Care to explain the joke?
They are going to kill this man, because his invention will void a trillion dollar industry, and make it seem like an accident by bringing the whole plane down.
Water has too low of potential energy to use as fuel in normal circumstances. The people who say this stuff usually say its patents or a secret method kept secret by car companies and are conspiracy brained.
Realistically probably this originally started as somebody being told about hydrogen fuel cells and people telephoned it into a conspiracy theory.
Realistically probably this originally started as somebody being told about hydrogen fuel cells and people telephoned it into a conspiracy theory.
Realistically it probably started as a scam as, like the “this one weird trick! Doctors hate her!” thing. The premise is simple: learn how to modify your car to run on water instead of petrol (which sounds wonderful - so cheap! So convenient! Imagine if you could just fill up a bucket and dump it into your fuel tank and it’d work!). It sounds intuitively plausible - water is a liquid, petrol is a liquid, car is a machine that turns liquid into vroom - and frankly nobody in the general public knows why water-powered engines violate thermodynamics, only that they do (assuming they do).
And you really need to understand that these scams target the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. The fact that it filters out anyone who applies critical thinking and education is a feature, not a bug.
Big oil won’t let that happen.
All engines end up working on water
You are SOOOOO dead
Unless it’s a steam engine.
Fun fact! It is thermodynamically impossible to make a vehicle that derives its energy from water. You cannot get more energy out of a water molecule than you put into it.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
My car contains a small micro-singularity levitating in a magnetic field. The engine feeds small amounts of matter into it, capturing a sizable fraction of the rest-mass of the infalling matter as usable energy. The fuel I choose to feed the black hole powering my car? Ordinary water.
I have invented the water-powered car.
Only if I’m not allowed to do fusion
That technology is only 10 years away, I hear
That was 30 years ago.
You can heat the water somewhere, make the vehicle use the heat as energy, then swap out the cooled water for fresh hot water after driving 50m
That’s meters, correct?
No, months.
Damn, that’s so crazy. Where do you live? Do you go through deserted alleys often?
Huh?
Well wait a second now, how small can we get hydroelectric dams? Let gravity do the work, sounds easy…/s
You could fuse it into silicon and helium, and produce quite a bit of energy that way.
That’s a boat.
Boats actually sail on water. I think you’re confusing them with the common basilisk
No, it’s actually Jesus in a Flintstone car
Me too. It uses a battery to heat water into pressurized steam.
It’s not very effective.
Boiling water to spin a turbine, everything is Steam Power.
