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Wednesday 20 April 2011

When do you think we will start using water to power cars?

Are cars already running on water?

NO

If they did exist

Cars powered by water would initially be a hybrid electric car , which will use hydrogen ions liberated from water into the cars "gas" tank, the resultant gas would be from the exhaust as steam.


It seems simple but due to the explosive nature of hydrogen gas, this big factor is best left for scientists and engineers to fathom.

Prediction two, so we know water powered cars will use hydrogen derived from water to sustain power, these car will ultimately need to be powered using a hydrogen fuel cell.


Photo Credit: Hugo90 Flickr.com
GM Electrovan 1966

After extensive research the closest that I came to finding a car powered by water, was the Garrett electrolytic carburetor ( not pictured above) which was alleged to run for a few minutes, but that was in 1955!
The picture above is a 1966 General motors elcrovan, the first model they produced that contained a hydrogen fuel cell.


To produce a car which can run on water, it would use hydrogen from water as a carrier of energy but not produce it directly.

In terms of producing energy a radio frequency can be used to liberate hydrogen ions, but this can be a cause for concern, because at the wrong frequency , it may produce a detonation effect, so the car could travel miles but just not in a forward direction as you expect. It would be more of upward and outward!


Although there are claims all over the Internet of people actually running cars on water, do not buy into these claims as it is yet to be discovered and completely credited as working.





If you know of any water powered cars please post in the comments below, with the following template:

The name of the Car:
It can be bought from car company:
Its top speed:
miles/gallon data if you please:

I'll update this post as more positive evidence is found, so check back soon.
Thanks for Reading.

Tuesday 19 April 2011

Where does wind energy come from?

Wind Power is usually split into two types, offshore and land based operations.

Most of the wind energy produced  for power needs comes from wind farms, great big windmill type contraptions produce electricity because as the wind blows it turns the blades on a shaft, which powers a generator.


Photo credit: Peter Heilmann Flickr.com


I can rightly predict that the use of wind power will greatly increase in the future, it has been recently demonstrated that wind turbines can be extremely robust.

In March 2011 , a Japanese Earthquake on the eastern part of the country caused mass devastation, not only to the power infrastructure, but in the hearts and minds of the people who live there and the world over.
It is a known fact that the regions wind farms and other wind powered capabilities remained in tact.
Wind Power is designed to convert renewable sources of energy and it did just that.


Wind Circulation

Wind energy is mechanical energy, the rotating movement of the blades of the windmill produces electricity through a generator.

The wind is formed by the heating and cooling effects of the suns rays, the air rotates in high and low pressure which generates wind.

Depending  on the type of wind pressure that is generated,whether it is a cool breeze on your face, different capacity of the strength of wind is formed in different parts of the world, this power goes to producing an effective source of untapped energy, for use by us in the form of heating and lighting.



Photo Credit: .Swallowtail. flickr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38171849@N02/


Texas has the largest onshore (on land) wind farms in the world, by the end of 2007 they were producing 16,596 MW of power which is the equivalent to powering 5 million homes based on average household consumption.

Solar energy power is more preferable to wind energy as the yield of energy is much better, but this is likely to change through the power of wind power technologies, which will need to become more cost effective to gain higher yields.

To have wind power for your home, usually a wind turbine power system is installed, this is currently the only way to use wind energy for direct use into your home.