How can we get more cars that use water only as a fuel and reduce our "addiction to oil?"?

Question

Big business, politicians, and the media have kept water as a fuel secret for over 40 years because it just makes good business sense for them to make all the money they can. Let my people go in vehicles that use water as a fuel!

In 1965, I saw a 1/4 to 1/2 scale Plexiglas model of a vehicle at the US Army Transportation School that used water and a battery as its total source of fuel. It was very expensive and was touted as being our next vehicle for all services.

Answer 1

There have been silly rumors about this sort of thing for many years. You can find multiple references to this on the Internet. Water is basically burnt hydrogen. You can't burn it again unless you remove the oxygen by electrolysis, and that is expensive.

Answer 2

You never had a high school chemistry class, I see. Or an economics or business class.

Water doesn't burn. It won't run a car engine.

You can split water into oxygen and hydrogen using electrolysis, and then burn the 2 together to run an engine. But the process will use more energy to split them than you'll gain combining them. It would be like having a big big block V8 running the generator to split them, and getting enough fuel to only run a 4 cylinder.

And assuming you could use water as a fuel, it wouldn't have been kept a secret for long. There's too many bright people out there that could have figured out how to do it, and then set up a business marketing it. Big oil, big business, politicians, etc. couldn't have kept it a secret that long.

And media keep a secret? Hah! They run for the nearest camera or microphone when they think they have the merest snippet of a story. They would never try to suppress anything this big, if it was true.

Answer 3

It would require 3 steps, with the last one being the most difficult.
1) Invent a 1 h.p. engine that runs on water only.
2) Scale it up to 100 h.p.
3) Hire the U.S. Army to prevent "Big Oil" from destroying the 100 factories that will be manufacturing the 100 h.p. engines.

Answer 4

Water as fuel is still too expensive for the average consumer. Get it to the consumer cheaper, with a cheaper changeout for the engines still running gas, and you're set.

Answer 5

If you are talking about that browns gas invention, I don't know if that even works yet or if it can use water as the only source. There is too little information as of yet about it. Stay skeptical until there is more information.

Answer 6

Water fueled cars don't exist. There are however cars that can run off of corn. That's renewable and would help AMERICAN farmers.

Answer 7

If it was possible, someone would have produced it, and sold it.