Water Power!

[Stymie]

Not sure if anyone seen this.

An other great way to use water.

I seen a few diff ppl use.

Water to run cars.

But sadly, I have not heard anything much from the others.

In some time

[ttogreh]

Uh...

Sorry to break it to you... but it don't work.

It's snake oil. Sure, you can split water to produce hydrogen and oxygen... but where do you get the energy to do that?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

ttogreh - you should look into the 6-stroke water engines. It's a hybrid... but they produce far more power than any other hybrid and have fantastic estimated mileage ratings. No, they are not a "fix" and yes they still use a fossil fuel to run.

The first 4 strokes operate just like a normal gas or diesel engine. A big problem with those engines is most of the power they create is lost as heat. In comes stroke 5.. where water is shot into the cyclinder... bursting into steam and giving the engine a second "power stroke" with just as much power in it as the first power stroke.

the conversation adds about 1/3 to 2/3 more horsepower to the engine and boots mileage by about the same amount.

As I said, it's not a fix tot he problem. It is a step in the right direction because it is something we can do right now to cut our dependency on fossil fuels.

[ttogreh]

Steam power is on orders of magnitude more believable to me than cracked water power, Gaf.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

"Water power" is real, its just not what your assuming they mean by it ttogreh . The practicality of a "real" water engine as you mention is not currently practical, but that's not whats meant here.

This is real currently in-use "water power".

I did though, at first glance when i read about this awhile back think "oh wow, steam.. never heard of that before!" and then... "yeah, OK right WATER as the fuel source? Pfft, please." Unfortunately they aren't referring to either in the way we'd traditionally think of them.

[Oh_My_Goth]

THAT'S PERTY AWESOME!!!!!

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Radio frequency's tuned correctly and aimed at salt water.. cause it (the salt water) to burn. Penn state was able to get the fire up to 3000F.

How Stuff works

[ttogreh]

Sure... but how much energy was used to produce the radio frequency?

The first law of thermodynamics, I haz it...

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I think he was just pointing out the tech, not that it was currently practical.