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Hard to figure out what's going on here: Car "powered by saltwater" declared street legal for testing in Germany
Posted By: MrFusion [Send E-Mail]
Date: Tuesday, 23-Sep-2014 18:43:44
I've read the description in this article:
http://inhabitat.com/the-worlds-first-saltwater-powered-electric-car-is-now-street-legal-in-germany/
and I've read the description here:
http://www.nanoflowcell.com/en/nanoflowcell#nanoflowcell-potenzial
...and I still can't figure out what is powering this car. The article at inhabitat.com says something about "a special type of gasoline", by which they may mean "a special type of fuel", because I don't see anything about gasoline in the company's description of their "nanoflowcell". But the company's description also does not explain much, using a lot of flowery language to not quite say clearly how it works.
If I wanted to put a really optimistic interpretation on it, I would say that perhaps they are using some alternative energy source like zero-point energy or quantum energy or even cold fusion to split hydrogen and oxygen out of water, and then recombining the two gases in a fuel cell to generate the electricity to power the car. Their vague and fuzzy description might then be a necessary obscuring of what is going on to keep big money energy interests from shutting them down.
I rather expect this to mysteriously fade away like the Japanese water-powered car that was briefly in the news a few years ago. Or to turn out to be much more conventional than it sounds.
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1 comment:
Its not gasoline, whoever wrote that article is insanely dumb.
It is simple ionic fluid exchange tech, similar but different to a fuel cell. Positively charged fluid interacts with negatively charged fluid, inefficient but easy to exchange, as in you could go to a retrofitted gas station and simply dump the liquid for fresh liquid, and off you go.
Motor Trend did a great article on it recently.
Man, its like that writer wanted us to believe something else other than the current truth. Maybe for ad clicks around his website?
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