Run Your Car By Water

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  1. nanSTA

    nanSTA Senior Member

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    I'm not sure about that site, doesn't really look legit.

    Although, I did see this recently..

    http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=84561

    I wouldn't invest in either company because the government would probably just have them shut down. This would be too drastic for our economy to handle because of the cost of gas and all of the vehicles in the market.

    This tech has been around for a while but oddly enough is not being funded? :huh:
     
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    xlink GR's Tech Enthusiast

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    hydrogen fuel cells...

    nothing new, but not perfect
     
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    I doubt the legality of this in the UK as water/hydrogen isn't taxable
     
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    Yeah I noticed ads for this around various sites.. Looks interesting but the government would never let it.
     
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    I woke up and saw this thread.

    Now my whole day will be miserable, thanks Nansta.

    Words cannot express my anger right now!

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    That's exactly what I was thinking. The few people that know about them will embrace them, but the government will eventually shut it down. It's a bit sad, honestly. Hydrogen fuel cells are so far off, yet the EV1s could have already solved most of our gas problems.
     
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    Turn away from oil and face towards water. It's replacing one limited resource with another.

    Pretty stupid in my opinion.
     
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    Well I'll thank god you read this thread.

    BTW, i read up more on this, and it doesn't actually run on water, it just uses water to get more from your gas.

    When you drive your car you don't use 100% of the gas, roughly 70-80%.

    Using water, I Guess, you use 94%.
     
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    Yes, but pollution reduces...less CO<sub>2</sub>...Less global warming.

    >>More info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-fuelled_car
     
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    I would hardly compare water, the thing that makes up a vast majority of the planet, to oil in terms of limited resources.
     
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    http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monit...rticle10866.htm

    Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

    Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

    No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

    A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

    Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

    Let's hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans -- and most of the crops and animals we depend on -- prefer a temperature closer to 70.

    Historically, the warm periods such as the Medi------ Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

    Update 2/27: The graph for HadCRUT (above), as well as the linked graphs for RSS and UAH are generated month-to-month; the temperature declines span a full 12 months of data. The linked GISS graph was graphed for the months of January only, due to a limitation in the plotting program. Anthony Watts, who kindly provided the graphics, otherwise has no connection with the column. The views and comments are those of the author only.
     

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