A Car That Runs On Air And Water - Is It For Real?
Posted by: Manish in General, Technology, tags: Car That Runs on Air and Water, Genepax review, Reality Of Car That Runs On Water And Air
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A Japanese company named Genepax Co. Ltd. unveiled a prototype car on June 12, 2008 that runs entirely on water and air, with the key technology named as “Water Energy System (WES)” that generates power just by supplying water and air to the fuel and air electrodes, using a proprietary technology called MEA, Membrane Electrode Assembly, a special material that breaks down water into hydrogen and oxygen through a chemical reaction. So, once water is poured into the car’s tank, an energy generator takes hydrogen from the water, releasing electrons that power the car.
In the demonstration, the 300 W system, which supplies water and air with a pump, was mounted in the luggage room of a compact electric vehicle “Reva” and with the 300 W active fuel cell system charging the lead-acid battery, the vehicle was actually driven by the system.
“The car will continue to run as long as you have a bottle of water to top up from time to time”
- Genepax CEO, Kiyoshi Hirasawa
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For this car, a liter of any kind of water, be that it is rain, river, or sea, (or even tea!) is all that you need to get the engine going for about an hour at a speed of 80 km (50 miles), and with oil prices soaring and fuel protests growing all over the world, this prototype almost sounds too good to be true!
So, has this technology come for real to us at this time? Actually, we’ve been hearing these kinds of stories so many times, and the car that runs on water or air has mere been a technological icon. So, are they simply deceiving us through sloppy science or are they for real? Or is it just another attempt to lure investors for a product they know will never work!
We can find various critics and skepticisms online as well:
“This is bullshit.
Whichever way you cut it, they’re either lying or most of modern physics is wrong.
And since physics has produced space travel, computers, worldwide communications, aviation (etc.) and the only thing this company has produced is an advert and no patents or figures I’d go with the former being reliable and the latter being bullshit.
The only way to extract usable energy from water (regardless of what mechanism you use) is to put in slightly more energy than you get out, hence making it slightly less efficient than just connecting the motor to whatever battery or energy source is actually running the car.”
“This is not new or innovative. Some version of this has cropped up dozens of times before. There is nothing to “wait and see”. You cannot get energy out of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen then burning the hydrogen by recombining it with oxygen back into water. This is basic thermodynamics. The process must LOSE energy, not create it.
The energy (if the car runs at all) must be coming from another fuel source (a battery or gasoline engine). The water burning part just wastes energy - this would be LESS fuel efficient than just a regular electric, hybrid, or gasoline car.”
And viewing all the comments, it does seem the person who fairly understands the basics of physics seem to support that the claim in fact is fraudulent and that it is simply not possible and that “You cannot get energy out of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen then burning the hydrogen by recombining it with oxygen back into water. This is basic thermodynamics!”
However, it is also noteworthy that the company in fact is claiming to have “improved” their hydrogen-producing reaction device and their electricity-producing fuel cell. So I guess we have no alternative but to wait and see if Genepax indeed is for real.
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