The "Water Fueled Car"

[--Pete]

Hi,

Unless atomic theory has completely changed in the three weeks i've been out of school, Hydrogen is completely incapable of making two bonds. Sounds like a bunch of crap to me, or just some guy trying to get published (cold fusion, anyone). Or just a misleading name of something else.
Edit: Ah, Occhi beat me to it. Cheers.

Yes, but there are resonances that can be formed where an electron 'is' shared among multiple atoms. Actually, that classical description is misleading, but a more correct description gets too involved. Some of the resonances can be long lived, most aren't. AFAIK, none of them are stable. So a tank full of HHO (assuming it can even exist) could decide to revert back to H2O (say in a chain triggered by one or more HHO's spontaneously converting) and lead to a nice explosion. Makes the Pinto station wagon gas tank look safe by comparison;)

And, yes, Occhi did indeed supply a good demythification. But the first and second laws of thermodynamics beat him to the punch :lol:

--Pete