A Vehicle that runs on Saltwater.

[CTG Labs]

Hi,

I remember watching this live many years ago!  The car breaks down the water onboard with salt and a special substance in it too, in to hydrogen and oxygen.  But there is no burning, it uses a fuel cell to create electricity directly during the re-combining of the elements back in to water through a proton-exchange-membrane, but the substance must be re-added so although you get the water back out, cannot directly split it again   Also the cost of such membranes make the cost far too much to be practical I think...?



Regards,

Dave.

[jadaro2600]

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I think the saltwater car idea is great, but we must consider the highly corrosive nature of chlorine.  The resultant gas from a saline-celled electrolysis chamber can be deadly, not to mention it's ability to decrease the life ecpectancy of your engine by 30-50%, and your time between oil changed by about the same.

I think it's stupid trying to convert an internal combustion engine to run off something guzzling chlorine and hydrogen.  Now, if there were some way to say ...rather than paying to fill-up, you pay to off-load, and the saline cell was just a large electrolytic chamber, and there were recyclable differential metals used..

In any event, running a car off saltwater sounds great, but it won't run for very long, there's an incompatibility between the oils used to lubricate, and the gases used in combustion.  Chlorine will want to react with almost anything it comes into contact with..including the oil.