Water powered car from Genepax

By the time we all made repeatedly frustrated by Blue Energy farce which never showed signs of completion, a company from Japan called Genepax announced products powered cars claimed the water. If in the case of 'Blue Energy' who first spread the 'findings' is Java Pos newspaper, then in the case Genepax is responsible for Reuters India.

Genepax unveiled the car in the western city of Osaka on Thursday, saying that a liter (2.1 pints) of any kind of water-rain, river or sea-was all you needed to get the engine going for about an hour at a speed of 80 km (50 miles).

"The car will continue to run as long as you have a bottle of water to top up from time to time," Genepax CEO Kiyoshi Hirasawa told local broadcaster TV Tokyo. "It does not require you to build up an infrastructure to recharge your batteries, which is usually the case for most electric cars," he added.

Some people consider 'success' this is one of the 'evidence' that the 'Blue Energy' is not an impossible project. But surely the law of conservation of energy still applies.

According to FuelCell Today:

Though the company did not Reveal any more detail the company president said that they had "succeeded in Adopting a well-known process to produce hydrogen from water to the MEA", similar to the mechanism that produces hydrogen by a reaction of metal hydride and water . However the company claims that compared with the existing method, the new process produces hydrogen from water for a longer time.

Paragraph above a little more clear that the fuel is not water. I wonder what the purpose of this product to market Genepax with slogans like 'H20 Power' and the like. Water is able to react with hydrogen to form hydrides. But so are a source of energy is the hydride, not water.

Just to speculate, could be the car reacting aluminum with water to obtain hydrogen and waste in the form of aluminum oxide. Sooner or later it will run out of aluminum and must be replaced. This process we refer to as 'fuel injection'. As for producing aluminum fuel also requires energy that is not free. And of course we also need to question where the energy origin.

In short, the water is not fuel.