Water powered car via electrolysis?

Paul Baucom ( (no email) )
Sun, 15 Aug 1999 00:21:44 -0500

As far as I understand it, I can separate the oxygen and hydrogen of water
molecules via electrolysis. Is this correct?

Is hydrogen a combustible gas? Is it combustible enough to run an internal
combustion engine?

Would the motion produced by burning the hydrogen in the engine be able to
generate enough electricity to continue electrolysis and power spark plugs,
lights, wipers, power windows, etc?

Besides O2, what emissions would there be? What does hydrogen produce when
it's burned? My chemistry teacher never touched on this kind of stuff, so I
could be totally off on everything.

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If the above is correct and there would be no other emissions besidesoxygen, then would we have a water powered car that also operates cleanly?

I searched Dejanews for similar articles, and all I found was a postsimilar to this. The person that replied apparently didn't understand thequestion and belittled the poster saying, "no such thing as perpetualmotion." Hmm, the word perpetual motion was

I'm sure something is wrong with this system, as it hasn't already beenbuilt (it was the first thing I thought of when I learned aboutelectrolysis, so I'm sure others have thought of it before). I just want toknow why it wouldn't work.

Thanks for any replies.

-pb