Here is a question which seems to be a no-brainer at first glance. Lets say you have a battery pack capable of giving a light automobile a 40 mile range, like the Chevy Volt - using an electric 100+ kW electric motor.
Poser: is there any conceivable advantage in NOT using the electric motor as the source of power? - i.e. - instead of the electric motor, convert a small piston engine of same 100+ kW power - but which has been converted to use injected water as the fuel, and the electric power is used to produce arcing which explodes the water, turning the engine. I predict that upwards to 99% of vorticians will say: No way Jose', this is a foolish waste, because the electric motor is probably 90% efficient and the piston engine is going to have much more frictional losses, etc. so why bother? Does the following (controversial) information change things?: http://waterfuel.t35.com/water_explosion.html Note: George Hathaway, who posts here on occasion, and is mentioned in the site above, has apparently recanted most of that information. Is that the final word on this possibility, and/or -- is it worth an effort to prototype it to find out, given that the cost to do so is probably not excessive ? Jones
