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Last
year (in the February
2002 Spirit of Ma'at) we brought you a set of plans for
converting an ordinary car to run on water. These plans were sent to us
anonymously, but we had them checked out by scientists and they seemed to
be using a similar technology to one we knew was working. We reported
about further developments in this area last December in an article
titled Water
Karma.
Believing that the "believability gap" is a potent force
preventing the realization of using water as fuel, we have continued to
research other technological solutions. Two of these — both based upon
inventions by the same company — are reported below. One of the reports
includes footage
of Drunvalo attending a live demonstration, in a format that you can
watch on your computer.
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President Bush has made a challenge to the American people to begin running
our cars on hydrogen as soon as possible, and has allocated over one
billion dollars for research to find out how to do that.
In a suburb of Toronto,
Canada, a
small company called Rothman Technologies, Inc., has in fact discovered not
one but two viable methods for breaking down ordinary water into hydrogen
and oxygen. Neither method involves the need to spend a billion dollars.
They are simple answers. The existing engines in our automobiles could work
with these systems with very little alteration and no need for an external
support infrastructure like the one now provided by gas stations, and which
would be required by fuel-cell technology.
To understand how these water-fuel systems work, it helps to begin by
realizing that ordinary water is actually a "battery" containing
vast amounts of energy. Water is H2O — two
parts hydrogen combined with one part oxygen. And, as President Bush says,
hydrogen is an excellent fuel.
The amount of energy in the water molecule is thus vast, and has absolutely
nothing to do with the amount of energy it takes to break down that
molecule. This is an extremely important point, as so many people — even
scientists — are unclear on this concept. And yet if we can find an
economical means to break down the water molecule, our energy problems are
over.
Instant Hydrogen Gas
The first process shown to us by Rothman Technologies uses water, salt, and
an extremely inexpensive metal alloy. The gas that results from this process
is pure hydrogen, a fuel that burns without the need for external oxygen —
and gives off no pollution whatsoever.
The primary owner of Rothman Technologies is a man who holds about fifty
Patents Pending on a variety of mechanical devices, chemical compounds,
novelties, and fuels. But it is his invention for using a metal alloy to
break down the water molecule that is of interest to us here.
In behalf of Spirit of Ma'at, I visited Rothman Technologies last
February (2003) in order to witness first-hand what several people had told
us was true: This company was running a 12-horsepower, gasoline-powered
electrical generator using water as "fuel." The generator was a
gasoline combustion engine exactly like the one in your car.
 They
admitted that the system was crude and would have to be improved.
Nonetheless, they could and actually did show us a gasoline engine running
on water (click on pictures for larger versions).
This engine was mounted on a lab bench in a garage area, with the door open
for ventilation. On the floor were thirteen half-gallon containers linked
together with tubes, all connected to a central, larger tube that ran
directly to the carburetor of the motor.
 In the
containers was ordinary water plus an electrolyte (i.e., some type of
salt).
When a piece of metal alloy was dropped into the electrolyte mixture,
hydrogen instantly began to form at an amazing rate. The hydrogen gas
traveled to a main tube, and from there straight to the carburetor. (See note.)
A company representative pulled a rope to start the motor, and after a
couple of tries, the motor caught and continued running. We watched the
motor run for twenty minutes or so (it was really cold, with the doors open
in the Toronto January winter, so we decided that twenty minutes was enough
"proof of concept"). This engine, using water and salt as the
primary fuel, and metal alloy as a catalyst, was definitely running!
According to the company's representative, this metal alloy is so
inexpensive that an engine can run for four hours on a piece that would
cost about half a cent (Canadian).
It is also noteworthy that, according to the man we spoke with, seawater
could be used directly as the primary fuel, thus eliminating the need for
added salt.
I was there with Michael Ballin, who works with Rolling Arts TV, a
television channel in Los Angeles
that supports the Antique, Hot Rod, and Racing Car industry and sees
automobiles as an art form. So the video footage that you will be able to
watch (see link
at the end of this article) was shot by Michael for his company.
Another Amazing Breakthrough
Rothman Technologies, Inc., also has another method of converting water
to fuel. It's called electrolysis. This method breaks water down into
Brown's gas, which also is a perfect fuel for gasoline engines, and, with
one exceptional change, it is similar to the method we featured in this
webzine last year (see The Water Car,
and Convert
Your Car to Run on Water, plus my December 2002 update to both of these
articles, Water
Karma).
Why is Brown's gas a better fuel than pure hydrogen? Here is our opinion.
The environment is experiencing tremendous problems at the moment, and one
of the most serious of these is that we are losing our oxygen. The oxygen
content of the air is becoming so low that it threatens our very existence
in some areas. The normal oxygen content of our air is 21 percent. But in
some places it is only a fraction of that! In Tokyo, Japan,
for example, the oxygen content of the air has dipped to 6 or 7 percent. If
it reaches 5 percent, people will begin to die. Tokyo has even put oxygen disbursement
centers on its street corners, so that people can get emergency oxygen if
they need it.
Eventually, if something is not done, this low-oxygen situation will affect
each and every one of us.
Brown's gas, created through an electrolytic process, actually may
contribute oxygen to the air supply, rather than leaving it the same
(as with fuel cells and pure hydrogen), or consuming it (as with fossil
fuels). It is for this reason that we feel it will be the future technology
of choice for running our vehicles.
Comparing the Technologies
To be complete, before we explain Rothman Technologies' innovation in
creating Brown's gas from water, let's look at all three types of
hydrogen-fuel solutions — fuel cells, pure hydrogen, and Brown's gas — and
see how they work relative to oxygen production or consumption:
Fuel Cells: This method uses oxygen from the atmosphere to complete
the burning of the hydrogen in the fuel cell. What comes out of the tail
pipe is oxygen and water vapor, but the oxygen originally came from the
atmosphere, not from the fuel. And so the use of fuel cells neither takes
away nor contributes to the oxygen content of the air.
Hydrogen: This fuel is complete in itself. It does not need oxygen
from the atmosphere to burn, which is an improvement over fossil fuels in
saving the oxygen in our air supply. In fact, when hydrogen burns
perfectly, nothing at all comes out of the tail pipe. If salt and metal
alloy are used to create hydrogen, then there will be residues of that in
the exhaust, but hydrogen fuel does not contribute oxygen to the
atmosphere.
Brown's gas: This is the most perfect fuel of all for running our
vehicles. Like pure hydrogen, it is made from water, i.e., hydrogen and
oxygen, but it burns in the combustion engine so that, depending on the
setup, it may actually release oxygen into the atmosphere. In that case,
what comes out of the tail pipe is oxygen and water vapor, just as with
fuel cells; but the oxygen comes from the water that's being used to create
the Brown's gas fuel. So burning Brown's gas as fuel can add oxygen to the
air and thus increase the oxygen content of our atmosphere.
Whenever we are burning Brown's gas in our vehicles, we can be at the same
time contributing to the solution of a very dangerous environmental
problem.
From this point of view, Brown's gas would be the ideal automotive fuel of
the future.
A New Brown's Gas Technology
The main problem with most of the Brown's gas systems we have seen so far
is that, although they work, they do not seem to generate enough hydrogen
to supply a piston engine under normal road conditions. Rothman's
exceptional change has to do with the use of a special electrolysis
technology.
In normal electrolytic processes, the electrolysis unit is just sitting in
water, and it produces a specific amount of Brown's gas.
But the Rothman Technologies invention involves an electrolysis unit that
increases the Brown's gas production by an order of magnitude. (For the
scientists among our audience, you read that correctly: The Rothman
Technologies system literally creates ten times more Brown's gas than
normal electrolysis systems do.)
 The company
found that in the type of specialized electrolysis they have invented, the
Brown's gas and the water are mixed together. A milky-white substances
comes out the end of the Rothman electrolysis device and goes from there
into a unit that separates the Brown's gas from the water. The Brown's gas
travels to the motor to run the engine, and the water is then recycled back
to the electrolysis device to be re-used.
This invention, on which Rothman Technologies, Inc., has
a Patent Pending, is possibly the most important discovery that's ever been
made in electrolysis technology. Increasing the output of electrolysis by
ten times finally gives sufficient breakdown of the water to Brown's gas to
actually run a normal car engine, and would seem to make electrolysis
systems the method of choice for the future.
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To the inventors among our
readers
Now you know that it is absolutely
possible, and not just a crazy fantasy, to run a car on water. You have
watched the "proof of concept" and seen it for yourself.
And so, my friends, I now wish you
luck in the world's race to find a way to save ourselves from ourselves.
Whoever finally produces the first viable watercar will solve our energy
problems once and for all and will go down in history as a hero.
It could be you.
 Note:
In order to speed up the process for demonstration purposes, a salt other
than sodium chloride was used, but in practice normal table-salt added to
water, or sea water, would probably be the cheapest alternatives. In any
case, the type of electrolyte used is not important to the overall
"proof of concept" that water can be broken down to run a
combustion engine.
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