Water Powered Cars: Too Good To Be True?
 Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 by Connie T.
Okay, so the Hydrogen tank is bulky...but isn't most new technology bulky? Not that it's brand new...in fact,
this Japanese water-powered car has been around for a little over a year. The Genepax debuted in Osaka last June, with an
onboard energy generator called a "membrane electrode assembly" that extracts hydrogen from water by a "chemical reaction."
So why haven't we heard of this car then? Why isn't Leonardo DiCaprio driving it?
"The fact that [Barack] Obama & Co. are
not all over this is a sign of how profoundly compromised he is by the oil industry," writes a blogger at BrassCheckTV.
Not so simple, counters Michael Graham Richard of TreeHugger. Fueling the conspiracy
theories about water cars, he said, "is that the media run these segments where they show water cars driving around, and it all seems to work,
and then we never hear about them again. People figure that Big Oil (or the Illuminati, whatever) is suppressing the technology.
"The reality is more mundane: it is actually possible to make a car look like it runs on water without breaking the first law of thermodynamics." The metal hydrides
needed to power the reaction with water to produce hydrogen need to be replace and actually substitute for fuel themselves, he reports. And,
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which Genepax has been reluctant to provide.
Whether or not the Genepax is truly fuel-free,
there will certainly be developments in technology in the not so distant future that we'll all marvel at, and both water and solar power have
making strides in the new millennium. Nothing is impossible (except maybe slamming a revolving door)!
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