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Source: Reuters (http://www.reuters.com)Abstract: "Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water."
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Water-fuel car unveiled in Japan
(01:21) Report
by Michelle Carlile-Alkhouri
from Reuters, http://www.reuters.com
Jun. 13 - Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water.
The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car's tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it.
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I am just going to throw the laws of thermodynamics at this. First Law, you can't destroy or create energy (or mass, but that is in relativistic laws), only transform it from one form to another. Also, you can't have perfect transmission of energy from one form to another. There will always losses due to the fact that we do not live in Donald Duck's Mathmagicland. As such, a system will always be losing energy into heat (generating entropy) and this energy cannot be consumed again without again incurring losses. The only way to split the water is with electricity or chemicals. The electricity required would be better used to power the car and any chemical used would use itself up. Even funnier is there is no proof anywhere to be found about this system. The company's site is coming soon to a language you speak, so there is again nothing to be found.
Unless they are working with some very unstable and/or exotic compounds that I, and the rest of the world, have never heard of, I call bullshit.