Can cars run on the hydrogen in water? Is this real technology?

Question

http://www.lonelantern.org/h20poweredcar.html

Answer 1

I've been wondering if it's possible for a while. Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't, but the site you linked to looks a little shady. I call shenannigans!

Answer 2

Yes, but there are tow issues with it. The first is the enrgy needed to separate the hydrogen from the water molecules. This is not a trviail amount of energy, so to generate the hydrogen, yo wold need to use some other energy source first, and that source would actually use more energy than the car! The other issue is that hydroen is highly flammable and explosive. For a better description of this, read or view accounts of the Hindenburg disaster. That dirigible was filled with Hydrogen as opposed to Helium. Imagine a fender bender with THAT fuel source!

Answer 3

yes, but right now the tech is expensive. It is being researched for an inexpensive way to make fuel cells so every car will have one. so yes real tech and yes cars can run on water. the hard part for people to understand is that its only hydrogen a car can run off. you have to slipt the hydrogen and oxygen atoms of water molecules then you have to isolate the hydrogen from the oxygen and water. the holy grail of fuel cell technology is to find a way to split water efficently, seperate the atoms, store the hydrogen, and have a fuel cell all in one in a car. the hard part really is storing hydrogen because it has to be in liquid form. after looking up Stan Meyer on wikipedia an readig the article on Water fuel cell
and Stan failed to operate his car in a court hearing in ohio after which he had to pay 25,000 dollars to investors. Most likely stan is a fraud but a different process is plausible in which 2 hydrogen atoms are combined with an oxygen atom which makes electricity and water in the form of a vapor.

Answer 4

Hydrogen economy is possible - but far from implementation today. It's a great source, because hydrogen is the most abundant element and does not lead to pollution/harm to the environment. However, most hydrogen is trapped in water molecules and fuels. High-temperature electrolysis is required to break apart the molecules to use for energy. So...it's possible, but we're not yet there (:

hope this helps!

Answer 5

Yes hydrogen technology is very real. It is years away from a consumer market though.

Answer 6

DO NOT call yourself jack bauer if you dont know everything. this is a simple question that the real jack bauer would know the answer to. and yes it is real tech. but it is costly and as of now, not worth the conversion, because there are no hydrogen fuel stations, and only prototype cars in the making.

Answer 7

yes it's possible. but never seen it :(.
well, there also can that can run on C2. it's much more easier and cheaper than hydrogen in water. most important thing that it doesn't need for real well developed technology!

Answer 8

Not the "HHO Water" stuff you're seeing on the TV or the web -- that's a scam.

But hydrogen is a **possible**, though not currently economically viable, source of energy for a variety of uses.

Answer 9

probably- there is a vast difference between technology that actually exists, and the technology that the masses are allowed to know about and/or utilize. (the technology used to build the pyramids still exists, it's just horded by a very tiny group of high level mystery school initiates)

Answer 10

Cars can run on a lot of other things than just gasoline,but the real Big money is in oil.The Government isn't looking for a solution to the problem.There's no money in a solution.

Answer 11

Yes but the "big oil" companies will never let it hit the market, it would completly ravage their industry. Mark my words people when we find a better answer than cumbustable gases like oil there will be a 2nd Great Depression!