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How much time do we have to wait for the water engine? Cars that run with water not gas.?
By Carol Moore | August 20, 2008
Hydrogen engine, sorry about that mistake.
Water engines have been around for over 100 years. They are typically called steam engines. If your maybe asking about hydrogen engines they are currently in developement and have made great advances but we probably won't see them around in the market anytime soon if the oil companies have anything to say about it.
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January 16th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Cars that run on water are just hydrogen cars.
Water is H2O, 2 molecules of Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen.
They break off the H and use it.
Its just cheaper to put in hydrogen than to break it up from water in a car.
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January 16th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Like, 4ever!
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January 16th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Water engines have been around for over 100 years. They are typically called steam engines. If your maybe asking about hydrogen engines they are currently in developement and have made great advances but we probably won't see them around in the market anytime soon if the oil companies have anything to say about it.
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January 16th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
The stanley steamer worked on water… and fuel! I think you could run them on stovewood.
But if you're talking about getting energy from water, it's not gonna happen. You can use electricity to generate hydrogen, then burn it to get energy, either in the cylinders or in fuel cells, but you need a source of electricity.
Most energy sources are bulky and stationary, except fuel. Battery power may work, and compressed hydrogen will work, as a kind of stored energy, but you need to make it somewhere else and transfer it to your car.
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January 16th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
The only fuel value contained in water is the hydrogen. Using present technology, the energy required to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen atoms is greater than the energy that can be recaptured to do work by burning hydrogen in an internal combustion engine or putting it through a fuel cell.
The cost (energy cost and dollar cost) of producing hydrogen in large quantities is one of the main problems preventing it's large-scale use. That, and the difficulty in storing and transporting it.
Don't hold your breath. You won't be filling your car's tank with a garden hose any time soon.
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January 16th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
It depends on which is more efficient. It could take from one year to 1000 years it all depends.
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January 16th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I don't think there is any theory that posits that this is possible, so you'll be waiting a long time. Alternative fuels being proposed: Hydrogen, Hydrogen fuel-cell, bio-diesel, ethanol, but not H2O
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