Future option for r/c cars?

[specialmias]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/07/24/china.hydrogen.car.ap/index.html

I'm tempted to buy one just to see if I can possibly mount some micro servos on the bugger. Seriously though I did not know that the technology to extract hydrogen from water was around, much less usable I thought it was just some pipe dream they kept saying would come around in the next 10 years or so. Who knows maybe one of the major r/c companies will catch on.

[balang_479]

thats amazing cant wait to see some real professional hydrpgen fuel cell engines coming along,

[snakecharmer89]

thats pretty trick looking... but where do you get the hydrogen from to refuel it?

[Brian23]

the hydrogen is in the water. Heat and electricty are used to extract it.

[InspGadgt]

Well it's not an engine like a combustion engine...the exhaust actually comes from the fuel cell. The chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen results in heat, electrical current, and water. The electrical current is then used to power an electric motor which powers the car.

small steps like this is just what we need to give the alternative fuel source industry a boost.

[rocknbil]

specialmias, welcome aboard with that awesome post! Yeah me too, gotta have one, wonder where they'll show up first in the US! :D

[XXWoodmanXX]

Let's face it, OPEC's got the market in a strangehold and isn't letting up. Alternative fuel sources that cannot be controlled by them will fail to ever exist. Well, that is,....while there's a republican in office. :p

Don't you find it a bizarre/scary coincidence that the man that patented the water-powered automoile was mysteriously killed?

[InspGadgt]

Innovation and change in this area should come from private industry as have the vast majority of advances allready have. Of course if you want to bring government into it...for some reason it always seems to get over looked that the president did allocate several million dollars in grant money for the development of alternative fuel sources.

[XXWoodmanXX]

Considering oil companies have claimed the #1 reasoning in rising gas prices is to offset rising subsidiary costs, assisting in R&D for those said alternative fuel sources. These "millions" are like comparing a bucket of water to an ocean.

[rocknbil]

...Don't you find it a bizarre/scary coincidence that the man that patented the water-powered automoile was mysteriously killed?

LOL!! :D Where oh WHERE did you hear this? The Internet is a great grapevine - the RUMOR I heard the was that patent was bought by Chrysler (or GMC, or FORD, or whatever, "take your pick") and the patent was buried, but now - murdered like some Silverwood movie! hahaha . . . .

I have snoped this one and they do not have an article on it, but it has come up before and I just submitted a request for it.

So you have opened up Pandora's box now, do you have any articles or links to a single factual representation of this claim?

I have personally followed this one since I was 20 or so and have always "heard this" and "heard that" about it, never a single verifiable resource . . . . . FACTS PLEASE! :D

[z-man280]

shoot, most of the cars in northern michigan run on water! just TRY and get good gas from the EZ Mart stations around here! I think its half water at least.... :p
I heard something similar on the magical 4 barrel carb too, got bought out or something,...454 BBC that could make 450+ h.p. and still pull over 40 mpg, or something like that.

[rocknbil]

Got a reply from Barbara at snopes.com today, z-man she says the "water-burning engine patent" is a variation on the 200 MPG carburetor myth you're talking about:

What you heard was a variation on the theme we discuss in our article at
http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/carburetor.asp

I think they are to completely separate bull stories, but when you think about it, the bull tends to run together once it's dropped in the pen . . . :D

[InspGadgt]

Considering oil companies have claimed the #1 reasoning in rising gas prices is to offset rising subsidiary costs, assisting in R&D for those said alternative fuel sources. These "millions" are like comparing a bucket of water to an ocean.

That may be but at least he's doing something about it. Which is more then previous presidents have done. Plus add the fact that those oil companies investing in that reasearch will recoup their investment in the long run once a viable alternative goes mainstream. They see that and that is why they are doing it. If they just sit and do nothing as the world moves toward other energy sources they will lose part of their market share.

[z-man280]

seen on local news today that oil companies claimed record profit for this quarter.big shock there.
Thanks Rocknbil, will go check that out.

[XXWoodmanXX]

LOL!! :D Where oh WHERE did you hear this? The Internet is a great grapevine - the RUMOR I heard the was that patent was bought by Chrysler (or GMC, or FORD, or whatever, "take your pick") and the patent was buried, but now - murdered like some Silverwood movie! hahaha . . . .

I have snoped this one and they do not have an article on it, but it has come up before and I just submitted a request for it.

So you have opened up Pandora's box now, do you have any articles or links to a single factual representation of this claim?

I have personally followed this one since I was 20 or so and have always "heard this" and "heard that" about it, never a single verifiable resource . . . . . FACTS PLEASE! :D

In all honesty, IIRC, it was a 10-15min. vid file on Putfile.com. It sited his accomplishments, revalations/patents, followed by news footage of his untimely demise. Kinda freaked me out. Kinda reminded me of that movie, "Anti-Trust"