# Water/hydrogen Power for real this time?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-hydrogen-power-for-real-this-time/393906>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 27, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-hydrogen-power-for-real-this-time/393906 "2007-02-27T19:05:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-hydrogen-power-for-real-this-time/393906/21 "2007-02-28T01:19:48Z")

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[Steven Hyde]  
…There’s this guy that invented this car and it runs on water, man. It’s got a fiberglass air-cooled engine and it runs on _water_!  
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**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-hydrogen-power-for-real-this-time/393906/22 "2007-02-28T03:01:24Z")

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This is the second time I’ve seen this on the boards so I looked around a little for someone that gives a reasonable explanaition.[Towards the bottom of this page is a pdf on Brown’s Gas](http://www.tinaja.com/)

Basically, it sounds like its just electrolyzed hydrogen and oxygen in their diatomic forms. There is nothing amazing about this at all.

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**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-hydrogen-power-for-real-this-time/393906/23 "2007-02-28T07:26:57Z")

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[QUOTE=Chronos]  
…in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics.  
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Well, maybe in _your_ house, but in _my_ house? I’m pretty much convinced that my 9 month old shits WAY more than she eats. 😉

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**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-hydrogen-power-for-real-this-time/393906/24 "2007-02-28T20:22:58Z")

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[QUOTE=Eleusis]  
Well, maybe in _your_ house, but in _my_ house? I’m pretty much convinced that my 9 month old shits WAY more than she eats. 😉  
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Well, that’s _babies_. Everyone knows they aren’t constrained by normal space/time laws.

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