Quote (rngBird @ Sun, Jan 4 2009, 06:29pm)
h2o cars! Anyone know if this actually works? There are sources for both the possibilty and impossibilty of it so i don't know what to believe:\
i love that you mentioned this.
cars working off water.
basicaly it cant use water but the oxygen and hydrogen making up water.
that leads to- how can we seperate them?? easily done actually.
May take a little thinking to get your mind wrapped around this-
A siphon. When attempting to siphon water you CANNOT syphon lower than something like 34 feet below your highest point in the system. That being because so much vacuum is produced that at that point a siphon stops working because the molecules start breaking up and the gases released from the water you are trying to siphon. If you know how a siphon works then you know that when air is introduced into the system the the siphons prime is broke and the system stops... because of the gases in the system.
Ok so we can make engines that can utilize oxygen/hydrogen but the problem is building a car that could do the process to separate hydrogen and oxygen from the water.
needless to say we wont have cars that are 34 foot high. therein is the problem.
This post was edited by lone500 on Jan 4 2009 03:35pm