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Is this just news to me???
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:17 am
by dr_bar
A motorcycle powered by water!!! I see that this clip is almost a year old already, has anyone seen or heard anything about it??
Warning: this is a 16 minute long video...
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid= ... 9814306652
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:35 am
by jonnythan
It's BS.
No worries.
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:51 am
by jonnythan
Pay attention to what happens around 10 minutes in.
Emissions tests of the engine confirm that CO and CO2 are being emitted out of the tailpipe in pretty much the exact numbers you'd expect from a gasoline engine.
The "inventor" tried to explain it away as oil mixing with the water or whatever, but that doesn't even make sense.
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:17 am
by flynrider
Same story, different decade. Whenever oil prices are up, you will get backyard inventors that come up with engines that run on water and 200 mpg carbs. These guys popped up fairly frequently in the 70s and early 80s.
I agree with Jonnythan. The emissions profile is that of an engine burning a hydrocarbon fuel. The percentages don't support the claim that it's just lubricating oil from the cylinder walls.
What this guy has achieved is a way to hide his gasoline supply. Probably in the tubular frame.
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:08 pm
by Custom
I highly doubt this, maybe if he seperated the Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms inside the engine before combustion
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:44 pm
by jonnythan
Custom wrote:I highly doubt this, maybe if he seperated the Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms inside the engine before combustion
Let's say he did this, and he has some mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gas shooting into the cylinders.
Then what? Ignite it?
It physically takes more energy to separate the O2 and H2 than you get back by burning it.
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:53 am
by CNF2002
You didn't see the box that made the water into the superfuel? This is almost as amazing as that time machine for sale on ebay.
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:52 am
by storysunfolding
YOU ALL WORK FOR OIL COMPANIES! THIS IS REAL! SAVE THE ENVIROMENT AND NOT YOUR SALARIES... YA JERKS!
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:15 am
by CNF2002
I've used water as car fuel for years without any problems.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:36 am
by Nibblet99
Yeap, can't beat good ole water thats been fractionally distilled from crude oil... although it did seem unusual to me that molecules made entirely from hydrogen and oxygen can suddenly produce emissions containing carbon... especially in quantity, E=MC2 means that would take a "poo poo" load of energy to do, if it were possible