GENEPAX WATER POWERED CAR FROM

JAPAN
Today, both oil and gas supply are in scarcity and they cost too much. It is
high time we changed our lifestyles, our finances and even our jobs. Most
bosses do not care to understand the fact that it costs gas or oil to come
to work and back. Most bosses are not going to give you a raise to cover
that cost, and most of them are in the same boat as you are. However,
there is still something that can be done about this.

All over the world people have been converting their cars so that they can
run on water or any other alternative sources of energy. In fact, apart
from those cars that have been converted to using running h2o as a
source of fuel, there are also many gas water hybrid vehicles being
developed which require only 4 ounces of the mixture to travel 100 miles.
These cars are winning the fight against high gas and oil prices.
Converting your car to run on HHO is a smart move in today’s world as it
does not even release any emission.

The Japanese company, Genepax Co. Ltd., has unveiled a prototype of an

eco-friendly car in Osaka that runs only on water and air. The car is
powered by Genepax's 300W fuel cell system “Water Energy System”
(WES) which only uses a liter of water to keep the car running at a speed
of 80 km/h.

Unlike the direct methanol fuel cell system (DMFC), which uses methanol
as a fuel, the new system does not emit CO2. In addition, it is expected to
have a longer life because catalyst degradation caused by CO does not
occur on the fuel electrode side.

The company says the system uses a "membrane electrode assembly"

(MEA) which contains a material capable of breaking down water into
hydrogen and oxygen through a chemical reaction. Moreover, the MEA
requires no special catalysts, and the required amount of rare metals such
as platinum is almost the same as that of existing systems.
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.

However, it would still use more energy than a gasoline engine since you
have to generate electrical energy to break down water into Hydrogen
and Oxygen and it takes substantially more energy than you get out of it!

In reality, the only aspect of a hybrid vehicle, for instance, is that you
recover some of the wasted energy when you break the molecules. If it
wasn’t for that aspect, the purely electrical part of the vehicle would be
less efficient than a gas only design since any power used to charge the
hybrid battery, and also power its electric motor comes from gasoline. The
conversion from a gas engine, to mechanical energy involves the process
of using gas for running a generator in order to produce electricity which
in turn runs an electric motor which converts the electricity back to
mechanical energy. Hence, this is much less efficient than directly
converting the gasoline to mechanical energy in one step. What makes
this process work is the ability to store and re-use a percentage of the
energy that was used to accelerate your car to generate speed and only
slow down or stop at an intersection or traffic light. In the hybrid, some of
that is recovered in the braking process.

If one could find another way to directly store the wasted momentum
without reprocessing it so many times, you would really have something
super efficient.

Although the production cost of this car is currently about ¥2,000,000

(US$18,522), it can be reduced to ¥500,000 or lower if the company
succeeds in mass production. The company believes that its fuel cell
system can compete with residential solar cell systems if the cost can be
reduced to this level.

In the future, the company aims to collaborate with Japanese

manufacturers to mass produce it and intends to provide 1kw-class
generation systems for use in electric vehicles and houses. Instead of
driving electric vehicles with this system alone, the company expects to
use it as a generator to charge the secondary battery used in electric
vehicles.