Water Powered Auto Rickshaw [Innovation]
Students from RV College of Engineering, Bangalore have developed an inexpensive and simple retro-fit kit for auto rickshaws, that can simply power an auto rickshaw from the most abundant commodity in the world, i.e. water!
The kit performs hydrogen enhancement of conventional fossil fuel, produces hydrogen and oxygen which is the most necessary element for combustion and can be customized as per the needs of the driver.
Supported by the college trust and Bosch India, the estimated price for the kit would be around Rs. 4,000 (source).
This is innovation at it’s best – just that we hope ’somebody’ takes the idea commercially and ideas like these do not end up just as a student project.
What’s your opinion on this kit? How feasible is this idea commercially?
Earlier, RVCE Students built a super fuel efficient car with mileage of Rs. 200Km/L.
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Take one: Sounds too exciting to be real.
Take two: water is not as abundant as it seems. Especially near human habitat.
Take three: Is it the same college that brought a solar powered car (err cycle sometime back?)
U too Ashish?
Rs 4,000/- for 20% efficiency … Ambani’s would bet a Trillion on that
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Another half-backed information and another idiotic article by rediff.
If it could run on salt water, then I would say its a useful, because that is abundant at the coastal towns at least.
But otherwise, commercializing this could be detrimental to the already fast disappearing water levels around the country. I can picture Rikshaw drivers crowding around water pumps and arguing with local farmers/families on who gets the last drop for the month.
On the flip-side this could be the push that will finally make water more expensive and therefore force people to stop wasting it and instead consere every drop of it.
[quote] commercializing this could be detrimental to the already fast disappearing water levels [/quote]
Well! That’s atleast better than the even faster depleting oil and gas levels. No?!?
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This seems to be running by using a fuel cell battery being supplied by Bosch. Fuel Cell is well known to the scientific world, it uses water , methanol or ethanol as fuel. It is many times more efficient than Internal Combustion Engine. But the limiting factor is its cost, Believe me it is very very expansive, because it uses catalyst that is made of platinum. It also uses nanotechnology as technology for producing the catalysts and thus the production cost is very high. Scientists all over the world are trying to bring down the cost of fuel cell. When there will be a cost effective fuel cell then all the energy problem will be solved. Till then let us burn the good old petrol.
Grow up , guys!!!
OLD TECHNOLOGY SHAMELESSLY COPIED AND CLAIMED AS OWN INVENTION !!
Google “yahoo hydroxy watercar HHO youtube”, you’ll see thousands using the same water splitters developing hydrogen which is mixed with petrol to get the extra boost. There are also many more DIY (DoItYourself)groups all over the internet!!! Youtube has plenty of these cars and other vehicles along with how to do tutorial videos.
Also this HHO/ Hydroxy technology is commercially available as a kit from 4k to 10k in Bangalore , Coimbatore etc., where people are fitting them from Autos to Skodas. Every Tom Dick & Harry is making these Kits in India and abroad for years.
These are just ‘gimmick’ news making stuff by the so called ‘top’ colleges like RVCE, PESIT, MSRIT , every year. All they do is buy a ready KIT , assemble it and claim that THEY invented it!!!! …without crediting the original inventors :-X
…and to see that they have successfully “fooled” big scientific giants like IISc, Bosch…….
Where are the scientists and their brains there???!!!!! dont they know a copied technology when it is ALL OVER the Internet???
Shame!!!
Google ” water auto ” ….. there are 106,000,000 pages out there!!
http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=water+auto&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enIN321IN321&ie=UTF-8
this is really amazing…keep it up and keep posting..