INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

Originally Posted by Baph

In theory, it's steam pressure, so why not? How efficient it would be to run the system from a battery, and charge the battery by the same system (ala a modern petrol engine) I'm not sure.

But looky here

Hmmm ... steam pressure? I would imagine IMO that it refers to the fact that water is combination of oxygen and hydrogen. Break those 2 and you have some really "explosive stuff".

Originally Posted by Dave The Rave

Hmmm ... steam pressure? I would imagine IMO that it refers to the fact that water is combination of oxygen and hydrogen. Break those 2 and you have some really "explosive stuff".

Adding water to burning aluminium is a great example of this. Hence the use of foam at airports.

Originally Posted by Dave The Rave

Hmmm ... steam pressure? I would imagine IMO that it refers to the fact that water is combination of oxygen and hydrogen. Break those 2 and you have some really "explosive stuff".

I was refering to using water as a combustable fuel. Yea, it can be broken down into is constituent elements, but that takes as much energy as you get out of buring hydrogen on oxygen (so no net gain or loss in energy. Well, maybe loss, since tehre are entropic effects when burning stuff...)

Matt

Daughter has a LCD clock that you put water in to get it going.

Originally Posted by Ed

Daughter has a LCD clock that you put water in to get it going.

I would imagine the water is acting first as a solvent, and then a conductor to complete the circuit and run the watch, being driven by a normal cell.

I actually do (more or less) believe that there has been a pretty huge conspiracy to purposefully not develop any other type of engine than petrol / diesel burning ones by the major motor car manufacturers. That potentially usable electric cars were knocked on the head at birth.

But... I am a but gullible that way.

Seriously though. Something odd was / is going on. Nothing has advanced as slowly and poorly as the internal combustion engine in the US. Look at NYC taxi's (Fords), they get 11 - 12 mpg. That is staggeringly bad. That takes effort. Hummers are about as efficient.
Something is up.

nobody visited the megathread from 4.39 sunday morning untill 10 o'clock sunday night

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Originally Posted by hovi5

nobody visited the megathread from 4.39 sunday morning untill 10 o'clock sunday night

O...M...G!

It coincided with hell freezing over (temporarily) and the stars aligning in the sky.

Matt

you only breath through one nostril at a time ever

Originally Posted by BernardBikerchick

you only breath through one nostril at a time ever

holding 2 strips of tissue below me nose (one under each nostril) i can declare that to be false.