Are you happy or depressed that future cars can be made to run on water instead of oil?
September 13, 2009 in Politics
Did you know that you can save fuel and run your car on water
Eric S asked:
Assume these cars can run on salt water from the Atlantic Ocean, so we wouldn’t even have to worry about losing water to drink. H20 gets converted into Hydrogen fuel. This one car can travel 100 miles on 4 ounces of water and no gasoline.
What if this means future car fuel is $0.00 per gallon and 100% clean? Would you be happy or depressed?
And you know who would hurt the most if this were true?!
Saudi Arabia, haha, no water in a desert, AND no more oil revenues.
Did you know that you can save fuel and run your car on water
Well, happy of course.
If it were true i would be happy. The fact is the water has to be converted to hydrogen and oxygen which takes enoumous amounts of power from , you guessed it, oil.
I heard about this and I’d be happy as a clam!
Well it still won’t be $0/gallon but it would be cheap, clean and plentiful which would be great..
The Middle East would then be only a empty, useless desert!!! I would love it!
this would actually be awful…..drought is one of the biggest issues facing the world….
Using a resource like water to fuel our vehicles is pretty irresponsible.
And no, I am not a fan of oil.
It will most certainly cause more dehyrdration related health issues (death), the water that “gets created into more vapor and cause more rain” will be collected and used again for fuel…..it will never again be used to hyrdate people.
Thats the issue with this and pretty much why it would never be put into mass use….hell we have “drought” issues in the US annually.
Sorry, but all this ‘new water’ would be used for gas, you guys really don’t have an understanding how much gas we use do you?
Try thinking with a little foresight, its probably one the things we do worst in the world.
I’ll drink to that!
Yes lets use all our h2o for transportation instead of living, that would be the stupidest thing we could do, besides using food for gas.
Well that would be great. But I am sure that someone will figure out a way to charge us $4 a gallon for water.
Well, the oil companies won’t be too happy unless they can buy all of the patents.
Do you really need to ask? Happy of course. No one likes feeding their car a small fortune every week.
*However, I’m certain that the Greenies would find some reason to b*tch. That seems to be their whole purpose on Earth.
To comment on what a previous answer said, No it will not cause more drought.
The vapor will go in the sky, replenishing the water in the clouds, creating MORE water and LESS drought because car driving everywhere making watervapor go in the sky will take drought away by alot!
I am EXTREMELY happy with this idea.
your celebrations are too premature. these cars do not run on water but hydrogen. and to make hydrogen you need electricity, which again takes you to oil or coal, which are not $0.00 nor 100% clean.
now tell me: are you happy or depressed?
Well, if they can make that work, I’d be extremely happy, who wouldn’t be?
Happy of course. There will probably be a special ingredient added to the water so that our cars will run. And will only charge us $3.50 a gallon at the pumps. You think the government can afford to lose all its tax revenue?
i wonder if the car would go if i peed in it. i pee alot after i drink!
How could anyone not be happy? Unless they are oil companies! Then they will need subsidies to provide us with water, and the cons will give it to them while they gouge the rest of us.
Not going to happen.
Corporations would have to do the conversion process and it would be horribly expensive, as it could not be done in an automobile.
The cost to turn enough H2O into hydrogen fuel in order to replace gas would be prohibitive and by the time technology made it possible/affordable on a mass scale, another more practical long term fuel source will already be discovered.
Our economy would crash. Think of all of the jobs that will be lost in the oil companies and the gas stations.
I don’t let the state of future cars determine my mood.
Well at this time and place, yes. But what’ll happen in several decades time? How much oil was there before we put it in our cars? How much salt will be left once its been running in our cars? No matter how many fuels we find that we can use, we will deplete them, toss away the empty remains and find another fuel.
I would rejoice!
We are not going to have cars that “run on water.” Here’s why:
To extract hydrogen from water (or electrons, in the latest scam in the news today from Japan) takes energy–and the chemical reaction that you get will not produce more power than you put in in the first place. Therefore you won’t have any energy left over to move the car.
Thats basic physics and chemistry. The “water-powered car” scam has been around since the 1950s. Its amazing that anyone is stilll so ignorant as to falll for it.
We won’t be using oil in the future, though (thankfully). We will be suing electric cars or some other technology (electric is the most likely). But that is based on real science and technology, not on fantasies and scams.
Happy! – green fuel is the way to go.
Pollution has made cancer China’s leading cause of death, according to it’s Ministry of Health. People in most of China’s industrialized cities rarely see the sun.
I think Oil is crap, and we should be investing more into green energy, it’s the future – with no side-effects. It won’t happen tomorrow – but the sooner we start, the better!.
In principle, I would be happy. I have seen this claim before and i have grave reservations about it’s actual implementation.
The process you describe is called electrolysis. Broken down from the Greek root, that means spliiting water (into H2 and O2) by means of electricity.
As a Chemist, I’m familiar with this process. It’s one of the earliest experiments you do in HS chemistry. The speed with which this occurs is directly related to the amount of electrical energy you have available.
In order to make this practical, several things need to be implemented. You need to have that energy available, you have to trap both the oxygen and hydrogen, store it, release it, pressurize it, and deliver it to a device which will convert it back into water, either an internal combustion engine (like we use now) and external combustion engine (like a steam engine) or a fuel cell, and then deliver that energy to the wheels to make the car go.
Simply comparing the amount oof energy needed to lyse the water, and it’s combustion by any of the methods noted, shows an energy deficit, i.e. the amount of energy you put in is less than the energy you can obtain.
It gets more complicated when you have to account for the storage (compression into metal hydride, or simple compression) because this requires pumps which use a lot of energy. Think in terms of air conditioning which uses a compressor.
Then you have the additional losses in heat and friction (transmission, axles, etc)
Add all these factors together and you will see that, in terms of energy to the wheels, we will get very little for the amount of energy used and lost.
And we didn’t even address the amount of rolling inertia created by the huge bank of batteries needed to break down the water!
The ?Hydrogen on Demand? technology!Now Hydrogen is coming back. It?s in fashion, everybody is talking about it – and 1000?s are actually doing it! I mean doing it at home, not buying Hydrogen at the gas pump. Because buying Hydrogen at the pump pulls us all the way back to square one – being dependent on a monopoly for such a vital resource as transportation and home energy.http://car-run-on-water-reviews.blogspot.com/