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A motor vehicle in which the fuel is water without any other energy output is called a water-fuelled car. The fuel in water-fuelled cars is hydrogen, from the compound of water. This type of vehicle is not a steam engine due to using the hydrogen as energy not steam.

Wood or coal is burned to heat up the water in a steam engine. The steam is that which moves the engine due to it being heated. This process makes the coal or wood the fuel source not the water.

It is hard to convert water into fuel because it is a waste product. A substance with less energy must be made, as such with petrol (gas), wood or coal. When the substance with less energy is made, the unstable bonds convert into stable bonds.

It is hard to convert water because it is already a very stable bond. Water resists most reactions due to its stability. A high-energy compound must be added for water to be converted into energy.

Adding calcium carbide to water makes a fuel called acetylene. In this stance, the fuel is the calcium carbine not the actual water. The only real way to make water a fuel is by electrolysis.

Electrolysis is a process of a current of power is sent through the water to separate the bond. The hydrogen then from the compound of 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen, is used as the energy source. It takes a lot of power to separate the bond.

However, because this type of engine needs a battery to be able to convert the water into energy by electrolysis, it is not completely considered a water-fuelled engine. The hydrogen can be converted at an efficiency of 50-70%. However, using that much energy from the battery does not allow it to last very long, thus the vehicle does not stay moving long.

A proper and successful water fuelled car has yet to be designed. Creating a truly water-fuelled vehicle is blocked by the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Many vehicles that have been created with the idea that they are water-fuelled have been classified as perpetual motion machines due to the strictness of these two laws.

In Japan, there is an invention that could quite possibly be a true water fuelled car, but it still hasn’t received its patent. An invention must receive a patent to be marketed. A patent also saves a company from being copied by other companies.

It is possible that they have finally found a way to use the abundant resource of water for fuel with the Japanese company trying to hard to get their patent. Then the millions around the world who have been hurt by the raise of the price of petrol can breathe a little more easily if this is the case. We will have a cleaner and cheaper way to get around in the not so distant future.

The secret to the Japanese car has not been leaked to other manufacturers yet. They are keeping their invention strictly to themselves. However, they do believe that they will have it patented and ready within the next ten years.