Jun 19th, 2008 by RJ Menezes
If this is what they say it is than we could be talking about big news. Genepax, a Japanese company, showed Reuters news service its water-powered prototype car. According to the company’s claim, the car can run at speeds up to 80 km/h (49 mph) for an hour on 1 liter of any kind of water. These are impressive claims. Though not yet comparable to the performance of a gas-powered car, it’s a great start.
Reuters reported, “Genepax may well have the solution that consumers are looking for in an era of spiraling gas prices.” The company’s invention reportedly works by extracting hydrogen from the water in the car’s tank, using what Genepax calls its Water Energy System, or WES. The hydrogen then releases electrons that produce the electrical power that the car runs on.
The political punditry site Huffington Post was highly skeptical. “It is actually possible to make a car look like it runs on water…with metal hydrides. These react with water to produce hydrogen,” the Huffington Post story says. “But since these hydrides will deplete with time, they need to be replaced and so they are actually the fuel, not the water. And you can be sure that more energy will go into producing them than will be taken out, making them an energy carrier, just like a battery.”
Um, no guys it’s possible to make cars run on water, period. Water is just two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen a.k.a H20. It can easily be separated and used to power anything. Plus, who cares how it’s powered?!? Anything is better than being powered by oil company profits! You can tell sites like Huffington Post are already scrambling to debunk and discredit this company’s awesome achievements.
Genepax hopes to go into mass production soon with a Japanese manufacturer. Among those plans are a presentation and demonstration in English for the world’s media, to be held soon in Tokyo. Genepax also promises to display its electricity-generation module, prototype generator system.
Hopefully the powers that be will actually let this happen and not shut this company down. One way or another, these types of companies don’t seem to last very long when they start posing a threat to big oil.
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