:44PM (5/21/2006)
fox 26 is houston based. www.fox26.com
i live here so i would know.
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Lee robey 10:45PM (5/21/2006)
Hydrogen is in fact very easy to make. Cars have been
powered by hydrogen since the 1930's. There are patents for hydrogen carbs. available. Very easy to
produce commercially. Take solar panels, attach +
wire to one side of container with anodes, attach - wire to other side, fill with distilled water,bleed
off hydrogen on one side, oxygen on the other side, compress in tanks with a solar powered compressor.
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Kevin 10:48PM (5/21/2006)
Here is part of the problem with alternative fuels or high mileage cars. ROAD TAXES! That is it in a nut shell. The government depends on those taxes, if we started getting 50 miles to the gallon the Feds will go broke! I think the answer to their dilemma is a toll road system that uses transponders to charge us for the road use. The more you drive the more you pay and your vehicle is tracked and road tax paid by the mile you drive.
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cecil bowling 10:55PM (5/21/2006)
no such thing 90mpg carburator gas $10.00 gal. sell it you will buy it.
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pete 10:56PM (5/21/2006)
you guys are all haters! A water powered car is awesome! America doestnt want people to have good gas, because gasoline is one of the biggest selling things! they make sooo much money off of all of us everyday.
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Carl 11:15PM (5/21/2006)
Haven't any of you ever read the Carl Cella Water Fueled Car article and Plans at http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/water.html ? He has been running his 1979 Cadillac Coupe De Ville on hydrogen since 1983, and never had a problem with it. You should read it and bulid one yourself before you make discount using hydrogen as a fuel.
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D J MANNING 11:22PM (5/21/2006)
WHAT IS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT. HOW ABOUT THE PERPETUAL MOTION VEHICLE DEVELOPED BY A CALIFORNIA MAN BACK IN THE 1970'S AND THE GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT SERIALIZE IT!
ANYWAY, OUR FATHER WILL BE BACK SOON AND THERE WILL BE NO NEED ANY KIND OF VEHICLE FUEL. YO, JACK
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Monte Albertson 11:26PM (5/21/2006)
I have a theory that the oil industry is getting all they can now because other technologies will slowly drive them out. We will always need oil but maybe not gasoline or diesel fuel. Hopefully they will take their recent profits and develop alternative energy that's more affordable.
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Joe Lamons 11:26PM (5/21/2006)
While I am completely supportive of new technology, the web site in the article is from 2003 had two featured items. A car which suppliments gas usage by extracting hydrogen gas based fuel (aquygen)from a high capacity alternator,electrolosis, and de-ionized water. The site only recorded 2 trial runs of 60 miles. The car supposively increased from 24MPG to 49MPG. Second is a torch which is fueled by same hydrogen based fuel, but requires 17A @ 230VAC contstant power to feed the electrolysis process. That is not a far saving from typical welding. Hopefully further tests can be done, and people will combine existing technologies to create cars with reasonable driveability and superior fuel economy. Even the alternative "corn" fuels are creating record "profits" for refiners and kept away from helping the average American.
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Carl 11:28PM (5/21/2006)
Haven't any of you ever read the Carl Cella Water Fueled Car article and Plans at http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/water.html ? He has been running his 1979 Cadillac Coupe De Ville on hydrogen since 1983, and never had a problem with it. You should read it and build one yourself before you discount using hydrogen as a fuel.
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Bill C 11:37PM (5/21/2006)
The story was on Tampa's Fox 13. They have a high repitation for getting story correct, not sensational. I believe the story. Uses the Hydrogen compound/derivative with gas to up the milage about 50%. The company is in Clearwater Florida.
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Drew 11:37PM (5/21/2006)
This is for all you "brainiacs" who like to use BIG WORDS but forget how to SPELL THEM!! Wise up!!
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Jim 11:46PM (5/21/2006)
Yeah, right. Cover your vehicle with solar cells and after a day in the sun you have captured enough energy to perhaps move the vehicle a few hundred yards. Check out the energy delivered by the sun per square meter and then check out the efficiency of solar cells (do the physics !).
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derek 11:49PM (5/21/2006)
someone needs to ski ski ski all over this cuz NOT TRUE theres no way this is factual, otherwise some genuis at GM would have figured it out sooner, therefor, we would all be filling up our cars w/ the garden hose and not with 70 bucks at a shell
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Dave 11:53PM (5/21/2006)
The price for a litre of gas in Venezuela, is $.03, which is about $.11 cents per gallon. Lets start sending out tankers to Venezuela to fill up, and bring it back to the states. Oh yeah I forgot thats illegal, the people need to stand up and put an end to this. If someone starts, you can count me in.
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Brian Aspenleiter 11:55PM (5/21/2006)
As shallow as americans are, this water powered car or air for that matter, would need to do 0 - 60 in under 5.0 and have the name of German company for anyone to believe it or buy it.
So Sad
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