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Skeptoid #87: Water: Alternative Fuel of the Future?

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2008

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Cranks love to make the claim on YouTube, but you cannot run your car on water.

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0:00.0

Our human nature means we're all always on the hunt for magically easy solutions to

0:08.8

difficult problems.

0:10.6

And so we're often preconditions to want to believe any new such claim we come across.

0:16.3

One of these is the idea that you can run your car using nothing but regular tap water

0:21.0

as a fuel, a miracle which the government supposedly suppresses to keep us all spending

0:27.2

more money.

0:28.8

Because water really, a high energy, fuel, we're going to find out, right now, unskeptoid.

0:36.0

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0:47.6

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0:51.4

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0:55.3

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0:58.9

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1:00.6

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1:01.8

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1:03.8

Please visit survey.prx.org slash scaptoid to take the survey today.

1:11.0

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1:18.8

Thanks.

1:24.5

We're listening to scaptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from scaptoid.com.

1:29.3

Water, alternative fuel of the future?

1:33.4

Today we're going to pour a few drops of water into our car's fuel tank and triple our

1:37.8

mileage.

1:38.8

We're going to electrolyze hydrogen from our municipal water supply and run our house.

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