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A Pakistani engineer has built a car that runs on water..!

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ankit.kumar010203
ankit.kumar010203 Original post #1
Jul 29, 2012 at 6:37 PM
Breaking news---

a pakistani engineer has built a car that runs on water, a feat that left onlookers astounded.

Engineer waqar ahmad drove his car using water as fuel thursday during a demonstration for parliamentarians, scientists and students, dawn reported from this pakistan capital.


He said cars could be driven by a system fuelled by water instead of petrol or cng.

The onlookers were taken aback when they saw it and a cabinet sub-committee lauded the 'water fuel kit project'.

Religious affairs minister syed khurshid ahmad shah, who heads the panel, said the engineer would have their full support.

The media report explained that the water fuelling system is a technology in which 'hydrogen bonding' with distilled water produces hydrogen gas to run the car.

Ahmad had earlier told shah about the unique project and it was taken to the federal cabinet which asked its sub-committee to discuss it.

During the demonstration, shah himself drove the car.

The minister said that ahmad would be given complete security and the formula would be kept secure.

Prime minister raja pervez ashraf and finance minister hafeez shaikh value the project, he said.

"we own this project and are committed to successfully completing it," he was quoted as saying. - ians
Desmond
Desmond #2
Jul 29, 2012 at 7:22 PM
Sources or it didn't happen.

Please provide the link to where you got this from.
Anorion
Anorion #3
Jul 29, 2012 at 7:28 PM
lol, even if he did do it, what's the big deal? probably gives pathetic mileage, and maybe you have to turn it on and wait patiently like a water heater and steam powered cars were around before fossil fuel cars
A
Jul 29, 2012 at 8:23 PM
^^ Atleast give him some credit people. He has achieved something atleast. No need to be rude just because he is from "Pakistan" :)
rider
rider #5
Jul 29, 2012 at 8:26 PM
googled it he copied this news from yahoo news

LINK
Faun
Faun #6
Jul 29, 2012 at 8:30 PM
hahaha...it's like what Russian's did for space...used pencil...isn't it ? :lol:
aaruni
aaruni #8
Jul 29, 2012 at 8:43 PM
May not be true: Pakistani daily not so sure about car running on water - Yahoo! News India
A
adi007 #9
Jul 29, 2012 at 11:06 PM
Its not new ,, I read the same achievement many years ago using the concept of separation of Hydrogen and using it,,
Its still in nascent phase though
rider
rider #10
Jul 29, 2012 at 11:21 PM
Its not new ,, I read the same achievement many years ago using the concept of separation of Hydrogen and using it,,
Its still in nascent phase though

Yea! Honda is working their a** off.
cute.bandar
Jul 29, 2012 at 11:24 PM
Water-fuelled car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
RCuber
RCuber #12
Jul 29, 2012 at 11:41 PM
is there any car which runs on urine? we already have cow dung powered gas...
Anorion
Anorion #13
Jul 30, 2012 at 12:22 AM
omg no one pointed it out, this runs on HYRDOGEN GAS, this is not a car, this is a bomb!!!
d6bmg
d6bmg #14
Jul 30, 2012 at 12:27 AM
May not be true: Pakistani daily not so sure about car running on water - Yahoo! News India

Now that's a twist. :p
Saahib
Saahib #16
Jul 30, 2012 at 11:57 AM
There is not much details given about this project, I hope they have created some new stuff. Btw, if its running on water then it can't run on hydrogen as converting water to hydrogen is a cumbersome process which can't take place inside a car itself.
d3p
d3p #17
Jul 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Damn man....Now Water gonna be Zu Teur [So Costly] than Gasoline / Diesel / LPG or CNG....


Dooms day is not far away...
pranav0091
Jul 30, 2012 at 12:38 PM
A car running on hydrogen is not a car running on water. There's a world of difference.

And if the hydrolysis takes place within the car itself, then its not sustainable without an external source of energy for long.
S
Jul 30, 2012 at 12:45 PM
i think they must have been imported all goods from China and assembled it and get it working by themselves...

they are excited as it works :p
d6bmg
d6bmg #20
Jul 30, 2012 at 12:46 PM
^^ Technically water can't run any motor without being hydrolyzed.
pranav0091
Jul 30, 2012 at 10:45 PM
^^ Technically water can't run any motor without being hydrolyzed.
It can, actually. In the same way as dental drills can run on air :wink:
But lets not get into that.. :)
S
Jul 31, 2012 at 5:28 PM
Here is a link to the program in which he demonstrated it after demonstrating it earlier for the house of parliament and kids.
iinfi
iinfi #23
Jul 31, 2012 at 7:18 PM
pak ministers say they will fully support him .. i thought they mite pass some fatwa against him saying its against their moral values to use water for things other than its meant for...
abhinavmail1
Jul 31, 2012 at 8:13 PM
Immpossible. It is some kind of trick. Wait for some days and it get revealed. Btw northern grid is failed again
T
Jul 31, 2012 at 8:36 PM
My neighbour invented a BICYCLE that runs on air. :D
Liverpool_fan
Jul 31, 2012 at 9:31 PM
pak ministers say they will fully support him .. i thought they mite pass some fatwa against him saying its against their moral values to use water for things other than its meant for...

:lol:
GhorMaanas
Jul 31, 2012 at 10:29 PM
pak ministers say they will fully support him .. i thought they mite pass some fatwa against him saying its against their moral values to use water for things other than its meant for...

:lol:
audiophilic
Sep 29, 2012 at 3:54 PM
For those talking **** about this guy... show me what you've done! haha :-D

is there any car which runs on urine? we already have cow dung powered gas...

:D Hehe.
audiophilic
Sep 29, 2012 at 4:33 PM
Competed GTA multiple times. Beat that! :D

lol... the last thing i remember about GTA was playing in the liberty city; good old days. my graphics cards became too old to play new games! hehe :-D
A
Sep 29, 2012 at 5:27 PM
lol, even if he did do it, what's the big deal? probably gives pathetic mileage, and maybe you have to turn it on and wait patiently like a water heater and steam powered cars were around before fossil fuel cars
steam engines were powered by coal. AFAIK earliest cars had petroleum.
Nipun
Nipun #32
Sep 29, 2012 at 5:32 PM
steam engines were powered by coal. AFAIK earliest cars had petroleum.

I read/watched somewhere first cars/trucks were powered by steam/coal.
Desmond
Desmond #33
Sep 30, 2012 at 11:41 AM
I read/watched somewhere first cars/trucks were powered by steam/coal.

Yes indeed. Check this :

Stanley Motor Carriage Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Theodre
Theodre #34
Oct 5, 2012 at 10:05 PM
Honda had the concept car running on hydrogen when i was studying in 10th!!!!! Now it's been 5years!!! :D I remember the ad in the readers digest!! :)
Flash
Flash #35
Oct 5, 2012 at 11:10 PM
Running a car with water - Is this related to Steam engines, that runs on steam?

As Steam locomotive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia puts,

Water is an essential element in the operation of a steam locomotive; because as Swengel argued:
it has the highest specific heat of any common substance; that is more thermal energy is stored by heating water to a given temperature than would be stored by heating an equal mass of steel or copper to the same temperature. In addition, the property of vapourising (forming steam) stores additional energy without increasing the temperature... water is a very satisfactory medium for converting thermal energy of fuel into mechanical energy
​
Hrishi
Hrishi #36
Oct 6, 2012 at 12:09 AM
Well if this is based on using the Hydrogen , present in H20. THis is a currently not-safe enough to be commercially produced.
Maybe in future , hydrogen will eventually become the primary source of energy derived from water.However currently its still unstable.

Btw, Good to see that our neighbouring country too has some good minds and are busy in developing constructive innovations.
R
Oct 6, 2012 at 2:06 PM
The "water as a fuel" hullabaloo is just a hoax.
dalbir
dalbir #38
Oct 6, 2012 at 8:05 PM
If this news is like that they didn't use fossil fuel to run the car, i would have believed.
as they might have used human or horse power to do that.
it must be in the false column of REPLEYS BELIEVE OR NOT..............
De Cay
De Cay #39
Oct 10, 2012 at 12:42 PM
Let me get this straight.... Pak has Engineer!!!???
:shock:
Flash
Flash #40
Oct 10, 2012 at 1:03 PM
Let me get this straight.... Pak has Engineer!!!???
:shock:

Man, Give some respect to them!
Innovative/Intelligent minds wherever present, should be appreciated! :mrgreen:
aloodum
aloodum #41
Oct 10, 2012 at 2:50 PM
^^ hes been proven a con man on various forumss a long time back..basic principles of thermodynamics were violated...sheesh !
Flash
Flash #42
Oct 10, 2012 at 3:36 PM
^^ hes been proven a con man on various forumss a long time back..basic principles of thermodynamics were violated...sheesh !

In that case, a proper link should've enlightened us regarding this scam. Anyway, thanks for bringing us.
@others: read this...

Agha Waqar Ahmad deserves a medal from the people of Pakistan for his great service to the nation. In a few short days, he has exposed just how far Pakistan has fallen into the pit of ignorance and self-delusion. No practical joker could have demonstrated more dramatically the true nature of our country’s political leaders, popular TV anchors and famed scientists.

Pakistan’s most celebrated scientists were not far behind. Asked by Anchor Sharif whether a car could run only on water, nuclear hero Dr Samar Mubarakmand replied without hesitation: “jee haan, bilkul ho sakta hai” (yes, absolutely possible). For his part, Hamid Mir asked Dr AQ Khan if there was any chance of this being a fraud. The response was clear: “Main nay apnay level per investigate kiya hai aur koi fraud waraud nahi kiya hai” (I have investigated the matter and there is no fraud involved). The head of the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dr Shaukat Parvaiz, went further: “hum nay bhi iss pay kam karaya tha” (we had some work done on this too).

So, what is the problem? It’s that the laws of physics, in particular a fundamental scientific principle known as the Second Law of Thermodynamics, impose inviolable constraints. Every machine constructed anywhere uses the Second Law. This is something that I learned in my first year as a student at MIT and have taught for 40 years. No serious scientist would dream of challenging the Second Law. Agha Waqar Ahmad’s ‘water kit’, if one believes science to be right, simply cannot work. What the inventor, the ministers, the anchors and scientists claim on TV is wrong.

But this episode raises bigger questions. Scientific frauds exist in other countries, but what explains their spectacular success in Pakistan? Answer: our leaders are lost in the dark, fumbling desperately for a miracle; our media is chasing spectacle, not truth; and our great scientists care more about being important than about evidence. It is easy for them all to get away with this. As a nation, we have proven unwilling to do the hard work needed to learn to reason, to be sceptical, to demand proof, to understand even basic science. It is easier to believe the world is run by magic and conspiracies, to wish and wait for Aladin’s magic lamp. We live in the age of jahilliya.

More on: The water car fraud – The Express Tribune