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[challenge entry] It is a well-known fact that ...
somebody invented a car engine which will run on water.
The oil companies bought the rights, and are not going to reveal it until the oil runs out.

From the 100% Fact challenge. See all 469 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! Cassidy : Vissi d'arte, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:06, archived)
# Didn't they make one that runs on alchole?
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:08, archived)
# I hope not
what a waste
(I helped save b3ta! wayward., Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:09, archived)
# But a good idea for a picture.
Where is that sunny elephant when you need him?
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:09, archived)
# they use them for race cars
and in some less economically developed countries.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:10, archived)
# Or maybe they give them to the crowd,
so they think the cars are moving?
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:11, archived)
# Just think how much more
of a problem fuel siphoning would be.
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:12, archived)
# helloo?
(I helped save b3ta! Sunshine Elephant, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:14, archived)
# Hello there.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:16, archived)
# It's true
I saw the blue prints
(I helped save b3ta! @man move along, nothing to see here on, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:09, archived)
# ??
(I helped save b3ta! Ptortoise, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:17, archived)
# maximum arfage
cerrrlarse
(I helped save b3ta! @man move along, nothing to see here on, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:19, archived)
# it's a petrol-methanol
mixture.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:10, archived)
# They still do
in some countries cars run off a sugar-cane based alcohol - much cheaper than petrol but buggers the engine up apparently.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:10, archived)
# it's not just cheaper,
but more efficient too.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:10, archived)
# Hydrogen's what you want though.
Made out of water, the waste from refining is oxygen, the waste from combustion is water vapour.
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:12, archived)
# problem is
you use so much energy seperating the hydrogen from the oxygen it kind of defeats the purpose.

(I helped save b3ta! @man move along, nothing to see here on, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:13, archived)
# there's actually loads of reactions
that give out hydrogen as a result, there has to be a fairly clean one that could be done on an industrial scale. something along the lines of acid + metal -> salt + hydrogen could be used, probably.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:15, archived)
# But then you still need to produce the acid
(which must require energy because it is not a naturally stable compound).

Essentially water sits at the bottom of the energy well for many reactions. We can't expect to split it out into reactive components (which are much higher up the well) without the input of an appropriate amount of energy.

The *only* real source of energy on this planet is the sun. Coal and oil are just caches of the sun's energy from a long time ago. Geothermal energy comes from gravitational forces. Nuclear energy exists due to the turbulent formation of the sun and our solar system.
(I helped save b3ta! Hagbard ... it's been a long time., Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:28, archived)
# except the cheapest way to make hydrogen
is by burning coal, so you're fucked.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:13, archived)
# Bah, all we need is a simple fusion reactor
Which can take hydrgoen and turn it into helium, yes we will run out of water eventually.
(I helped save b3ta! Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:15, archived)
# .....or coconut oil.
The Bougainville Revolutionary Army makes do with a small amount of company vehicles it took from some miners, which it runs on coconut oil. A group of villagers working for about 20 hours can produce enough fuel to drive a 4WD vehicle 50 miles over rough terrain. Coconut Oil quite literally fuels the revolution. It not only powers `Radio Free Bougainville' it also powers the lathes which the BRA use to turn the water pipes from the mine into home made gun barrels.

more on Bougainville


(I helped save b3ta! @man move along, nothing to see here on, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:17, archived)
# Blimey.
Hire mercenaries.
It's a lot cheaper and less effort.
(I helped save b3ta! Razor What the fuck - a sig?, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:25, archived)
# They're working on stealing hydrogen from the sun.
100% FACT.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:17, archived)
# One slight problem is that hydrogen goes bang rather readily.
If you have large amounts of H2 around and you crash...
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:14, archived)
# not really, it's less explosive than petrol.
the hindenburg disaster was all due to static electricity on the airship's hull.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:16, archived)
# But for a hydrogen-oxygen cell to power a car
you'd need a fair bit of hydrogen gas - much more than you'd need of petrol, at least.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:23, archived)
# Hydrogen is the best bet at the moment
however the condenser it needs to convert it to a usable form is much too large at present
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:15, archived)
# I heard that
Incidently I have just been reading all those pranks.
You're all sick and I love you all, although I am deeply concerned as to just how little moral fibre you have. (Obviously not all, but most!)

(I helped save b3ta! Banana, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:11, archived)
# I never got around
to writing up my one, which involved a bong, an unsuspecting friend who had never smoked weed and a whole bar of ex-lax laxative chocolate..
(I helped save b3ta! @man move along, nothing to see here on, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:23, archived)
# Good one.
I like a conspiracy theory with my elevenses. Not to different to the one about pharmacutical companies having cracked the common cold years ago, but not wanting to lose the multi-billion remedy market.
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:11, archived)
# Is it 12?
Im not sure if my clocks have changed.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:12, archived)
# Yes.
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:12, archived)
# I changed my watch
but forgot to change my alarm clock, so I got up an hour early this morning. Balls.
(I helped save b3ta! wayward., Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:14, archived)
# The ever-lasting light bulb is another good one.
There is obviously something about these tales (paranoid dead granny stories?) which people want to believe.
Many years ago, several people told me that Harry Ferguson (of Ferguson tractors) had invented a revolutionary engine which needed very little fuel, but that it had been suppressed.
I suppose conspiracy theories about big business are not much different to theories about Jews (thank you, Dr Mahathir), freemasons, alien lizards and all the rest.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassidy : Vissi d'arte, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:19, archived)
# The Alumni storys are true,
just ask Goatse.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:22, archived)
# Alumni?
Illuminati?
Personally, I blame the Rosicrucians ...
(I helped save b3ta! Cassidy : Vissi d'arte, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:32, archived)
# the lean burn engine that
would've given 100 or more miles to the gallon WAS invented and was due to be released untill pressure from the big german manufacturers pushed the EU into using catalytic converters that don't work with it. Would've also been less polluting that cat's in our climate.

Shame adding 200-500 quid to the price of a car was more economically viable than better fuel economy
(I helped save b3ta! Darkedge, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:24, archived)
# Barstards
Water isnt much cheaper than petrol though, expecially when in drought weather...

Woo for the graphic!
(MissieMissie, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:15, archived)
# racing cars
.. they can fuel racing car engines on what they can squeeze out of hemp stalks, and if hemp was legal it would solve fuel problems worldwide and we wouldnt have had the need to go and steal it from iraq.. FACT!
(BULLSHIT_and_ONIONS, Mon 27 Oct 2003, 12:31, archived)