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July 27th, 2006

Where are the damn Mythbusters when I need ‘em?

Click HERE to watch it work.

I’ve always considered the concept of “The Water Engine” to be Urban Myth of the highest order… but…

Apparently the guy has been summoned to appear before congress to answer to them for his engine, and to be examined to see if he’s as legitimate as he seems to be.

I’ll be watching those proceedings carefully to see if his claim that this car of his drove 100 miles on 4 oz. (that’s OUNCES) of water actually HOLDS water.

Seems too good to be true… and I can say that all the sites on the web that seems to reference HHO gas just wreak of crack-pottery.

3 things from the video that put me off :

1. When he shows the engine, it’s “conveniently” rigged as an HHO/Gasoline hybrid. Let me tell ya, if I had a car that could go 100 miles on 4 ounces of water, I wouldn’t need no idiotic gasoline back-up.

2. They guy’s smirk when they ask him what his engine runs on and he dead-pans “water”. I’ve seen old codgers like that before, and they always grin like that when they think they’re getting over on you. My old Grandpa used to smile at me like that, when he was telling me one of his gigantic whoppers.

3. As a Comp-Sci/Mathematics major in college, advanced physics was mandatory - and Mr. Isaac Newton assures me that if this guy’s claim is basically true - then the amount of energy required to refine the 4 oz of water he used to run the car 100 miles into HHO was probably… a lot. As in… a lot more than is practical in everyday use.

Maybe I’m selling him short. I dunno.

Either way it’s an interesting blurb.

I’ll watch it close for a bit - and see where it ends up.

Entry Filed under: General, Big Oil, Thoughts