• brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I know of an engine that runs on water. It’s a shame you have to heat it up a whole lot first for it to become steam.

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      I knew a kid at boarding school who claimed his dad worked at BMW and was looking into this. Years later Im working at BMW in the cafeteria and I meet the kid’s dad. He did in fact look into hydrolysis for making hydrogen for cars on paper but couldn’t figure out how to not make the car explode in an accident.

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      My mom believes this one (she believes in a lot of crap…). Allegedly there was a dude who made a car run om water, but the evil oil company Shell bought the idea so that it would never come out!

      That is of course ignoring the fact that the supposed guy wouid still have knowledge on how to build one.

      Or… The simple fact that water can’t be used as a fuel like that.