Titled:   Car Powered By Water A Reality

Along Florida's Gulf Coast, water is everywhere. From the bay to the beach to the town of Clearwater, that is where we found Denny Klein. A man driven by water, literally.

Klein has invented the world's first water powered car. It runs on what he calls "Aquygen." Aquygen is water or H₂O, broken down and turned into HHO gas, something scientists once thought impossible.

"Any PhD or library, they say you can't mix hydrogen and oxygen. And still to this day we get a lot of people who don't believe us because that's what they were taught," Klein said.

But people are quickly learning Klein and his car are for real.

Klein says his design will retrofit any piston engine.

An economic development team from the county and local government TV got a demonstration while we were there.

Klein says he initially developed Aquygen to create a safer, less polluting blowtorch. Klein realized Aquygen would clean up car emissions as well. The only thing that would come out of the tailpipe was water.

Soon, his vision became a reality.

Like most alternative fuel cars, the prototype is actually a hybrid. It runs on a gas and Aquygen mixture. Whenever you're ready, you flip the switch and the Aquygen kicks in.

The result is up to a 50 percent jump in gas mileage. Klein's Ford Escort prototype gets 384 miles on a tank of gas. 576 miles with a little Aquygen mixed in.

Hmmm.. All those years of Chemistry, covalent bonding, memorizing s, p & d orbitals, molecular behaviour under stimulation and I never once heard of HHO.

OK - I can see using waste energy, from the cooling system or exhaust system being used to do useful work (such as in a turbo) which could possibly take water and do something to it that would make combustion more efficient. Water injection used to be used to increase cylinder pressure in WW2 fighters - it's almost uncompressible. And even in modern cars, EGR valves introduce lower temp exhaust gases straight into the combustion system to keep down temperatures to improve emissions.

So I can believe that maybe the introduction of "free" steam may give an added efficiency of the engine.

But Aquygen? HHO?

Maybe I'm one of the scientists / chemists that still thinks this is impossible.

Chance of success in engine efficiency improvement ~ 25%

Chance of Aquygen being real <1%