Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars 736
Fantastic Lad, among many others, points out another in a long series of claimed "powered by water" cars, this one by a Japanese company called "Genepax," which interestingly enough does not have so much as a Wikipedia entry. What's scary is the uncritical, even serious-sounding, presentation by Reuters of such extraordinary claims quite unbacked by extraordinary evidence. "Almost sounds too good to be true" isn't the half of it; if cars could be made which would run as "long as you have a bottle of water inside" to pour into the fuel tank ("even tea," repeats this report), not only would you know about the car, but you'd notice the long lines of people buying generators, laptops, and power tools that run on the same technology. The snippet Reuters is carrying says "Jun. 13 — Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water. The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car's tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it." Fantastic Lad, deadpan, goes on: "Check out the Reuter's story and accompanying video. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there some sort of conservation of energy thing happening in the whole 'separating hydrogen from water' game? I wonder what the real story is on this. Investment fraud? Magic?" Show your work; bonus points if you use Haiku.
Screw water (Score:5, Funny)
Mines better! (Score:3, Funny)
Just put Cowboy Neal at the exhaust!
booo hyuck. Ill be here all day.
Whats the problem.... (Score:3, Funny)
haiku (Score:5, Funny)
water runs your car
rain, tea, and cool gentle mists
maybe piss does too
uunnngh (Score:5, Funny)
Would purchase a water car
And fuel it with sperm.
Haiku (Score:5, Funny)
Spins turbine blades to release
BS upon world
In this house... (Score:4, Funny)
This car has no trouble running on water... (Score:5, Funny)
Summer (Score:5, Funny)
bringing with it a fresh crop
of nutball scammers
Deep thoughts..... (Score:5, Funny)
car runs on water
being fooled is never fun
want to buy a bridge?
Water Car Haiku (Score:3, Funny)
Magic Water Powered Car
This Haiku Stinks Bad
Re:Running cars on water? (Score:5, Funny)
Haiku (Score:5, Funny)
In this house we all obey
Thermodynamics
Re:Whats the problem.... (Score:5, Funny)
Water car haiku (Score:5, Funny)
driving in a desert.
Which way do you go?
Re:Open your minds, please. (Score:2, Funny)
FUCK OFF.
Re:Open your minds, please. (Score:2, Funny)
Haiku (Score:5, Funny)
but sometimes they don't make sense.
Refridgerator.
Poor education -- haiku (Score:5, Funny)
Poor education
Drool from your lips runs the car
Reporters buy it
Re:Running cars on water? (Score:4, Funny)
Tea? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In this house... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Screw water haiku (Score:4, Funny)
Running on Water
Everybody make money!
Re:Running cars on water? (Score:1, Funny)
WTF? (Score:4, Funny)
scary machete killer,
is in the front seat. [blogsmithmedia.com]
Re:Whats the problem.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:haiku (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but only if you are using a reciprocating internal combustion engine that has pisstons.
While most likely a hoax... (Score:3, Funny)
They'd just need to be some damned-efficient solar panels.
Re:Not saying it's credible at first glance.. (Score:2, Funny)
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics! -Homer Simpson.
Obligatory Car Analogy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:haiku (Score:5, Funny)
Re:haiku (Score:5, Funny)
Lisa, in this house
We obey the Three Laws of
Thermodynamics
---
Cap'n, I canna
Break the laws o' physics
But Genepax can
Re:Mines better! (Score:5, Funny)
Pigs fly out of my buttocks
Your check is in mail.
Re:Screw water (Score:5, Funny)
Check back tomorrow for the press release.
Re:Running cars on water? (Score:3, Funny)
Quickly scurries to Wiki to edit entry........
Re:How it works (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How it works (Score:3, Funny)
Of course he's being truthful! When the membrane clogs up and stops working, you throw the whole thing away and buy a new magic box that creates electricity from just water, duh!
Re:Running cars on water? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Not saying it's credible at first glance.. (Score:5, Funny)
Hello? Did you even watch the video? It's pretty impossible to argue with what the video shows.
The video clearly shows a little, blue car with the words "Water Energy System" in small, green letters. What's more, the car has the words "H2O POWER", in big, white capital letters, written on it. "H20 POWER" is written on the front, the back, AND even the sides, in ALL CAPS so it's impossible to miss that this car uses H20 POWER. If it's NOT powered by water, then how come it says "H2O POWER" all over the car, Mr. Smarty Pants?
If that wasn't enough to silence the skeptics that the car uses H2O POWER, the video features a guy in a suit talking about the car. The fact that the guy talking is wearing a SUIT clearly shows that these guys are professionals, because professional people wear suits. Now, I can't tell what he's saying, because it's in Japanese. But that's not important. The fact that he is saying it in JAPANESE is the important thing. Because that PROVES that he is Japanese! And everyone knows that Japanese people are very, very smart. To top it all off, the video is narrated by a woman with a sophisticated-sounding British accent. The same kind of sophisticated British accent you will hear on the BBC, one of the world's most reliable news organizations. You can't argue with information that is presented with a sophisticated sounding foreign accent.
Haiku points! (Score:4, Funny)
It breaks the laws of physics
Investor fraud aye
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:2, Funny)
> perpetual motion machine and the Patent Office
> stopped bothering to examine perpetual motion
> applications decades ago.
The US Patent office has already issued approximately 20 patents related to water powered cars. That big automakers are in bed with big oil and still cranking out gasoline powered cars is where the real scam and scandal is.
Read 'em and weep, buddy.
US Patents issued to Stanley Meyer:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&Query=IN%2F%22Meyer%2C+Stanley%22 [uspto.gov]
US Patents issued to Dennis Klein:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&Query=IN%2F%22Klein%2C+Dennis%22 [uspto.gov]
Obviously Genepax also knows something you don't.
Suzanne.
I'm at http://www.suzcorner.com/ [suzcorner.com]
A limerick (Score:5, Funny)
that seemed like a zero-point scam.
Then slashdot derived
that the H2O drive
got more energy out than you can.
Re:Whats the problem.... (Score:1, Funny)
"New Genepax fuel-cell technology. Efficient transportation at 3 Jesus-Power."
Haiku (Score:5, Funny)
No smoking near the ocean
The world could explode
Re:Screw water (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Whats the problem.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Screw water (Score:4, Funny)
The credulous reporter is from the leading global news organisation, Reuters. She is a smart girl.
Smart guy meets smart girl, and both produce a smart story.
Whom shall I believe, smart guy and positive story on Reuters, done by a smart reporter; or some geek on 'News for nerds, stuff that matters'? Do you even own a suit?
Temptations, temptations
Re:Haiku (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Screw water haiku (Score:3, Funny)
haiku nazis will correct
fix and try again