Desperate times require desperate measures and no, I’m not talking about stealing gasoline from your neighbor’s truck. How would you like to make your car run with water? Yeah, I know it sounds absurd, but it is actually doable.

The basic principle is rather simple: water is made of hydrogen and oxygen. After you manage to obtain these elements out of which hydrogen fuel is the important one, you combine them back (by a process specialists like to call burning) and thus you get free energy. Hooray for chemistry!

Did you spot the problem yet? Well … let me help you. Obtaining hydrogen and oxygen consumes more power than you would get by simply burning them and this would apparently make the whole water engine thing useless.

Bummer? Not quite.

Because we can do something else. We can combine these raw materials with gasoline and thus get more power. It is a bit counterintuitive I know, but this technique dramatically increases the efficiency with which the gasoline burns and thus you save fuel

Ok! So how do you actually do this thing? Well … a website exists where you can take all the info you need on how to make your auto run with water, the DYI route. So take a look at runautowithwater.com for more details.

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