What is a Water-Fueled Car
A water-fuelled car is a motor vehicle in which water is the fuel without any other energy output. Hydrogen, from the compound of water, is the fuel in water-fuelled cars. Using the hydrogen for fuel does not make this type of vehicle a steam engine.
Wood or coal is burned to heat up the water in a steam engine. The steam is that which moves the engine due to it being heated. This process makes the coal or wood the fuel source not the water.
It is hard to convert water into fuel because it is a waste product. A substance with less energy must be made, as such with petrol (gas), wood or coal. When the substance with less energy is made, the unstable bonds convert into stable bonds.
It is hard to convert water because it is already a very stable bond. Water resists most reactions due to its stability. A high-energy compound must be added for water to be converted into energy.
Adding calcium carbide to water makes a fuel called acetylene. In this stance, the fuel is the calcium carbine not the actual water. The only real way to make water a fuel is by electrolysis.
A current of power is sent through the water to separate the bonds; this is electrolysis. Two molecules of hydrogen and one of oxygen make water where the hydrogen molecules are the energy source. To separate this bond, it takes a lot of power.
It is not completely considered a water-fuelled engine because this type of engine needs a battery to be able to convert the water into energy by electrolysis. An efficiency of 50-70% is the conversion of hydrogen. The vehicle does not stay moving very long because using that much energy from the battery does not allow it to last very long.
The first and second laws of thermodynamics have restricted many inventors in building a proper water fuelled car. Many vehicles that would have been classified as water-fuelled cars, if not for these two laws, have been classified as perpetual motion machines instead. Therefore, a proper and successful water-fuelled car has yet to be invented.
A true water-fuelled car could possibly be an invention in Japan this year, but it has yet to receive its patent. An invention must have a patent in order to be proved of good quality and marketed. A company gets a patent in order to keep from being copied.
With the intent to get a patent, it is possible that a way to use the abundant resource of water for fuel has truly been found. We, who have been hurt by the rise in the price of petrol, will be able to breathe a little easier if this is true. In the not so distant future, a line of water-fuelled cars will produce a cleaner and cheaper way to get around.
The secret to the Japanese car has not been leaked to other manufacturers yet. They are keeping their invention strictly to themselves. However, they do believe that they will have it patented and ready within the next ten years.
