Water -powered car released in Japan

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Video: http://www.yahoo.com/s/899388

I'm curious as to how the ion-separator itself is powered, but this is still pretty awesome. 80 kilometers distance on one liter of regular water for fuel.

This makes up for all the creepy Japanese tentacle-lolita-porn and that god-awful Natto stuff they eat.
 
The Lizard said:
Video: http://www.yahoo.com/s/899388

I'm curious as to how the ion-separator itself is powered, but this is still pretty awesome. 80 kilometers distance on one liter of regular water for fuel.

This makes up for all the creepy Japanese tentacle-lolita-porn and that god-awful Natto stuff they eat.
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...and we'll never see them in the states because the oil executives won't profit off of them.
 
In related news, Chevron and Exxon acquire all rights to water. 100 million people die of dehydration.

lol, give it time.
 
The Lizard said:
Video: http://www.yahoo.com/s/899388

I'm curious as to how the ion-separator itself is powered, but this is still pretty awesome.
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Not really. Some prognosticators are already saying that wars in the future will be fought over - water. If these water-powered cars replace conventional gasoline powered cars I could definitely see that coming true.

I, for one, feel the battery powered cars are the way to go.
 
LazloSpeeker said:
Not really. Some prognosticators are already saying that wars in the future will be fought over - water. If these water-powered cars replace conventional gasoline powered cars I could definitely see that coming true.

I, for one, feel the battery powered cars are the way to go.
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Got a link? I've never heard that, could be interesting. Usually stuff like this doesn't really use up water though, most water powered designs I've seen also exhaust water vapor.

And the problem with battery powered cars is that would jack up electrical use by a ton, power that's often produced by coal or natural gas burning anyway. Unless we start building more nuclear plants it's not going to help the environment much.
 
So...they weren't very explicit about the source of energy...

Is this car using power generated by the combustion of Hydrogen, or does it harvest the energy purely from the separation of the hydrogen from the oxygen? That seems counter-intuitive, as energy input is required for the separation in the first place. In other words, is the released energy from the separation greater than the amount of energy required for the initial separation? :huh:
 
They're describing it as if the separation is releasing energy, I'm sure there's more to it than just that but it doesn't sound like they're burning the hydrogen at all.
 
membrane electrode assembly is that like a mix between electrolosis and just having small holes that only one kind of molecule can go through.
 
Danalys said:
membrane electrode assembly is that like a mix between electrolosis and just having small holes that only one kind of molecule can go through.
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Which makes perfect sense for this type of application. Seems rather absurd that the biggest hurdle people mention in association with the use of hydrogen as a fuel source is the production of the hydrogen itself. It doesn't seem all that complex. :huh:
 
well the principals may be simple and it always easier to reverse engineer the idea rather than have it in the first place, but it's the nitty gritty improvements to get better efficiancy that make or break these ideas.
 
Carcharodon said:
Which makes perfect sense for this type of application. Seems rather absurd that the biggest hurdle people mention in association with the use of hydrogen as a fuel source is the production of the hydrogen itself. It doesn't seem all that complex. :huh:
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The problem is they can't just scale up production and have it be as easy or efficient.
 
Leto Atrides said:
The problem is they can't just scale up production and have it be as easy or efficient.
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Yeah, but this car seems to rely only on its own unit for production. They're making it sound almost entirely self-contained.
 
Carcharodon said:
Yeah, but this car seems to rely only on its own unit for production. They're making it sound almost entirely self-contained.
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When people talk about actually using hydrogen as fuel they're probably talking about fuel cells, which requires someone making a ton of hydrogen for you to cart around in the fuel tank. As far as I can tell, this is a totally different reaction where water is the fuel, (probably a little) hydrogen is one of the byproducts.
 
Leto Atrides said:
When people talk about actually using hydrogen as fuel they're probably talking about fuel cells, which requires someone making a ton of hydrogen for you to cart around in the fuel tank. As far as I can tell, this is a totally different reaction where water is the fuel, (probably a little) hydrogen is one of the byproducts.
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How is the reaction different for the mass production of hydrogen? Is it an acid/metal reaction? I honestly don't know.

Hmmm...now I've gotta do research, damnit.

EDIT: It looks to be a reaction that utilizes platinum...and the rarity of platinum appears to be the primary barrier.
 
That's really cool. I wish them the best of luck for mass production.
 
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