i saw that in the 70 s someone invented an engine that worked on pure distilled water. any idea who and where?

Answer 1

It sounds like someone who was trying to get money from poor suckers who don't know anything about science.

Answer 2

You can't run an engine on water any more than
you could heat your house by burning ashes.
Water is the ash produced by burning hydrogen,
it has already burned so it can't burn any more.
Various people have claimed to have engines that
would run on water. They have been either swindlers or self-deluded.

Steam engines are using some other fuel to heat
the water that produces the steam power. Hydrogen can be used to power an engine, but
the energy needed to separate hydrogen from
water is greater than the energy produced by
burning the resulting hydrogen. As the saying
goes, there's no such thing as a free lunch. You
can't get energy for nothing.

Answer 3

I heard about it back then too. The guy was supposedly snuffed (killed) by the Texas Oil Cartel and the formula was destroyed. Of course, now that the TOC is enjoying it's day in the sun, with it's puppet in the whitehouse, the hydrogen fuel will not be available till your children are long dead.

It's all about the money.

Answer 4

it was the 1700s .you heat water, when it turns to steam its volume increases 1400%. do this in a cylinder with a piston on one end an you got a steam engine.

Answer 5

that engine was using electricity to extract hydrogen from water, then burn hydrogen as fuel. In the end, it was way less effective then electric cars.

Answer 6

Thats impossible. It requires energy to break the hydrogen oxygen bond, energy isnt released from breaking it.

Answer 7

I've read of one somewhere in South America but I think it is a hoax.