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Can someone explain details of this seawater car ?

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I really wish you hadn't posted a link to that rag :)

Here is a report from a slightly more reputable news source: http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20161010-driving-the-saltwater-sports-car

And: https://www.theskepticsguide.org/salt-water-car-not-so-fast

Here is the Wikipedia age on the technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoFlowcell

Sounds rather implausible (and the "saltwater" claim of the Daily Scum is just stupid).

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Thanks. 

OK, not salty water, but a chemicals soup.  If it works, and if creating the soup does not take more energy to produce than it delivers.  And refills would mean also collection of the  'spent' soup.

I would guess that if such technology was developed, the first products would be not in a vehicle but standalone generators...:huh:

"Conservation of energy":  you can't get energy out of something that does not already have energy already in it.  Oil, and gasoline, have energy "trapped" in its molecules.  So does wood or anything that burns.  Water, even seawater, does not.  As for a "chemical soup", isn't that what oil is?

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This company is such a hoax. The gullible people who invest in NanoFlowcell are also likely to buy volcano insurance in Florida.

None of the prototipes work or work as advertised. But ofc it doesn't stop the media to deify their bs. :( 

 

On 9/14/2018 at 8:41 PM, Externet said:

Thanks. 

OK, not salty water, but a chemicals soup.  If it works, and if creating the soup does not take more energy to produce than it delivers.  And refills would mean also collection of the  'spent' soup.

Who is claiming it produces more energy that it takes to produce?  That's really not an expected attribute of a battery.

It's got "Con" written all over it. 

Five times the power to weight ratio of lithium Ion???   A modest little claim. :lol:

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