Imagine if you will...it's 7:30 AM, time for you to head to work, you go outside to your car, get in, turn the key in the ignition, and realize you don't have enough fuel to get to work. No problem, you head back into the house, get a pitcher of water, and go fill up your car because you are one of the few people with a water fueled car. Sound impossible? We might not be able to do this today, but scientists are currently working to develop a viable water fueled car.
There is energy contained in water. This energy is in the bonds between the hydrogen and oxygen atoms and can be released through electrolysis or combustion by the pistons and crankshaft. Most water fueled car models utilize some form of electrolysis because this produces the most stable form of energy derived from water. The power from the electrical system in the car is used to electrolyze water into a mixture known as Brown's Gas, HHO, or ox hydrogen. This mixture consists of two hydrogen atoms to one oxygen atom. This Brown's Gas is directed to the intake manifold where it would replace that non-renewable energy source of gasoline.
There are a few examples of water fueled cars around today, but none of them are actually available to the public just yet. The most well-known example of a water fueled car was created by Stanley Meyer. Meyer took the spark plugs out of a dune buggy and used injectors instead. The injectors were used to spray a mist of water into the engine cylinders. This mist was subjected to electrical resonance. The fueled cell then split the mist into the hydrogen and oxygen molecules which generated a mini-explosion (combustion), and this is what powered the dune buggy. Essentially, Meyer created a conventional combustion engine but used water as the fuel instead of gasoline.
In 1935, Charles H. Garrett developed a carburetor which relied on water to create the spark needed to run an engine. In Garrett's system, a float-type carburetor was used with electrolysis plates in the lower portion of the carburetor. The float was used to maintain the water level in order to fuel the vehicle.
Hydrogen Technology Applications was trying to develop an alternative to the oxy-acetylene welding tool when they discovered their machine developed a mixture of hydrogen oxygen gas which they have since dubbed aquygen. This aquygen is supposed to be a form of magnegas which may be used to replace conventional gasoline in water fueled cars of the future.
More recently, the Japanese company Genepax created a water fueled car system which relies on a combination of water and air to power their vehicle. This water fueled car has an on board energy generator which extracts hydrogen from water in order to provide fuel to run the car's engine.
While water fueled cars may not be available just yet, they are certainly something that people who are concerned about the earth's future may be purchasing in a relatively short period of time.
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