Japanese watercar

[Farrah Day]

Well Harti, yes I would say it was somewhat misleading as the emphasis was on the water which is probably why you had your initial doubts, but I guess people will read into it what they to.

You have to agree it sounds a lot more impressive to say it runs on water, than it runs on hydrogen! 

The marketing and hype will always emphasise the water to generate the interest. Add to this gullible, uneducated reporters and you can quickly build up a tremendous amount of free publicity for something that, in all truth, is nothing extraordinary. 

I think that water could be fed into a standard hydrocarbon ICE's in the correct proportions to enhance efficiency, just like they did in WW2 aircraft engines.  Have you ever noticed how you car seems more responsive on cold misty days when there is a lot of moisture in the air?  I've also heard of people with blown head gaskets doing far more miles to the gallon with coolant leaking into their cylinders.

Interesting, but nothing to get over-excited about!

[hartiberlin]

Maybe this is a good idea
to generate hydrogen or HHO on demand
and also use steam generated with it to
go into the ICE explosion chamber, so
then the steam will be heated by the HHO explosion
and will be used to propell the piston even more...
making the efficiency even higher...

Then you need to keep just the HHO electrolzer
at boiling temperates so that enough steam
will come out with the HHO gas...

Regards, Stefan.

[Fascinated_Oak]

Wouldn't it be better if you let liquid water, HHO and air get in?

HHO would cause rise in temperature expanding the air and boiling the water into steam instantaneously

http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060227/FREE/302270007/1023/THISWEEKSISSUE

[Equalizer]

Very interesting indeed.

Somewhat similar to what United Nuclear is pushing.
However United seems to boast running on raw compressed Hydrogen.
They also emphasize that high compression / turbo charged engines are a no go with the
future conversion kits. Also diesel engines because of their high compression.

http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/

[enki09]

Understand that the internal combustion engine is essentially a steam engine. When you burn a hydrocarbon the two main byproducts are CO2 gas and superheated steam. It is the expansion of this steam that drives your engine. Adding water gives you more steam but cooler steam so there is some question as to which would be better since the expansive force of steam decreases rapidly with lower temperature. Although adding some water to an engine does reduce pre-ignition problems.