did you know that you could fuel a car with just water, if you separate the hydrogen from the oxygen?

Question

the final emission will be water again, as you mix the hydrogen and the oxigen with air and spark it

Answer 1

You statement is basically correct, in fact a standard internal combustion engine can be used to do this with a small modification. There would be some other chemicals involved to keep the engine working correctly but very small emissions of anything toxic.

Besides the obvious drawback of how to separate the compound, there is an issue of storage. Hydrogen requires a large pressure for it to become liquid. High pressure gas and 100mph plus vehicles don't mix well.

Personally I believe the hydrogen powered vehicle has great merit and think more research should be done into the storage issue instead of messing around with battery vehicles.

Answer 2

Hydrogen is flammable - that is why that is sweet for gas! the priority is that that is high priced. A hydrogen based automobile is fairly high priced, and is not sensible, and is unquestionably not except gas expenditures go sky intense (my wager could be approximately $10-$12/gallon). massive Oil would not have the skill to circumvent it from being marketed - the rights might in simple terms grow to be too high priced for them to discover the money for. And in the event that they bought the patents, they could build engines and furnish hydrogen to make $$$. yet besides the undeniable fact that, that's incentive for them to maintain gas expenditures somewhat decrease, too...

Answer 3

You aren't fuelling a car with water, you are fuelling it with hydrogen.

Water is used hydrogen. It takes a great amount of energy to split water so hydrogen is just an inefficient energy store, not a fuel.

In the same way you can fuel somebody with a donut and a cup of coffee but you can't fuel them with a used donut.

Answer 4

It actually takes a lot of electricity to reduce the water into H2 and O2. So ideally (in a perfect world) you could set up a solar panel that generates electricity to separate the water into H2 and O2. Then you would use a fuel cell to convert the H2 back to water, and in the process generate electricity.

The only flaw here is that H20 -> H2 + O2 is kinetically slow, so it takes alot of electricity to separate.

Answer 5

And since it takes energy to separate the hydrogen and oxygen in water, what have you gained?

Answer 6

Nope, I guess it'll save money later on gas, try living in GA you cant even drink water, (not really but still)

Answer 7

I've converted my car ;)
Here's a video all about it:
http://www.infectiousvideos.com/index.php?p=showvid&sid=2145&o=20&idx=8&sb=daily&a=playvid&r=Equinox_-_It_Runs_on_Water_(Free_Energy_-_1995)

Answer 8

Yes but it's probably more complicated than that other wise we would have it already.