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A car that runs entirely on water!!

What a wonderful dream!

A dream or a reality? In fact claims of inventing the first “watercar” have been made since the 1970's. But it has never been successfully exhibited in a financially viable way.

The fact is that we are on the edge of a precipice with increasing depletion of fossil fuels leading us to a terrible scenario where nations could fight each other for oil and other natural resources.

President Bush has made a challenge to the American people to begin running cars on hydrogen as soon as possible, and has allocated over one billion dollars for research to find out how to do that.

Experimenters have proved that existing engines in our automobiles can work with water fuel with very little alteration and no need for an external support infrastructure like the one now provided by gas stations, and which would be required by fuel-cell technology.

To understand how this water-fuel systems work, it helps to begin by realizing that ordinary water is actually a battery containing vast amounts of energy. Water is H2O — two parts hydrogen combined with one part oxygen. And, as we all know, hydrogen is an excellent fuel.

A molecule of water contains a vast amount of energy, and has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of energy it takes to break down that molecule. This is an extremely important point, as so many people — even scientists — have not reached a common agreement on this concept. Ultimately if we find an economical means to break down the water molecule, our energy problems will definitely be over.

Our natural environment is facing tremendous problems at the moment, and the most serious of these is that we are rapidly losing our oxygen. The oxygen content of the air is becoming so low that it threatens our very existence in some areas. The normal oxygen content of our air is 21 percent. But in some places it is only a fraction of that! In Tokyo , Japan , for example, the oxygen content of the air has dipped to 6 or 7 percent. If it reaches 5 percent, people will begin to die. Tokyo has even put oxygen disbursement centers on its street corners, so that people can get emergency oxygen if they need it.

Hydrogen is a fuel that is complete in itself. It actually has no need of oxygen from the air to burn, which is an improvement over fossil fuels in saving the oxygen in our air supply. In fact, when hydrogen burns perfectly, nothing at all comes out of the exhaust pipe. If salt and metal alloy are used to create hydrogen, then there will be residues of that in the exhaust, but hydrogen fuel does not contribute pollution in any way to the atmosphere.

Brown's gas: This is the most perfect fuel of all for running our vehicles. Like pure hydrogen, it is made from water, i.e., hydrogen and oxygen, but it burns in the combustion engine so that, depending on the setup, it may actually release oxygen into the atmosphere. In that case, what comes out of the tail pipe is oxygen and water vapor, just as with fuel cells; but the oxygen comes from the water that's being used to create the Brown's gas fuel. So burning Brown's gas as fuel could add oxygen to the air and actually increase the oxygen content of our atmosphere. [Source: http://www.spiritofmaat.com]

Rothman Technologies, Inc., an American company, has a discovered a method of converting water to fuel using electrolysis. This method breaks water down into Brown's gas, which also is a perfect fuel for gasoline engines

Another company, Hydrogen Technologies Applications, has patented a machine which uses an electrical charge to separate the atoms of H2O into HHO, a gas called "Aquygen." which, they claim, can ultimately be used run cars.

This technology is going to end up being in the mainstream eventually, they predict, and then the critics are going to look absolutely foolish.

Many a businessman's idea of developing of a technology that uses water to produce a flammable gas thus providing a solution to high gas prices plaguing the globe, has been denounced as scam by scientists. However it seems that businessmen and amateur entrepreneurs are the ones more interested than scientists in solving the world's fuel crisis.

Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction author who recently passed away, humorously describes the four stages in which scientists react to the development of anything of a revolutionary nature.

1) It's nonsense,

2) It is not important

3) I always said it was a good idea, and

4) I thought of it first

Whatever the critics say the fact is that the technology for a car to run on pure water is on the edge of a breakthrough. Yes that's right. It is happening. Studies and projects, on the verge of success, are going on in the US , Australia, New Zealand, UK and India . We are in a crunch to find alternative fuels.

Anyway whoever finally produces the first practical car that runs purely on water will solve our energy problems once and for all and that person will be remembered in history as a hero.

That hero could be you.

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