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the_ignored
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Posted - 05/17/2007 :  14:04:02  Show Profile Send the_ignored a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Has anyone here heard of a You Tube video which shows an engine (piston) that's supposed to be just running on water?

I don't got time to search here.

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>
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> still disappear if I was you.

What brought that on? this. Original posting here.

Another example of this guy's lunacy here.

JohnOAS
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Australia
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Posted - 05/17/2007 :  17:09:18   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit JohnOAS's Homepage Send JohnOAS a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by the_ignored

Has anyone here heard of a You Tube video which shows an engine (piston) that's supposed to be just running on water?

I don't got time to search here.

Running a keyword search on Youtube would have been quicker than posting a message here. Reviewing the results is a different matter.

Youtube keyword search on "Pump running on water"

Do you mean a pump somehow deriving it's power from water, or simply a pump driven by water under pressure? One is obviously slightly more revolutionary than the other.

John's just this guy, you know.
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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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Posted - 05/17/2007 :  19:02:51   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
So, the Wolfgang Pump appears to be useful as either a way of converting rotar energy into water flow, or water flow into rotary energy. I don't even see a claim this thing has, or could have, anything like the function of a car engine. Either of its functions have been done before -- this is just supposed to be a better type.

It is, indeed, "an engine (piston) running on water," when configured to take flowing water and turn its energy into rotary motion. You could make a practical car, with a long-enough hose attached.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
Edited by - HalfMooner on 05/17/2007 19:44:39
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Dave W.
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Posted - 05/17/2007 :  21:43:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I think Ig is looking for something more like this, found after doing a search for engine fueled water.

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JohnOAS
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Posted - 05/17/2007 :  22:18:07   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit JohnOAS's Homepage Send JohnOAS a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

I think Ig is looking for something more like this, found after doing a search for engine fueled water.

I just love how this scientific genius thinks that the perfect way to publicise such a wonderful engineering feat is Youtube.

What more convincing way could there be for demonstrating electrochemical reactions and energy efficiency than some grainy video of some detritus strapped to a lawnmower?



John's just this guy, you know.
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Original_Intent
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Posted - 05/18/2007 :  04:21:43   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Original_Intent a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Great.... Something wlse to compete for the water supply......

Peace
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Ghost_Skeptic
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Posted - 05/18/2007 :  04:29:01   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Ghost_Skeptic a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast once had an item on a car "that ran on water". This was achieved by using an gasoline engine to run a generator to electolize water into hydrogen and oxygen which was then combusted (they didntl say if this was in a fule cell or an internal combustion engine. Of course the Second Law of thermodynamics was biting them in the ass at every step of this materpiece of inefficciency. As usual, the inventor claimed that once it was perfected it wouldn't need the gasoline engine.

Apparently the world is still full of dufi that don't know that water is burned hydrogen - the end product of combustion of any hydrogen containing molecule and therfore about as far from a fuel as you can it.

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King

History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms

"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler

"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson
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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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Posted - 05/18/2007 :  04:38:46   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by JohnOAS

Originally posted by Dave W.

I think Ig is looking for something more like this, found after doing a search for engine fueled water.

I just love how this scientific genius thinks that the perfect way to publicise such a wonderful engineering feat is Youtube.

What more convincing way could there be for demonstrating electrochemical reactions and energy efficiency than some grainy video of some detritus strapped to a lawnmower?



Really. A paint thinner can and some tubes. No way to see what is even supposed to be going on. Crude hoax.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
Edited by - HalfMooner on 05/18/2007 04:39:15
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