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Is this just news to me???

#1 Unread post 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??


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#2 Unread post by jonnythan »

It's BS.

No worries.
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#3 Unread post 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.
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#4 Unread post 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.
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I highly doubt this, maybe if he seperated the Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms inside the engine before combustion
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#6 Unread post 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.
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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.
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YOU ALL WORK FOR OIL COMPANIES! THIS IS REAL! SAVE THE ENVIROMENT AND NOT YOUR SALARIES... YA JERKS!
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I've used water as car fuel for years without any problems.
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#10 Unread post 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
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