Cars Running on Water Are All Wet
The Net is sometimes called the Web Of A Thousand Lies, and not without reason.
Just because it’s on the Internet, it doesn’t make it true. And nowhere is this more true than when looking at "Miraculous Systems That Will Run Your Car Off Of Water." Usually put together with some sort of patter about how the Big Oil/Automotive Conglomerates Don’t Want You to Know About This Big Secret.
Let’s put a fork in this one. It’s bull.
What’s happening with those hydrolysis cells is this: You’re using the electricity in your car’s battery to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen, in a low density gaseous form, to run your car off of. You split the water into its component parts, it goes into your engine, gets burned, and boosts your gas mileage.
What it’s really doing is boosting the octane of your gasoline a bit, which will decrease your gas mileage by a small amount, and it’s draining your battery. What charges your battery? You got it – it’s your alternator. So when you trace everything back, what’s happening is that you’re burning gasoline to generate electricity which is used to split water into hydrogen into oxygen, which is then added to your fuel mix to make your car’s gas mileage decrease.
The basic rule of thumb here is that if this did what its proponents claimed, every car manufacturer on the planet would be offering one of these things. They aren’t stupid; they know that a car that could run off of water would sell as fast as they could get them into the showrooms. (Think about the premium they could charge by saying that you never have to buy gasoline again. Think about the CAFÉ requirements…)
On top of that, anyone with even a high school knowledge of chemistry and basic science could tell that this entire setup doesn’t add up. If someone’s promising you more energy out than you think you’re putting in, then you’re probably being suckered somewhere (in this case, it’s the energy cost of cracking water into hydrogen and oxygen from the car’s battery).
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