Petroleum is crazy expensive, and the planet’s running out. What are the alternatives? Forget ethanol, biodiesel, fuel cells, thermo-depolymerization and hybrids. Japanese company Genepax has upped the ante with a car that’s supposedly powered by water.
They claim the process uses water and air to power batteries and emits no CO2. Any kind of water can be used and the car will run for an hour (top speed 50mph) on only a liter.
Reuters reports:
“The car will continue to run as long as you have a bottle of water to top up from time to time,” Genepax CEO Kiyoshi Hirasawa told local broadcaster TV Tokyo.
“It does not require you to build up an infrastructure to recharge your batteries, which is usually the case for most electric cars,” he added.
Once the water is poured into the tank at the back of the car, the a generator breaks it down and uses it to create electrical power, TV Tokyo said.
[ via Tech-On!]
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Wow, if this is real then we’re really onto something
June 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
yes if this is ‘real’ we would be onto new laws of physics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genepax
;-J
June 16th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
thats all great. but where does the energy converter gets its energy from??
June 17th, 2008 at 4:58 am
I think this is another engine that separates hydrogen and oxygen from water. The last time someone tried to bring this to market in the US, the inventor Stanley Meyer, mysteriously died. There is a new guy in the US, Jimmy Cline. There is a guy in the Philipines who as discovered it as well, Daniel Dingel. I hate to say it, but big oil companies will not let this happen. If it is to succeed, going to have to happen under the radar, punk rock style, open sourced. Do some searches on YouTube and you can see news stories on all of these guys. They are all years old.
June 17th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Can we run our car with water and gas?
Can anybody tell me is the HHO Gas is real working or is another scam?
June 19th, 2008 at 4:33 am
hi there, I use water to fuel a car as a supplement to gasoline. In fact, very little water is needed, only one quart of water provides over 1800 gallons of HHO gas which can literally last for months and significantly increase your car fuel efficiently, improve emissions quality, and save money. I found the way through this site http://www.runcarsonwater.us i really recommend it to everybody, it’s a nice ebook where you can find the instructions on how to do it! take a look.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:44 am