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In 1989, an inventor by the name of Stanley Meyer claimed that he ran a dune buggy on water instead of petrol. He alleged that he had created a dune buggy which could travel across the United States on twenty-two gallons of water. He replaced the spark plugs with "injectors" to spray a fine mist of water into the engine cylinders, which he claimed were subjected to an eletrical resonance . The "fuel cell" would split the water mist into hydrogen and oxygen gas, which would then be combusted back into water vapour in a conventional internal combustion engine to produce net energy.He died in 1998 while celebrating the success of his invention with his brother and two financial backers from Belgium. Although his cause of death was stated as having been a brain aneurysm, many have speculated that he was poisoned so that the news of his invention would not spread and decrease the need for foreign oil. At the time of his death, Stanley Meyer had twenty patents on many water-fueled inventions. Who knows for sure?
Some of Stan Meyer's patents expired in June of 2007. But as of yet, no one has been able to duplicate his experiments. No one has been able to make an internal combustion engine run entirely on water.
it will be great if we can be indepence from using oil, water will be one of the best solution for our future
ReplyDeleteYeah, if only the masterminds would stop coming up mysteriously missing soon after unveiling.
ReplyDeleteThis violates the laws of thermodynamics. Gasoline can be used as a fuel because it has high energy bonds between the atoms. When you combust gas, it moves from the high energy state to a lower energy state. The energy released is what powers the car. Water is already in a lower energy state, so to make hydrogen, to have to ADD energy. You can then combust the hydrogen to get water again, but in any reaction, you always have ineffieciency. Water/hydrogen can be used to power cars, but you have to get then energy from another source, not from the water itself.
ReplyDeleteYeah, AJ is right. Sure, a water powered car makes a great headline, but it's usually a little more complicated than it seems.
ReplyDeleteCold Fusion, anyone?
ReplyDeleteIt's always complicated if we don't know it, but it doesn't mean impossible. Once we discover the way, it'll help us greatly. Time of the oil usage is almost running out..., coal and gas will follow too...
ReplyDeleteI want to post a correction to people's understanding of chemistry. Energy is not gained when chemical bonds are broken. Energy is only gained when chemical bonds are formed. Gasoline is easy to pull apart, and when it creates co2 and water as output, that's where it produces energy.
ReplyDeleteAnd volarex, tell me how it is possible to get a net energy gain from turning water and co2 into gasoline, and then burning that? Because that would be the same process as splitting the water and reforming it.
A hydrogen on demand vehicle uses some kind of chemical reaction to produce hydrogen from water. The hydrogen is then burned in an internal combustion engine or used in a fuel cell to generate electricity which powers the vehicle. While these may seem at first sight to be 'water-fuelled cars', they actually take their energy from the chemical that reacts with water, and vehicles of this type are not precluded by the laws of nature. Aluminium, magnesium, and sodium borohydride are substances that react with water to generate hydrogen, and all have been used in hydrogen on demand prototypes. Eventually, the chemical runs out and has to be replenished.In all cases the energy required to produce such compounds exceeds the energy obtained from their reaction with water.
ReplyDeleteOne example of a hydrogen on demand device, created by scientists from the University of Minnesota and the Weizmann Institute of Science, uses boron to generate hydrogen from water. An article in New Scientist in July 2006 described the power source under the headline "A fuel tank full of water," and they quote Abu-Hamed as saying:
“ The aim is to produce the hydrogen on-board at a rate matching the demand of the car engine. We want to use the boron to save transporting and storing the hydrogen. ”
A vehicle powered by the device would take on water and boron instead of petrol, and generate boron trioxide. The chemical reactions describing the energy generation are:
4B + 6H2O → 2B2O3 + 6H2 [Hydrogen Generation Step]
6H2 + 3O2 → 6H2O [Combustion step]
The balanced chemical equation representing the overall process (hydrogen generation and combustion) is:
4B + 3O2 → 2 B2O3
As shown above, boron trioxide is the only net byproduct, and it could be removed from the car and turned back into boron and reused. Electricity input is required to complete this process which Al-Hamed suggests could come from solar panels.
"Electricity input is required to complete this process."
ReplyDeleteThere you go.
Water's the most abundant stuff on the planet, there's gotta be a way to efficiently break it up into its two very combustible elements. Shit, aluminum used to be more expensive than platinum until they found an inexpensive way to distill it from bauxite, and it's almost as common as water.
ReplyDeleteSean have a point, Aluminium was more expensive than platinum. Before the Hall-Héroult process was developed, aluminium was exceedingly difficult to extract from its various ores. This made pure aluminium more valuable than gold. Bars of aluminium were exhibited alongside the French crown jewels at the Exposition Universelle of 1855, and Napoleon III was said to have reserved a set of aluminium dinner plates for his most honoured guests.
ReplyDeleteStan Meyer water car is reality...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGqCaVFWIWQ
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