Can water be used in place of gasoline?

Answer 1

No the chemical composition will cause the substance to defuse and then erupt..................so don't do it!

Answer 2

There is no way you can substitute water for gasoline in an internal combustion engine that is designed to burn gasoline. Gasoline and water are completely opposite. Gasoline burns in the engine (and it will also burn outside an engine but DO NOT TRY IT as you will rapidly go up in a serious fire and end up being a small pile of ash. Water does not burn either inside an internal combustion engine or outside it. If you doubt this, take a bowl of water outside, light a match and see what happens when you bring the lit match in contact with the water.

Now, if you were to decompose water into hydrogen and oxygen (which reqires a lot of energy to do but it can be done), and you separate the hydrogen from the oxygen, the hydrogen can be used as a fuel. Its combustion product is water which is very clean burning. Hydrogen is a gas, is the lowest molecular weight gas, is hard to contain, hard to transport, and even more dangerous than is natural gas so converting hydrogen into a motor fuel has a lot of challenges to overcome. An alternative is to react the hydrogen with carbon dioxide from the air and make methanol. Methanol, a flammable liquid, also called wood alcohol, can be used as a motor fuel in a modified internal combustion engine. The combustion products would be water and carbon dioxide - however since you used up carbon dioxide to make methanol, the net result is no change in carbon dioxide emission so this should satisfy the carbon dioxide emission concerned people as well.

There have been numerous scams in regards to using water in place of or along with gasoline. None of these have been proposed by the technical comunity. At the end of the day, it becomes clear these scams are proposed by the deceptive community who often claim a major conspiracy including governments, oil companies, chemical companies, auto companies, etc prevents their "breakthrough" technology from reaching the marketplace. All of this is stated to convince the technically naive that their fraudulent product has merit which it does not.

Answer 3

Water as you know contains two very combustable elements...
Hydrogen and Oxygen. (H2O)

These two elements can be seperated out of water using a process called electrolysis. The only problem with electrolysis, is that it takes electricity to happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis

The amount of electricity to make an adequate amount of Hydrogen + Oxygen for a combustable engine, would be enough electricity to run the car on an electric motor instead.

I read an article recently where a retired engineer used solar power for electrolysis, then used the hydrogen and oxygen to run a generator for about 24 hours each month.

I think this is it here > http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=12185

Answer 4

If you were to do a google search on the Water Powered car you would likely be directed to a failry recent find in which a researcher found that adding an aluminum-galium alloy to water would result in a spontaneaous reaction that would produce aluminum-oxide and hydrogen.

So if this were true, I guess there is evidence that we could possibly be powering our cars from water one day.

There are others links to a pure electrolosys system which is equivalent to a perpetual motion machine and has since been debunked.

Answer 5

No. Gasoline BURNS. It is burning inside your engine where you do not see it, but is is burning. It is fire. Water puts out a fire. So until someone can set water on fire, there is no way to use water instead of gasoline as fuel in a car.

Answer 6

in a conventional car, I wouldnt recomend it, but there is tons of energy stored in the bonds holding the hydrogen and oxygens together that I am sure either breaking the bonds or reconnecting them will have the potential to power a vehicle.

Answer 7

Yes, if you can find a very old car that was powered by a steam engine. (As there were many years ago).
(I saw them as a small child in the mid 1930's).

Answer 8

There are some interesting claims for such.
It won't come to market very soon, if true.

The economy would collapse.
Oil Stocks would become worthless.
Unemployment would soar.
All existing gas engines would become worthless.

Answer 9

i think so, but you need a special type of engine and you would need a lot more water than gasoline....

Answer 10

No, it is entirely the wrong chemical composition.