stitch626 wrote:Ok. To clariffy. The Genepex car runs off of water (not a fuel cell). You pour water into the tank, the hydrogen and oxygen of the water molecules are separated in the engine. Somewhere in the process (Genepex has not released all of their data, due to the pending patent) electrons are stripped from the hydrogen (the hydrogen is not used as fuel) then the hydrogen and oxygen are released into the atmosphere. There is no combustion, there are no fuel cells. It is a tank that you pour water into and make the car go.
Remember, electricity=moving electrons. And electrons are very easy to remove from atoms, just rub your hair against a balloon for a simple example.
The only reason the car needs a battery is to start the engine.
And the reason this is better than a pure electric car is that an electric car will run out of electricity and you may not be near an outlet. For this car, just keep a couple gallons of water in your trunk. Remember is can go 200 miles on one gallon of water. Easy to fill up if your tank is empty.
Oxygen and
protons are released? That's what you get when you take the electron from a hydrogen atom. Or does it get recombined, in which case it would be sensible to recombine them into water.
And Sunny, there is no fuel cell (I know, I'm repeating myself), the electricity goes to the motor from the engine directly, just like in an electric car (though in an electric car, the electricity comes from a bunch of batteries, instead of an engine)
Where is the cathode? You need a complete circuit to have electricity; this is why fuel cells recombine the protons with electrons. If the protons are in fact, recombined into H, then this operates exactly the way a fuel cell does... but isn't? Further, how does this "engine" separate Hydrogen from water, but produce a net energy gain? Separating water
sounds easy, but it turns out that it takes huge amounts of energy since water is a highly stable molecule.
And CPH, about the tech not being there, there is a reason it is called invented.
What I'm pointing out is that such an invention would be revolutionary, to say the least. Incredible claims require incredible evidence. Knowing the technical challenge, I need to see exactly how this works, and proof that it does work as claimed.
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wonderous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross... but it's not for the timid." Q, Q Who
