Japanese Car Runs Exclusively on Water!
The Japanese company Genepax has unveiled a car that runs exclusively on water. They even have a working prototype that was showed off in front of the press. They claim that using only one liter of water it can run with 80km/h. Their website, genepax.co.jp, is not ready yet with all the details of their technology (in fact, it’s only in a construction phase).
Informations have discovered this far that their system runs on an electric motor powered by a water-splitting MEA membrane. Further details are not disclosed.
The video presented below is the first proof that their car works:
Jun 15th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Water and snake oil?
I keep seeing these H2O cars and devices and gimmicks. The one thing they all have in common is a lack of independent confirmation by a reputable lab.
Someday, we may have a device that violates the laws of physics. But not today.
Jun 15th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Oh yee of little faith that sit a criticize while others do the work for you. Critics are a dime a dozen.
Jun 17th, 2008 at 6:33 am
If you have faith the size of a mustard seed you don’t even need a car to get from here to there.
Jun 17th, 2008 at 7:23 am
yeah, that’s right:).
Can you do that?
Jun 18th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Great concept, I hope it is reality and I hope the production will begin quickly. Also with this technology I assume the price tag will be steep, how about some huge tax breaks so the average joe can purchase one! umm… why is jason vorhees riding shotgun!
Jun 20th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Thank you Genepax. I think that we will saved from the rich, exploitative oil companies. Watch your backs. Too many people will plot against you to prevent you from furthering your invention.
It sounds as if you have created industry-destroying technology.
Bravo
Jun 21st, 2008 at 7:24 am
“When we find out how to burn water, and the gasoline car is gone… we’ll all be drinking that free bubble-up, and eatin’ that rainbow stew.” –Merle Haggard, “Rainbow Stew”
Jun 22nd, 2008 at 1:14 am
Why is this only on Reuters? Keep forwarding this to news networks.
Jun 22nd, 2008 at 5:21 am
Good for them, i would buy one. american government won’t like it and they will try to find ways to disaprove it, because they will lose money. meaning the big oil companies can’t rip off the american people. people need to wake up in this country and start supporting cars and research like this.
Jun 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 am
This is a viable technology. The concept is it would be a Hydrogen based car. They’re using water as the fuel to extract the Hydrogen ( splitting the H and 2O from H20 ) rather than just filling the car with Hydrogen fuel. Basically, a Hydrogen Fuel Cell car, that get’s it’s Hydrogen fuel by splitting water.
I’ve heard from people working on a similar project for an American manufacturer.
Jun 24th, 2008 at 10:35 am
As noted above, a hydrogen fuel cell car already does this. They just convert the water to hydrogen beforehand. A hydrogen car is really just a water car already. But, you need water and electricity to make hydrogen. So, my question is, what is providing the electricity in this car? There must be a battery. Sure, it can probably be partially recharged through the motion of driving (like all car batteries are), but I think this car would violate the laws of physics that prevent a perpetual motion machine if this car never had to charge up on the electricity used to create the hydrogen from water. In short, I think this violates some rule of physics, but not from the use of water as an input, but rather from the lack of electricity as an input (at least in this article).
The principle would be:
Water + Electricity => hydrogen => More electricity.
There is no way it would work without electricity as an input. And remember, most of the time, we get our electricity by burning coal or natural gas. Its not really the great escape from fossil fuels that most people think.
Jun 26th, 2008 at 6:13 am
If it does draw more electricity than it can generate, then it could be a plug-in (recharge battery at night). Would that answer the physics question above? So a plug-in that runs on water. That might be a hit in the market. I’m already looking for a plug-in hybrid.
Jun 28th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
This will mean that the arabs will slither back into desert,never
to be heard from again.
Jul 1st, 2008 at 8:37 am
If this is a hoax, someone has invested a lot of money in perpetrating this hoax. I’m inclined to believe it is for real. I’d like to know how they are extracting the hydrogen or if they found a way to utilize it to make electricity without actually extracting the hydrogen.
Sound too good to be true and it may well be but it is impressive!
Just because they have not devised a way to extract hydrogen without electricity doesn’t mean there is not a way.
Jul 3rd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Nylund, it’s rare that someone actually tells it like it is. Often, there is a debate, and people just argue “Yes, yes!” “No, no!” without any equation, such as the one you provided. Yes, it would only be a hydrogen car. Energy still needs to be fed into it. Thanks for spotting that!
Jul 20th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Why do all the naysayers spout so much vehement denial of the possiblity that this technology may eventually exist? Do nuclear bombs use more energy than they make??? No, they take advantage of stored energy. I think this is the case with this water fuel scenario. I don’t pretend to understand all of the details YET but ALL of the scientists said that nuclear fission was a pipe dream once upon a time, too… remember that today’s science fiction is often tomorrow’s science fact…
Jul 21st, 2008 at 7:57 am
Toyota uses regenerative braking to generate
electricity for battery recharging.
Why can’t others use it to extract hydrogen?
It has been on my drawing board for 2 years,
as a way to separate 2 parts Hydrogen from
1 part Oxygen.
I’ve even seen an invention that can
generate electicity and hydrogen, by
simply droping a weight (attached to pulleys)
from a tree branch.
Start preparing for PRODUCTION.
’cause if these guys don’t have it yet…
I soon will.
Next challenge?
How to convert existing vehicles?
Jul 21st, 2008 at 10:10 am
Hi Bill,
Why don’t you show us your invention..? We’ll more than pleased to see it!
Ovidiu.
Jul 29th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I wonder if this technology can be scaled up to generate electricity? It would be a serious advantage here in Africa.
If it can run a car for one hour at 80KM per hour it can probably
run my household electricity on the water I save from my roof when it rains.
Aug 23rd, 2008 at 4:19 am
This technology would change the power structure of our world and none of the current people in power will use their considerable to hide this technology from the masses. I don’t care if it is government or corporate power none of them want to see this. Imagine if we could cut the wires to our house and power it with water, and think of all the gas stations abandoned. This could cause great upheaval in our world but in the end we will all be better for it, even the current power brokers even if they don’t believe it. The first post was made by a gas station owner or and oil executive. Pay no attention to those people who say heavier than air flight is impossible, because we intuitively know it is.
Aug 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Can you lift a car? Can you lift a car with a screw-jack? I do not posses the physical strength to lift a car,but with a device providing a mechanical advantage I can. A nuclear bomb takes about 5.5 kilos of enriched uranium and slams it together at lightspeed to destroy the subatomic bonds of the atoms and release the resultant energy,enough to destroy a city. The law of physics so often quoted says you cannot get more energy out of something than you put in. When you are talking about chemistry and electrochemical reactions I am not so sure that applies? What about
explosives or gunpowder and bullets.What about baking soda and vinegar? I think in the near future if not already, someone will find a way to tease the seperation of H2O and do it in a method that economically provides adequate fuel for driving a standard internal combustion engine in a self contained package.The trick is making every part of the car ultra efficient and using some form of magnetic superconducting bearings to eliminate frictional losses. I am sure it is posssible, but beyond the financial resources of most commmon people and therfore there is no incentive to produce it.If you are rich enough to afford you do not need.
Sep 14th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I’ve read ALL of your comments. Sat Sept 13, I spent hours watching the devastation of the East Texas coast. OIL refinaries that can no longer produce. Platforms in the Gulf that can no longer pump. Ports that can no longer receive tankers until the channels are dredged. Gas stations that must have their tanks cleaned and pumps replaced.
Does the Japanese H2O car exist? YES and works quite well, but at present there is NO WAY for Governments to collect ROAD TAXES on water.
The technology has existed in present form with patents granted for almost 30 years, but government officials do what politicians tell them to do.
Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, the man who is in charge of designing and building the next Space Shuttle, is Chairman of Tesla Motors. They with help from Lotus, have developed a 0 to 60 in 3.9 seconds $100,000 electric roadster. There are NO harmful emissions, but the State of California will NOT let it go into production. California says the emissions are so low they have no way to test it to see if it meets their standards. NO APPROVAL is coming. Road Taxes is the big hold-up, that only petroleum companies and politicians control.
Water and Gas conversions have been done on thousands of vehicles worldwide over the last 15 plus years. Semi-tractors getting 26% improvement in fuel mileage. Stockcars, delivery trucks, SUVs and everyday junkers getting DOUBLE their previous gas mileage. This means ROAD TAXES would be cut in half.
I keep reading about Perpetual Motion Generators, PMGs have existed for at least since 1966. The inventor lived in AZ and tripped and broke his neck in broard daylight, walking from his garage to his house. The machine had vanished, NEVER existed. Early 1980’s, another inventor demonstrated his generator in Washington DC. The Chief Electrical Engineer for the TVA, inspected and verified the machine was working as stated. Senator Ted Kennedy was present at the hearing and throwed a FIT. Said the man should be charged with treason and the TVA engineer should be fired. Back home, the TVA engineer was fired and funding was cut to several TVA installations. Since the late 1980’s, Edison Electric of Canada has built a 40′ semi-trailer, 1 Mega-Watt version of this design. They belong to FEMA and anyone else who has the money to buy them. NO FUEL needed, just a car battery to get the magnetic generator started. Currently, there is a large number being used by FEMA in South LA and now on the Texas coast.
In the 1980’s, a large paper recycling company built a Totally self-sufficient plant. The only public utillity they purchased was water. They had an Open House, attended by the Governor and other officials. Proudly, they demonstrated all of their GREEN features, including the Edison Generator parked out back. The Governor wanted to talk to the Billionaire CEO of the company, engineer and Board of Directors. “Boys, we can’t allow you to damage the economy of the State which depends on Coal Mining. You will have to build a coal-fired Generating Plant, or we’ll have to find ways to shut you down.” Since about 1990, they have a coal-fired Generating Plant, with several Edison PMGs hooked into the Grid. It’s a profitable arrangement and very few no any different.
Milk, bread, vitamins and GASOLINE prices are ALL going Higher at Wal-Mart.