Not much of a diary, just posting a link to a demonstration of a car unveiled in Japan today that runs solely on water.
http://gizmodo.com/...
Running a car on water has been the holy grail for car manufacturers for some time now, but it appears that a Japanese company named Genepax may have pulled ahead of the competition with a prototype vehicle that runs entirely on water and air. Their new "Water Energy System (WES)," generates power by supplying water and air to the fuel and air electrodes using a proprietary technology called the Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA). The secret behind MEA is a special material that is capable of breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen through a chemical reaction.
Update: Some in the comments said it had to run on seawater. Well. It does. A different link.
http://www.reddit.com/...
Genepax unveiled the car in the western city of Osaka on Thursday, saying that a liter (2.1 pints) of any kind of water -- rain, river or sea -- was all you needed to get the engine going for about an hour at a speed of 80 km (50 miles).
Also some in the comments have suggested you can't burn enough HHO to run
the car, but they don't say burn. They don't specify exactly how it creates electrical energy at all. Obviously a novel process is being implied here.
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Once the water is poured into the tank at the back of the car, the a generator breaks it down and uses it to create electrical power, TV Tokyo said.
Update II: Some in the comments are saying no serious news orgs are reporting this. How about Reuters?
http://in.reuters.com/...
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Tired of petrol prices rising daily at the pump? A Japanese company has invented an electric-powered, and environmentally friendly, car that it says runs solely on water.