Fun fact! It is thermodynamically impossible to make a vehicle that derives its energy from water. You cannot get more energy out of a water molecule than you put into it.
Edit: forgot about fusion. It is thermodynamically impossible to derive energy from the chemical bonds in water without putting more energy in than you get out. None of these water powered cars are using fusion generators. They’re all about splitting the oxygen from the hydrogen and then burning the hydrogen with the oxygen, and there simply isn’t a way to do that without wasting a ton of energy
My car contains a small micro-singularity levitating in a magnetic field. The engine feeds small amounts of matter into it, capturing a sizable fraction of the rest-mass of the infalling matter as usable energy. The fuel I choose to feed the black hole powering my car? Ordinary water.
Fun fact! It is thermodynamically impossible to make a vehicle that derives its energy from water. You cannot get more energy out of a water molecule than you put into it.
Edit: forgot about fusion. It is thermodynamically impossible to derive energy from the chemical bonds in water without putting more energy in than you get out. None of these water powered cars are using fusion generators. They’re all about splitting the oxygen from the hydrogen and then burning the hydrogen with the oxygen, and there simply isn’t a way to do that without wasting a ton of energy
You can heat the water somewhere, make the vehicle use the heat as energy, then swap out the cooled water for fresh hot water after driving 50m
Damn, that’s so crazy. Where do you live? Do you go through deserted alleys often?
Huh?
That’s meters, correct?
No, months.
Only if I’m not allowed to do fusion
That technology is only 10 years away, I hear
That was 30 years ago.
You could fuse it into silicon and helium, and produce quite a bit of energy that way.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
My car contains a small micro-singularity levitating in a magnetic field. The engine feeds small amounts of matter into it, capturing a sizable fraction of the rest-mass of the infalling matter as usable energy. The fuel I choose to feed the black hole powering my car? Ordinary water.
I have invented the water-powered car.
Well wait a second now, how small can we get hydroelectric dams? Let gravity do the work, sounds easy…/s
Not even if we squeeze it, like, real gentle but for a long time?
Well how much energy did you put into your water molecules?