A Water-Powered World

Call me a skeptic.

• If his car could run entirely on water, WHY make it a gasoline/water hybrid?

• The torch video was VERY misleading. You heard him say that he creates the gas using electrolysis (using electricity). The FUEL (energy source) is the electricity. The water is converted to HHO gas (WHAT THE HECK IS THAT? Steam?). It just isn’t clear what he’s doing.

• My guess is that he’s deluded. He probably believes what he claims, but I’m extremely skeptical.

I agree. It’s really sounding like a perpetual motion machine to me.

You’re right–it isn’t entirely clear as to what he’s doing. That’s not, however, his fault; it’s the fault of the news report you’re watching. It isn’t as though a local news segment is going to explain any real science. This guy’s company is for real, though, but you have to look further to see what’s really happening.

He’s being honest about what his company does. He’s very clear that it takes electricity to make the water useful for his machine. That electricity does not come from the water, but we don’t know how much (or how little) electricity it takes to change the water.

Think about his original purpose–replacing acetylene as an industrial gas. His method is safer, and it’s possibly cleaner (depending on how much electricity it takes and where that energy is generated). Things are hazed over a lot (by the reporter) when it comes to the cars. None of that process is explained, except to say that it runs off gas and water. I would guess the gas is used to generate electricity, and the resulting gas from water is what’s used in the engine’s cylinders.

I’m no chemist or physicist, but his product sounds legitimate.

His company’s site (note that his product can be purchased now–this isn’t a prototype): Hydrogen Technology Applications

I’m sticking with my original belief that the guy is deluded. You’re right that local newscasts generally do not do even a slightly good job with science. HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean that there is always real science going on behind the scenes.

Aquygen™ Gas does not follow the fundamental PVT law for gases.

That’s from the science page of the guy’s website. Well, from http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/IdealGasLaw.html We see that the ideal gas law is something that many common gases approximate at standard temperature and pressure. The way this is phrased, it appears that this is not an absolutle law after all. Hmmm …. maybe when a vapor is at a temperature below its boiling point the law doesn’t hold. This would explain this little mystery.

Still, to be fair to this guy, he did get a paper published http://hytechapps.com/aquygen/international_journal.pdf

Nonetheless, I remain STRONGLY skeptical and will be extremely surprised if we ever see an engine that produces more energy from water than the electricity needed to produce the Aquygen Gas (whatever that is).