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25 Jul 2008, 3:12 pm

Will water be sold by the barrel too? Then are we going to suck the earth dry of water too?



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25 Jul 2008, 4:45 pm

They have a car that runs on water - it's called a boat *shot*.



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25 Jul 2008, 6:31 pm

Fogman wrote:
GM has had a hydrogen fuel cell/electric powered vehicle protoype for over 10 years now. It's only exhaust product is pure H20. Outwardly, this vehicle appears to be much the same, however my main concern with their technology is how they are able to utilise electrolysis to separate the hydrogen, and then recombine the hydrogen to fuel the vehicle. The fuel cell to power both processes would need to be a lot larger than a comparative sized otto cycle engine.


I have wondered about that also. Breaking up water into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis requires a tremendous amount of energy in the input. In Atlanta, the city buses run on natural gas. Why can't we start building cars to run on swamp gas (Methane)? It's the main component of natural gas, it is clean burning and can be produced from just about anything that undergoes anaerobic decay.


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25 Jul 2008, 9:45 pm

Even just taking this as a Hydrogen fuel cell car, it sounds like quite an advance on current technology (as I understand it, anyway).



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26 Jul 2008, 12:13 am

I looked into it... it seems to be a hoax, the same technology as "Brown's Gas"... It's been widely discredited, and there's been nothing published about this supposed new technology in any peer-reviewed scientific journal...