Who doesn’t want a Water Powered Car that would enable you to save thousands of money and help you do your part for the environment?
It may sound too good to be true, but manufacturers are trying their best to make the water powered car a reality. At present, only prototypes have been created and they are still not available for consumers. Giant car manufacturers like Honda, Mercedes, Toyota, and BMW, are already getting busy and in the production process.
For any liquid or solid matter to function as a fuel, it should be combustible. Water is definitely not a combustible liquid. This is the reason why water can be used to extinguish fire. The logic behind this is water’s incapacity to catch fire and its capacity to smother the flame and prevent it from getting the oxygen it needs in order to burn.
Nonetheless, there is energy in water; it is chemically locked up in the atomic bonds of the hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The hydrogen atoms can be burned as fuel when they are separated from the oxygen. The concept of the water powered car is centered on the idea of making an engine that does this before burning the hydrogen as fuel. The problem with this is that the division of these atoms needs a reversing of the energy process that generated the water in the first place, which requires an input of energy equal to the energy created through the burning of hydrogen. Thus, any system that converts water into burnable hydrogen exactly needs as much energy as it creates. If the system operates at less than 100 percent efficiency, there is a need for more energy than it is able to produce.
Experts say that a water powered car doesn’t really run from pure water alone; it still needs another type of fuel to run an engine. What hydrogen does is change the way gasoline burns in the combustion chamber, enabling it to burn more efficiently. In fact, there have been a couple of engineering papers that suggest a trace of hydrogen can change the combustion attributes of ultra-lean-burning stratified-charge engines.
The only scientifically possible way for a water powered car to run is through hydroelectricity. It is the power produced from the mechanical force of falling water, instead of burning water as a fuel. When this certain power is used to charge batteries that run electric cars, this is the only way that water can power an automobile.
