The WaterCar
The web is changing science. Whether the established
powers like it or not, people
are forming teams, doing research.
But the water car could be b.s. I'm
not sure.
In any case it's a fantastic case
study in the power of the web to spread misinformation as much as information.
What is the water car? Well a car that
runs on water. Rather than going to a gas station you
just put the garden hose into your tank. Or at least that's the myth. Is
it a web myth? dunno.
I mean think about it. We have cars
that run on hydrogen. There are small fleets of them
all around the world. I have a friend who will soon be driving a hydrogen
car to publicize them.
Water is made of Oxygen and hydrogen,
would it be possible to run a hydrogen car with
just split water? I remember from science 9 that all it takes to split
water is a little jolt of electricity.
Electolysis.
The general thinking on this is that
you could do it, but it would take so much energy to create
the hydrogen that it would be a bad idea.
This truck
made by a highschool class shows the conventional
energetic equation in action. Massive solar panels are required to help
it split the hydrogen required to
drive a very short distance.
But the physics behind the watercar
are not traditional. The general theory is that the electrolysis
reaction can be made hyper-efficient somehow and that it can CREATE MORE
ENERGY THAN PUT IN.
This of course goes way beyond
cars. If such a thing were possible we would have no more need of nasty
nuclear and oil fired electrical generators, and life in general would become
easier. That's why I don't believe it.
But you have to understand...
a lot of people do.
There is a
yahoo mailing
list that discusses the water car. It is largely dedicated to the work
of Daniel
Dingle
, a philipino inventor. There are videos made by people who went to visit
him of his car... but one fellow
said he smelled gas when he went to the exhaust pipe...
Here's a
discussion board
on watercars.
This morning I found
this britsh company
selling a programmable pulse signal generator for water cars. Clearly,
we're looking for a kind of resonance effect that splits water. A frequency
or sequence of frequencies that breaks it apart. When the opera singer breaks
the wine glass by singing a certain note, (and worrying it) she is doing this.
But water is a medium, more like air isn't it? It's not a structure like
a wine glass?
A
paper from MIT
"It turns out that the frequency shifts "were dictated by the geometrical
configuration of positive and negative charges on the water molecule"
Keely was a scientist in
the 1800's. Some
watercar stuff on Keelynet.
Running a gasoline engine on hydrogen using water
.
The india times says a
water car is coming soon
. Another
article
.
One of the guys in this are I
respect keeps up the
hydrogen news
These guys are doing hydrogen
on demand using a
metal hydride
.
Part of the legend is that there
was an inventor named
Stan Meyers
who was killed for building a water car.
Here is some of his work
.
Puharich
is a guru
Paper on low current electrolysis
.
A publishing company
out to defeat conspiracy
.
You have to understand there is lots
of weird energy
out there.
Eagle research
sells kits for watercars...
Another company
... I've heard it doesn't work.
Amotor that
just sold on ebay.
A
website in pursuit
of the watercar.
A
book on how to
make watercars.
One link I don't have here is a company that
sells watersplitter to truck drivers. Turns out that a little shot of hydrogen
in the gas can increase mileage 20%...
My conclusion is that this may not work. I am going to keep reading and
watching though. Water is
an amazing substance perhaps its ability to split apart with very little
energy input is another feature of it
that remains to be documented.
There are some great videos at
http://harti.com/griffin/
I'll mirror them here in qt:
Alluminum and Iron
electrolysis
fireworks
go cart
Lead Tin
water-splitting_reactor