can in reality a car run on water or a mixture of water and chemicals?

Question

if a car can run on any other liquid other than fossil fuel either petrol or diesel

Answer 1

Yes, the water is the humidity in the air & the chemical is gasoline

Answer 2

In WWII many vehicles where converted to work of other things. Any type of thin refined oil, can be used to run a Diesel Engine!
Alcohol mixed with other things, Can be used to run a Petrol Engine. Bus's in the UK where converted to run on Gas. At the time, I think the choices where Hydrogen (Contains large quantities of Water) and "City Gas" which I think is Methane.
As someone pointed out already, the first cars had steam engines, but they still had to burn other fuels to create the steam.

I think the Technology you have in mind was the Fuel Cell developed by NASA. With that system, Water was passed into the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen came out of the other end and passed to the engine. As it was almost totally clean burning, only steam and water comes out of the exhaust. The Cell itself then needs replacing once expired.

Answer 3

Strictly speaking, diesel isn't the fuel, but the compression-ignition engine. Over the decades this engine has bee found to work efficiently with a particular fraction of crude oil, once called DERV (for Diesel-Engined Road Vehicle). The first diesel engines were actually powered by coal dust. Petrol cars use spark-ignition engines.

Water is a product of the combustion of any fuel containing hydrogen - energy is released in the creation of water, but is required to break it. Apart from reacting it with alkaline metals (e.g sodium) I cannot think of any reaction with water that is exothermic, hence could be used to provide power.

A spark ignition engine can be made to run on many gas or liquid fuels e.g. hydrogen, alcohols (methanol or ethanol), methane, propane, butane, octane.
Diesel engines can be made to run on a variety of heavier fuels such as vegetable (or even animal) oils. Therefore it is possible to run either type of engine on non-fossil fuels, but at present it is not possible to economically supply enough non-fossil fuels to meet demand, as well as some technical issues to overcome with the use of bio-fuels with modern diesel injection systems, or at low temperatures.

Answer 4

plenty lack of understanding, it makes my head spin.... A scientist in Florida, i think, those days discovered a thank you to very effectively chop up water into hydrogen and oxygen making use of radio waves. This progression makes the hydrogen powered card plenty greater conceivable. Hydrogen has consistently been eye-catching as a gasoline as a results of fact it incorporates diverse capability and releases no pollution whilst burned. the disadvantage has consistently been arising a secure thank you to keep it. Hyrdogen is explosive under maximum circumstances. protecting a powerful grant on a vehicle demands severe secure practices measures. Splitting water to create hydrogen gasoline on board smartly sidesteps that difficulty. Batteries could skill an RF generator which effectively generates hydrogen as mandatory out of water. The hydrogen then is going to the engine the place it fairly is burned to run the vehicle. No great keep of hydrogen, no explosion possibility, in undemanding terms a tank of water. it fairly is a neat theory. word to all you Einstiens: it fairly is actual. I nevertheless like powering an electric motor promptly, even though it fairly is one attitude some vehicle makers are discovering.

Answer 5

Not in an ordinary internal combustion engine, but GM have designed a car that runs on a hydrogen power cell thats similar to a Nuclear reactor only considerably less powerful Problem is unless you intend to pay nearly £1Million for a Vectra then it'll be a few years before we see them in much use!!

Answer 6

It should do. Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. Hydrogen can be used as fuel and to burn needs oxygen. So it just needs the right type of injectors - lol.

Can you imagine how much a glass of water to drink would cost then, by the time the government had taxed it !!!

Answer 7

There used to be a rumour that this technology HAS been invented, but the oil companies bought out the patent for an obscenely huge sum - to protect their own future earnings.

Nice story but it's prolly just Urban Legend.

Answer 8

yes if the metallurgy is right, its called steam power, been in use for a long time, modern equiptment has forgotten the how to in the never ending quest to burn up all the oil in the world

Answer 9

yes if you want to carry a huge enormous tank of water bigger than any car along with you ...........gigantic!

Answer 10

WHAT EVER YOU BURN IN YOUR CAR,I HOPE ITS CHEEPER THAN GAS