Water Fuel?

[RWB]

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/28372/Water_as_Fuel.html

Here is the company site... http://www.hytechapps.com/

[Nightwolf]

Pretty cool.

[deicist]

Sounds like it runs on good old fashioned Bull to me. Unless this guy has stumbled on an entirely new kind of physics there's no way this is real.

edit: in fact it isn't real, it's just the latest scam artist trying to make money out of 'Brown's gas'

linkage (http://www.phact.org/e/bgas.htm)

[RWB]

Well I know that news report came from Fox news in Houston... so I know that broadcast isn't faked...

[drasnor]

I'm stupider for having read that.

-drasnor :fold:

[RWB]

I didn't read it.. I am guessing it's a joke? (At work, no time for reading :P )

[Jengo]

it looks real cause its on the news, but i dunno....

[drasnor]

In brief, they sell electrolysis devices that create Aquygen™, their trademarked name for the 2H2O2 gas mixture. This mixture is highly reactive and is extremely dangerous to store in any quantity. We in aerospace tend to separate the mixture in to H2 and O2 and store them separately to reduce the risk of spontaneous explosion. Remember the Hindenberg? That was H2 and air. Now imagine a welding bottle of 2H2O2 at 150 atmospheres. People have died this way.

-drasnor :fold:

[RWB]

But he says it's safe... and I read a title in that link while on a call with a guest... "brown gas" sounds like a joke to me ;D

[EMT]

This is neither too good to be true, nor as great as it sounds. Water isn't a fuel in the way that oil is. It can be converted into fuel (H2) and then it's more like oil. All you need is electricity to do this. But the amount of electricity you use to create the H2 is always more than the energy you harness by subsequently burning the H2.

I think the future holds more use of electricity/hydrogen as a medium for the energy since fossil fuels won't be around forever. But we'll need a new original source of energy, so we'll likely go into nuclear and invest more in renewables.

[drasnor]

The logical thing to do when you're making this stuff is to use DC and collect the H2 and the O2 to different tanks instead of compressing it as a mixture.

For the record, my money is on orbiting solar power satellites.

-drasnor :fold: