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(Local6)   Jesus helps man solve energy crisis by running his car on water, getting 100 miles per OUNCE   (local6.com) divider line
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Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-04 10:12:06 AM  
I'm amazed that the writer could pack so much information and detail into this article. It's so satisfying to see a hard-hitting journalist unleashed.
 
gopher321 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-04 10:16:15 AM  
Big Oil dismissing this guy as a crackpot in 3...2...1...
 
steveurkel
2008-06-04 10:16:47 AM  
looks like he just attached a mason jar to the side of his engine.
what a lame article.
 
gopher321 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-04 10:16:55 AM  
Although, I would like to see the engine broken down and analyzed.
 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-04 10:21:48 AM  
I'm guessing this guy is about to be found sealed in an oil drum with 18 bullets lodged in his back -- and the coroner will rule it a suicide.
 
Howard Finkelstein
2008-06-04 10:27:04 AM  
"When you separate the water from the oxygen from the hydrogen, it cooks and it cooks down to a brown," Brown said. "We're not having any waste product off of it. Everything is consumed and burned."


Uh....and greenlit too.... -1 subby, this article sucks
 
Jubeebee [TotalFark]
2008-06-04 10:34:56 AM  
You're not netting energy by breaking water down to H2 and O, and then burning the hydrogen to create H2O. You don't get to break the laws of thermodynamics. Not yours.

"I've just been asking for a way, for the Lord to show me to raise money rapidly and I started to working on this idea," Brown said

And lo, Jesus sayeth, "Pitch junk science to the ignorant and easily deluded, and verily, they wilst shower thou with money."
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2008-06-04 10:46:58 AM  
FTFA: "When you separate the water from the oxygen from the hydrogen, it cooks and it cooks down to a brown," Brown said.

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docsigma
2008-06-04 10:50:41 AM  
gopher321: Big Oil dismissing assassinating this guy as a crackpot in 3...2...1...

FTFY
 
Snarfangel
2008-06-04 10:51:10 AM  
My grandfather told me a story about a man he knew who had put a second gas tank in his car. He'd pull up to a gas station and ask the attendent where the water was. He's make sure they were watching as he filled one tank (which wasn't connected to anything) with water, then throw in a couple of alka-seltzer and drive off.
 
Dr.Knockboots
2008-06-04 11:06:07 AM  
Snarfangel: My grandfather told me a story about a man he knew who had put a second gas tank in his car. He'd pull up to a gas station and ask the attendent where the water was. He's make sure they were watching as he filled one tank (which wasn't connected to anything) with water, then throw in a couple of alka-seltzer and drive off.

Why do I have a feeling that this guy is running the same scam and once he's proven to be a fraud, he'll say he was just raising awareness for gas conservation..and his church will blindly back him up.
 
ShawnDoc
2008-06-04 11:31:18 AM  
Dr.Knockboots: Why do I have a feeling that this guy is running the same scam and once he's proven to be a fraud, he'll say he was just raising awareness for gas conservation..and his church will blindly back him up.

Nah, he'll claim he was framed by Big Oil and that he's now receiving death threats.
 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-04 11:33:44 AM  
Hey, if Jesus turned water into wine, how tough can it be for Him to turn it into gasoline?
 
Jubeebee [TotalFark]
2008-06-04 11:41:58 AM  
Mr. Coffee Nerves: Hey, if Jesus turned water into wine, how tough can it be for Him to turn it into gasoline?

Hydrocarbons are a more complex molecules than ethanol. Jesus dropped 5000 level chemistry and took up oil painting during His senior year, so he never learned how to make gasoline.
 
namatad
2008-06-04 11:56:19 AM  
for the love of FSM
why does anyone print these articles
this is WORSE than hypermiling

my brain ... it's gonna splode
 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-04 11:58:44 AM  
Jubeebee: Mr. Coffee Nerves: Hey, if Jesus turned water into wine, how tough can it be for Him to turn it into gasoline?

Hydrocarbons are a more complex molecules than ethanol. Jesus dropped 5000 level chemistry and took up oil painting during His senior year, so he never learned how to make gasoline.

The goons from Big Science have clearly gotten to you!!! I bet you think pi isn't exactly 3!
 
Marley
2008-06-04 12:38:44 PM  
a small amount of gas. He said the car is getting just fuel vapor.

Ooh! My car does that too! But I was touched by His Noodly Appendage, so take THAT, Jesus!
 
dillenger69
2008-06-04 12:46:55 PM  
He needs to hook up with the guy who sucked sand into his engine to clean it.
 
Paedophile_Deluxe
2008-06-04 1:26:42 PM  
"When you separate the water from the oxygen from the hydrogen, it cooks and it cooks down to a brown," Brown said. "We're not having any waste product off of it. Everything is consumed and burned."

Wow. Apparently crackpots don't even need to sound remotely sane to get a news crew to listen to them.
 
b2theory [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-04 1:26:50 PM  
I love at the end of the video when the news anchors have their moment of banter:

Male Anchor: Why isn't this guy a millionaire? Why isn't he in Detroit working on cars?

Female Anchor: I think that is about to happen!

Proving once again that if you have quaffed hair and the IQ of toothpaste you can be an on-air personality.
 
tweekster
2008-06-04 1:32:10 PM  
What is funny is that idiots will fall for this type of old scam.

At this point these scams should not even be illegal. If you are that dumb to fall for it, well there is no stopping you, had it not been this one, you probably would have bought some magic beans instead.
 
medius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-04 1:32:12 PM  
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gopher321 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-06-04 1:32:15 PM  
Paedophile_Deluxe: "When you separate the water from the oxygen from the hydrogen, it cooks and it cooks down to a brown," Brown said. "We're not having any waste product off of it. Everything is consumed and burned."

Wow. Apparently crackpots don't even need to sound remotely sane to get a news crew to listen to them.

Sounds like he's preparing his next heroin fix actualy.
 
jebusfreak
2008-06-04 1:32:47 PM  
gopher321: Big Oil Hundreds of Farkers dismissing this guy as a crackpot in 3...2...1...

FTFY
 
seminole87
2008-06-04 1:33:51 PM  
but what if it's HOLY water!1
 
Boomhauer
2008-06-04 1:34:09 PM  
When you separate the water from the oxygen from the hydrogen...


Wait, what?
 
tacks
2008-06-04 1:34:20 PM  
Chuck Norris can get 101, and he doesn't even own a car.
 
Oznog
2008-06-04 1:34:32 PM  
Damn, reporters are stupid.

Not that this is any surprise to me, but the article's a pretty groundbreaking example.
 
api021778
2008-06-04 1:34:40 PM  
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TheGreyPiper
2008-06-04 1:35:01 PM  
Snarfangel: My grandfather told me a story about a man he knew who had put a second gas tank in his car. He'd pull up to a gas station and ask the attendent where the water was. He's make sure they were watching as he filled one tank (which wasn't connected to anything) with water, then throw in a couple of alka-seltzer and drive off.

I remember Jethro Bodine doing that to Jed's truck back 'bout 1969.

/Oops. Sorry Uncle Jed. We been running on gas. NOW I'll swap over to the water.
//Chug chug chug ghaaaaaa...
 
All_Farked_Up
2008-06-04 1:35:03 PM  
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!

/obligatory
 
SnoreCriminal
2008-06-04 1:35:30 PM  
PRAISE JESUS!

I mean, seriously - if Jesus was inspiration for this guy and this actually works.... I think I will have to stop ripping on Christians.
 
Hoopy Frood
2008-06-04 1:35:41 PM  
Wake me when they make a car run on Diet Coke and Mentos.
 
Diet Sundrop
2008-06-04 1:35:58 PM  
I'm calling shenanigans.
 
Papa Rotsy
2008-06-04 1:35:59 PM  
Reminds me of a story my high school physics teacher told us once about when he worked at a gas station (known then as "Service Stations," belt onion and all) as a kid.

Yadda yadda yadda, gasoline pills.
 
vernonFL
2008-06-04 1:36:14 PM  
So what? I have invented a way to mix gasoline with AIR in my engine!
 
Barfmaker
2008-06-04 1:36:15 PM  
gopher321: Although, I would like to see the engine broken down and analyzed.

If he's putting water in his engine the first part will happen automatically.
 
wmoonfox
2008-06-04 1:36:37 PM  
TFA: When you separate the water from the oxygen from the hydrogen, it cooks and it cooks down to a brown

Inventor, my ass... ever heard of Brown's Gas? Any money you make off of your "invention" will undoubtedly be paid out in the resulting lawsuit.
 
IdBeCrazyIf
2008-06-04 1:36:46 PM  
Definitely a scam and fraud, but the hydrogen revolution (new window) is right around the corner
 
Paedophile_Deluxe
2008-06-04 1:36:49 PM  
gopher321: Paedophile_Deluxe: "When you separate the water from the oxygen from the hydrogen, it cooks and it cooks down to a brown," Brown said. "We're not having any waste product off of it. Everything is consumed and burned."

Wow. Apparently crackpots don't even need to sound remotely sane to get a news crew to listen to them.

Sounds like he's preparing his next heroin fix actualy.

Good point. I wonder when he upgraded from a spoon to a Mason jar?
 
flamingboard
2008-06-04 1:36:54 PM  
adding hydrogen into the engine with the gasoline can increase mileage significantly. there was a company a while back making small electrolysis systems you could put in your trunk. fill it with water and it would in turn inject a small amount of hydrogen into the fuel system. the feds shut them down for some reason the i never heard anything about them ever again.
 
bdub77
2008-06-04 1:36:54 PM  
It's quite simple. His car runs on faith.
 
spacechicken170am
2008-06-04 1:36:58 PM  
So thousands of engineers around the world can't figure it out but some redneck in Florida slaps a mason jar to his intake and hits a homerun? Call me skeptical.
 
Farking Canuck
2008-06-04 1:37:10 PM  
I too cannot understand how these people get any attention. You can completely debunk this with high school science.

I think it is one of those cases where people who understand science don't consider it worth their time to debunk and then suddenly the unwashed masses are all taking it seriously.
 
tacks
2008-06-04 1:37:26 PM  
All_Farked_Up: My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!

/obligatory

fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires, post-haste!
 
Diet Sundrop
2008-06-04 1:37:41 PM  
BTW, my car is completely un-modified, and it goes hundreds of miles without consuming a single ounce - of water.
 
ckirchen1
2008-06-04 1:37:41 PM  
dillenger69: He needs to hook up with the guy who sucked sand into his engine to clean it.

I laugh everytime I read that.
 
The Malingerer
2008-06-04 1:37:53 PM  
He has a second tank for water that isn't connected to the engine. This is retarded.
 
TheGreyPiper
2008-06-04 1:38:06 PM  
Actually though, the theory is sound. You just need a resource to fill a fuel tank with hydrogen and oxygen. Kinda dangerous though.

Tho' what if you did have a generator to split the water? I know we did that in high school science without any trouble--ended up with a test tube full of the gas mix, then WHOOOSH!!! when the teacher lit it off.
 
Crackshot
2008-06-04 1:38:31 PM  
Step 1: Put water in car

Step 2: ????

Step 3: PROFIT!
 
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