Solar was a huge advancement as an energy source. You can go to just about any town or city out there and see houses with solar cells sitting on the roof. But this has proven a bit unreliable in the automotive industry. Maybe once they get the solar cells to high yield efficiency, then having a solar powered car will be more acceptable.

Electric cars have been around for quite a number of years, and with new technology they seem to be improving by leaps and bounds over solar. Unfortunately, you still have to plug them in to recharge them every night as well as after a certain number of miles.

This brings us to a water powered car. Water 4 gas seems to be one of those fantasy realm inventions. However, many people have claimed to rig up their vehicle to use water for gas which also increases the mileage per gallon. There are a lot of skeptics out there who say it just won’t work with the technology we have today. If you search the internet, you can see many videos and testimonies that prove otherwise.

You first must understand that you aren’t actually using the water 4 gas. You have to first deconstruct the water into two different gases: hydrogen and oxygen. Once you have the water broken down into the gases, it is pumped into the engine and burned as gasoline would be. With the combination of oxygen and hydrogen there is no need for the fuel mixture to become oxygenated as in a regular carburetor or fuel injection system. This gives a bit more power in the system as long as you have the gas mixture set right.

There are a few kits available that allow you to use both the water and gas for fuel systems. These are a bit more expensive, however, because of the different flow gauges that are needed and the switches needed to change between one system and the other. This allows you to get well over 300 miles a gallon! Now, that is what fuel efficiency is all about.

You can choose to do this all by yourself, but it would probably be a bit smoother if you have a qualified mechanic set the system up for you. Unless you are very familiar with how an internal combustion engine works, a mechanic would be the easiest and safest way to go when turning your car into a water 4 gas car.

If using water to fuel cars were to actually be perfected, it could be the answer to the current “gas shortage.” People could once again afford to drive where they needed to go instead of having to walk or rely on public transportation. It seems like an idea that more people need to investigate with everyone going broke from buying gas for their vehicles. Yes, water cars could be the answer.

A Swiss inventor named Isaac de Rivaz actually made the first car powered by water in 1805. Now, you know that gas wasn’t around at that time, but Isaac was a smart man. As he was the first man to make a vehicle that could run on an internal combustion engine, he also figured out how to fuel it. He used the hydrogen extracted from water. Yet, 200 years of technology and for some reason, this seems to be impossible to do now. That sort of makes you scratch your head, doesn’t it?

There are many devices on the market now to convert cars from gas guzzling money hogs to hydrogen powered, money saving water cars. Some of these have actually received decent reviews from the consumers who purchased them and gave them a test run. The jury is still out on whether or not this can be something for everyone. But, so far, the tests look encouraging.

It may very well be that one day in the not too distant future, it will become possible to totally eliminate the need for gas as a fuel for vehicles. In addition, if water can be converted for use in powering a car, who is to say this cannot be done for other things requiring the use of gas? That day, too, may come.

The idea to run a car on water is not exactly a new thing. There was a Swiss inventor in the late 1800’s who accomplished this. The idea is now gaining quite a bit of ground today with the ever increasing prices of fuel around the world. With oil reaching up to the $150 a barrel mark, water as a fuel source seems to be the golden ticket of the technologically advanced candy factory.

The prospect of being able to run a car on water doesn’t seem very feasible at first glance. Water doesn’t actually burn very well. However, when you separate the hydrogen from the oxygen, you get a highly combustible gas that can not only make your car get to the store, but can even send rockets into space. You read that right! Most rockets use a hydrogen/nitrogen gas system that enables them to escape the earth’s gravitational pull and enter into space. Your car may not shoot itself to the moon, but it will still run little Billy to the soccer match on time.

Also, the engine runs a bit quieter while using a water fuel system. That may not sound too manly on those jacked up pickups and Harley motorcycles, but when you consider that your aren’t polluting the air with all of that smog causing carbon emissions, the quieter exhaust is a fair trade off. Run a car on water to save the environment!

So, the next time someone mentions they wished that their car could run on water in a half laughing joke, you can tell them it certainly could if they wanted it to. It may not be very common right now, but as soon as someone finds the easiest and most efficient way of turning the everyday gas engine into a water burning powerhouse, the oil companies better beware!

While they have moved forward quite successfully in the process of using water as a fuel base, when they first started it was a hit and miss operation. It was usually a waste of essential energy to turn the water into hydrogen in the first dim years of the technology. While they were able to use water as a fuel, it was costing more energy to get the process underway than it was capable of putting out to use for the engine. This dynamic waste of energy needed to be overcome quickly if a water fuel system could ever become a reality.

Many people tried using different ways of making cars that run on water. Most of those were frauds seeking to rip off investors,resulting in turning the whole idea of water as a fuel source into a scam in the eyes of most people. One of these was the ever popular gas pill that supposedly turned the water trapped in a gas tank into fuel that the engine could actually run on. However ,most of the time, the pill did nothing with the rare exception of the ones that used boron to create a chemical reaction that turned the water into a light for of hydrogen that could be burned with the gasoline in the process.

Using cars that run on water would be one of those momentous things in history that would rival even the building of the great pyramids in Egypt. Being able to be completely free from the use of fossil fuels and foreign governments for our transportation needs would definitely be one of mankind’s greatest achievements. However, we seem to still be a few steps behind in the technological department to make this out come feasible at this time. While science and inventors around the world are working over time to solve this problem, there is a chance that within a few years cars that run on water could be in every ones carport across the world.

These two types are hydrogen fuel cars and hydrogen cell cars. They both use hydrogen in order to power the vehicle, but they are essentially two different delivery systems.

A hydrogen car uses hydrogen in much the same way that a regular car uses gasoline to power the engine. You fill the reservoir tank with liquid hydrogen at a filling station, and it is in turn sent into the engine itself, mixing with a set amount of oxygen for the combustion. This technique is used in all manner of vehicles ranging from cars to airplanes and even some buses, in much the same way as natural gas and propane have been used to fuel vehicles.

The other system is the use of a hydrogen fuel cell. This is essentially a cell that breaks down water to create hydrogen with electrical ballast. The fuel cells are rather more convenient to use than the liquid hydrogen vehicles, as you only have to plug them in and fill them with water. These are becoming a bit more popular with the need to find an alternative fuel source since creating liquid hydrogen for non-cell vehicles still requires an amount of fossil based fuels to accomplish.

The down sides to a fuel cell are that you have to constantly keep an electrical charge to the cell in order to create the fuel needed. The disadvantage of the liquid hydrogen system in a hydrogen car is that the size of the fuel tank needed is much greater than a regular gasoline tank. This coupled with the infrequency of filling stations makes a fuel cell that much more desirable than the liquid system. However, there is technology in the works to create a high pressure delivery system that would reduce the amount of liquid hydrogen needed almost in half. This is seen as a giant leap in the right direction over the fuel cell systems

With all of the conflict going on in the world today, and the price of oil rising at such a rate, it looks like the technology for a hydrogen car is right around the corner. Once they get the delivery systems worked out and available, then they can take the time to figure out the refueling of the vehicles, which is one of the major reasons it’s not widely available just yet.