water engine

[lp115lp]

Anyone ever heard of someone fueling their car with water via some sort of 'reactor' which turns the water into hydrogen and oxygen vapours?

I'd seen a video tape which purports to show a couple of oveseas (non-USA) drivers who'd done this but I've no knowledge of anyone here.

It seemed simple enough - 2 metal plates suspended in vessel filled with water, having a vented tube to the carburator intake and a fill tube. They attached the plates to the battery (intermittantly) to make the water start to foam.

Anyone here tried this? What happened?

[boschmann]

I've seen water injection where the car is running off gas & water is metred in as a performance aid. If someone ever figures how to run a car off water alone they'd be famous, as splitting water into hydrogen & oxygen takes more energy than you get by burning the hydrogen & we haven't mastered fusion reactors.