Of course, something is amiss. No external input, runs on water, exhausts water as waste... That equation don't jive. They don't proclaim an electrolysis mechanism. Rather, they mention some type of metal reaction. I'm gonna go and guess that there is an oxidation going on freeing up the hydrogen. My bet is they're using lithium. After a while, you're gonna have to replace the lithium. The lithium metal is where the energy is coming from, no the water.
Also, 300W motor is not enough to power a car. That's only 0.4 HP. Shady, shady, shady.
> The lithium metal is where the energy is coming from, no the water.
Exactly. Some people just need to endlessly repeat to themselves "water is not a fuel" until perhaps one day it will sink in. The other thing you hear is "this membrane works like a catalyst that breaks down the water." The only problem is that a catalyst provides an alternate lower energy path from a high energy state to a low energy state. No catalyst I've ever heard of takes you the other way, unless you call some form of energy a catalyst.
Another way is gallium-aluminum pellets (see Jerry Woodall's work). Same result, though ... the pellets are oxidized and, once consumed, need to be exchanged for fresh ones and energy used to recycle the oxidized pellets back into fresh ones.
Although energy is thus consumed, this is a case of hoping that centralized energy production and consumption can be cleaner and more efficient than having to transmit energy over great distances or generate it locally. Another favorable argument is that transferring water and occasionally swapping out a tank of pellets is quicker than a multi-hour battery recharge.
you are one of the few intelligent posters here. I can't believe how many people think that this is real. "as long as you have a bottle of water, it will run", wtf. It never really hit me the dire state of education, until reading these replies. What's worse, is that 15-25% of the posts here are about the looks of the car, ungh.
I'm with Ken, this is just not right. If you follow believe their claims you will be violating entropy. Typically, this is not a practical thing to do.
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Of course, something is amiss. No external input, runs on water, exhausts water as waste... That equation don't jive. They don't proclaim an electrolysis mechanism. Rather, they mention some type of metal reaction. I'm gonna go and guess that there is an oxidation going on freeing up the hydrogen. My bet is they're using lithium. After a while, you're gonna have to replace the lithium. The lithium metal is where the energy is coming from, no the water.
Also, 300W motor is not enough to power a car. That's only 0.4 HP. Shady, shady, shady.
"no the water" = "not the water"
sorries
They could also be using magnesium water-activated batteries like those found in buoys.
> The lithium metal is where the energy is coming from, no the water.
Exactly. Some people just need to endlessly repeat to themselves "water is not a fuel" until perhaps one day it will sink in. The other thing you hear is "this membrane works like a catalyst that breaks down the water." The only problem is that a catalyst provides an alternate lower energy path from a high energy state to a low energy state. No catalyst I've ever heard of takes you the other way, unless you call some form of energy a catalyst.
Another way is gallium-aluminum pellets (see Jerry Woodall's work). Same result, though ... the pellets are oxidized and, once consumed, need to be exchanged for fresh ones and energy used to recycle the oxidized pellets back into fresh ones.
Although energy is thus consumed, this is a case of hoping that centralized energy production and consumption can be cleaner and more efficient than having to transmit energy over great distances or generate it locally. Another favorable argument is that transferring water and occasionally swapping out a tank of pellets is quicker than a multi-hour battery recharge.
you are one of the few intelligent posters here. I can't believe how many people think that this is real. "as long as you have a bottle of water, it will run", wtf. It never really hit me the dire state of education, until reading these replies. What's worse, is that 15-25% of the posts here are about the looks of the car, ungh.
maybe so. still, SUCK IT, big oil!
I'm with Ken, this is just not right. If you follow believe their claims you will be violating entropy. Typically, this is not a practical thing to do.