Are water powered cars fact or fiction? If you have been perusing the internet, you have most likely seen advertisements to power your car using water and have wondered whether water powered cars are fact or fiction. You are not alone. Many people like the idea of using water instead of gasoline to fuel their cars. Unfortunately, it has not yet come to pass that water alone can replace gasoline as fuel.
That does not mean that water powered cars are out, however. New developments, including a patented invention to power a car solely on hydrogen power as well as a contract between the US Army and a technical firm to perfect the fuel cells needed to power cars using water have made the news in recent years and the country is ready, willing and able to accept alternate fuels. Water power cars – fact or fiction? You decide.
First of all, water powered cars are not a new technology. Inventors and engineers have toyed with the idea of using water as a fuel for cars as far back as the 1930s. When you consider how abundant water is and how much easier it would be to purify than oil for gasoline, not to mention the positive impact on the environment that water power would have, the idea of using water to power cars is something that most people would find desirable.
Many skeptics say that there is no way that a safe level of hydrogen and oxygen can be used to power cars and that it defies mathematical logic. But others have proved them wrong, inventing cars and systems that have run on water alone. Auto makers today are jumping on the bandwagon and creating hybrid vehicles that run with both gasoline and water so that they get more miles per gallon. Several major auto makers have introduced such cars to the public. Other forms of energy that have been used in hybrids are electric and solar power.
The concept of using the fuel cell to create a hydrogen and oxygen mix has been around since the 1990s. While some decry this as a fraud, others point to the fact that shortly after a US inventor named Danny Klein patented a special fuel cell that was able to create powerful hydrogen oxygen gas that ran a car that was able to beat a Lamborghini, the Army entered into a contract with a large technical firm to perfect such a cell for their vehicles. It does not appear that water based cars are fiction.
There are problems that need to be ironed out when it comes to water based cars, however. The safety factor is one. The performance of the vehicle is another. Getting hydrogen from power plants is also a factor when it comes to introducing water based cars to the public. However, many in both the auto industry and scientific community, not to mention the environmentalists, are optimistic that water based cars are the answer that many are looking for.
Water based cars – fact or fiction? They are a fact. They just have not yet been perfected to the point that they will perform safely and to the satisfaction that the public is used to. But the future of water based cars is wide open.
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