What is a Water-Fueled Car
A motor vehicle in which the fuel is water without any other energy output is called a water-fuelled car. The fuel in water-fuelled cars is hydrogen, from the compound of water. This type of vehicle is not a steam engine due to using the hydrogen as energy not steam.
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.
Because water is a waste product, it is hard to convert it into fuel. Petrol (gas), wood or coal converts fuel into a substance with less energy. Energy is converted by being released when unstable bonds are converted into stable bonds.
Being a very stable bond already, it is hard to convert it. This stability allows water to resist most reactions. In order for water to be converted into fuel, a high-energy compound must be added to it.
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.
Electrolysis is the separation of the bond of water when a current of power is passed through the water. The energy source is the hydrogen that is taken from the compound of two molecules of hydrogen and one of oxygen to make the water. It takes a lot of power to separate this very strong bond.
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.
In Japan, there is an invention that could quite possibly be a true water fuelled car, but it still hasn’t received its patent. An invention must receive a patent to be marketed. A patent also saves a company from being copied by other companies.
With the Japanese company trying so hard to get their patent, it is possible that they have finally found a way to use the abundant resource of water for fuel. If this is the case, then the millions around the world who have been hurt by the rise of the price of petrol can breathe a little more easily. In the not so distant future, we will have 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.
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