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Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars
Fantastic Lad, among many others, points out another in a long series of claimed "powered by water" cars, this one by a Japanese company called "Genepax," which interestingly enough does not have so much as a Wikipedia entry. What's scary is the uncritical, even serious-sounding, presentation by Reuters of such extraordinary claims quite unbacked by extraordinary evidence. "Almost sounds too good to be true" isn't the half of it; if cars could be made which would run as "long as you have a bottle of water inside" to pour into the fuel tank ("even tea," repeats this report), not only would you know about the car, but you'd notice the long lines of people buying generators, laptops, and power tools that run on the same technology. The snippet Reuters is carrying says "Jun. 13 — Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water. The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car's tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it." Fantastic Lad, deadpan, goes on: "Check out the Reuter's story and accompanying video. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there some sort of conservation of energy thing happening in the whole 'separating hydrogen from water' game? I wonder what the real story is on this. Investment fraud? Magic?" Show your work; bonus points if you use Haiku.
I want my Mr fusion and I want it now!
Mine runs on hot air!
Just put Cowboy Neal at the exhaust!
booo hyuck. Ill be here all day.
Whats the problem? My windshield wipers have been running on water for years.
water runs your car
rain, tea, and cool gentle mists
maybe piss does too
Profane Muthafucka
Would purchase a water car
And fuel it with sperm.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Garden hose pressure
Spins turbine blades to release
BS upon world
we obay the laws of Thermodynamics
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2239/1801128557_043a923ea2.jpg
Rainy season comes
bringing with it a fresh crop
of nutball scammers
car runs on water
being fooled is never fun
want to buy a bridge?
Argh. The laws of science be a harsh mistress.
Funny to my mind
Magic Water Powered Car
This Haiku Stinks Bad
Also, if you pour dirt into the radiator, it cleans your hoses with the power of mud.
Homer Simpson says
In this house we all obey
Thermodynamics
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Car running on water
driving in a desert.
Which way do you go?
I could explain things to you, but I feel that it will be about as useful as trying to run a car using water, so I will simply skip to where the discussion would inevitably end:
FUCK OFF.
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Haikus are easy,
but sometimes they don't make sense.
Refridgerator.
Poor education
Drool from your lips runs the car
Reporters buy it
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
You owe me a new monitor and keyboard.
.."long as you have a bottle of water inside" to pour into the fuel tank ("even tea," repeats this report).. With what we're currently paying for bottled water, I think you'd be better off sticking with gas.Mr Fusion Car
Running on Water
Everybody make money!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Lake zombie Jason,
scary machete killer,
is in the front seat.
If you put solar panels on the car to gather energy for splitting the water, then the issue would practically solve itself, as the source of input energy (the sun) is inexhaustible in our lifetime.
They'd just need to be some damned-efficient solar panels.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
"they burn hydrogen somehow in a way that yields more energy than goes into extracting it from the most stable source of it, water"
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics! -Homer Simpson.
This car they describe is like a car that... um.. What do we use for analogies when we can't use cars?
Quickly scurries to Wiki to edit entry........
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
The company representative explicitly said "no external inputs except water". Are you suggesting that he isn't being truthful???
Of course he's being truthful! When the membrane clogs up and stops working, you throw the whole thing away and buy a new magic box that creates electricity from just water, duh!
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Hello? Did you even watch the video? It's pretty impossible to argue with what the video shows.
The video clearly shows a little, blue car with the words "Water Energy System" in small, green letters. What's more, the car has the words "H2O POWER", in big, white capital letters, written on it. "H20 POWER" is written on the front, the back, AND even the sides, in ALL CAPS so it's impossible to miss that this car uses H20 POWER. If it's NOT powered by water, then how come it says "H2O POWER" all over the car, Mr. Smarty Pants?
If that wasn't enough to silence the skeptics that the car uses H2O POWER, the video features a guy in a suit talking about the car. The fact that the guy talking is wearing a SUIT clearly shows that these guys are professionals, because professional people wear suits. Now, I can't tell what he's saying, because it's in Japanese. But that's not important. The fact that he is saying it in JAPANESE is the important thing. Because that PROVES that he is Japanese! And everyone knows that Japanese people are very, very smart. To top it all off, the video is narrated by a woman with a sophisticated-sounding British accent. The same kind of sophisticated British accent you will hear on the BBC, one of the world's most reliable news organizations. You can't argue with information that is presented with a sophisticated sounding foreign accent.
This season a car
It breaks the laws of physics
Investor fraud aye
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Fools and their money
Parted by free energy
while wiser men laugh
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
> What they are claiming is more fantastic than a
> perpetual motion machine and the Patent Office
> stopped bothering to examine perpetual motion
> applications decades ago.
The US Patent office has already issued approximately 20 patents related to water powered cars. That big automakers are in bed with big oil and still cranking out gasoline powered cars is where the real scam and scandal is.
Read 'em and weep, buddy.
US Patents issued to Stanley Meyer:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&Query=IN%2F%22Meyer%2C+Stanley%22
US Patents issued to Dennis Klein:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&Query=IN%2F%22Klein%2C+Dennis%22
Obviously Genepax also knows something you don't.
Suzanne.
I'm at http://www.suzcorner.com/
There once was a car from Japan
that seemed like a zero-point scam.
Then slashdot derived
that the H2O drive
got more energy out than you can.
If water was fuel
No smoking near the ocean
The world could explode
-BMojo
syllable count wrong
haiku nazis will correct
fix and try again