They were a success! 1806:
Francois Isaac de Rivaz (born in Paris, December 19, 1752; Died in Sion, July 30, 1828) was a Swiss inventor, credited with inventing and constructing the first successful internal combustion engine in 1806. The engine was powered by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen gas was contained in a balloon and the ignition was an electrical Volta starter. A year later, Francois Isaac de Rivaz built one of the first automobiles – of course, powered by his new engine.
NOTE: Gasoline was not used for internal combustion engines until 1870.
https://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?page_id=819
Video of a water powered car from 1974 https://www.bitchute.com/video/VTbTVVWbwMuq/
Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen takes more energy than you get from recombining them.
No free energy at all. Energy has to be added from somewhere else to keep sucha vehicle running.
Correct. The main issue is the fact that, within the H2O molecule, the oxygen shares electrons with the hydrogen atoms. In order to split them, you need to supply an electron to each of the hydrogen atoms... Thus Faraday's Law.
That being said, I won't discount alternative methods of producing hydrogen, but electrolyzing water would not be it.
Isn’t the guy who created the water powered car “dead”? Thought I saw something about this before where the someone stole the prototype and anything related to it
Equinox 2 Stanley Meyer, there is a part 1& even a 3rd i believe. This man designed, created, & patent a water powered vehicle. Supposedly poisoned dead & patent dissapeared/ changed..??
https://youtu.be/rvJ3GThSKwE
Ok so who has the designs? How do I retrofit my old Nissan?
Awesome post, thanks! This has been an off and on again interest of mine for a number of years now, and haven't seen either of your links before, the 1st one is great, going to watch the 2nd one in a bit.
Edit: Vid was only 1:29, took the time to watch lol. Pretty cool, while the idea seems revolutionary today, it must have really seemed such back then.
Hopefully this gets developed more, great alternative to e-cars, and maybe even able to convert standard cars.
I like to watch Top Gear, and electric cars are not 'there' yet. They always run out of power quickly and take forever to recharge.
H2O is plentiful, cheap and pollution free. Big Oil blocked this for $$$.
Hammond crashes all of them to
Clarkson: "Hammond, you IDIOT!"
Bingo on Big Oil, spot on.
With The Great Awakening revealing many things to humanity, I'm really hoping alternative technologies will be as well. If they haven't been furthered unbeknownst to us, then breaking up the Big companies would allow for development.
how many inventions have been kept fom us so their profit engines would keep humming?
I believe many innovators have been murdered or bought out to suppress better technology and eep old products (oil) bringing in the money to the 1% reptiles.
About 2 years ago, a Chinese teen in California found a way to harness the UV light, not just sunlight to create energy. Never heard about it again.
when i was in college, some of the grad students modified a gas engine and got a prototype to go hundreds of miles on a single gallon of gas.
must have been bad for the environment right?
There's not nearly enough hydrogen in water to replace hydrocarbons, just look at how much less energy you get burning Ethanol (a C2 hydrocarbon) vs Gasoline (a mix of C8/C9/C10s). The energy density of H2 gas is pathetic so it needs to be stored as a liquid at very high pressure and low temperature to compare.
Water is the "ashes" of burning hydrogen, so saying there is a car that runs on hydrogen from water is... Well... No. It absolutely doesn't, unless there a hydrogen fusion reactorin there.
The link you linked is actually about a car that would be accurately described as powered by calcium carbide. And here's where you put the energy in:
Stanly wasn't burning Hy or anything else. His patient hid the true mechanism well. Folks still scratching their heads.
I hate to be a party pooper, but that claim is so huge it would be equally plausible to say it runs on magical unicorn farts... He was likely mistaken about where the energy was coming from or deliberately lying for some reason. Possibly to hide the real mechanism?
Don't be. Unicorn farts might be an easier sell than the truth of it. Fewer health risks as well. That said, Stan's engine wasn't burning anything...not even imaginary stuff. No oxidation. No chemical reaction. Most of his effort was smoke and mirrors to hide his discovery/invention. There were a few clues. In the end,...rest in peace Stanley.