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Conventional science dictates that a car cannot "run on water" because, unlike petroleum or vegetable oils, water contains no innate energy that can be liberated through "burning".

In order for water to be "burned", it must first be split into Hydrogen and Oxygen, the atomic components of H2O. In a ratio of 2 to 1, Hydrogen and Oxygen will burn with one of the best energy payoffs on the periodic table and will thus provide enough force to, say, run a car.

However, according to the law of conservation of energy, the amount of energy that must be used to first split the water into Oxygen and Hydrogen is at least as large as the amount of energy that can be gained by burning it to produce force.

According to theory, then, it would be more efficient to put whatever energy you are using to break the water to use running the car directly, because nothing is gained by splitting and then burning the water (and, indeed, something should be lost due to inefficiency).

However, there are many accounts of cars or other engines being "run on water", typically by doing just that: breaking and then recombining hydrogen and oxygen in reaction chambers and the cylinders of the engine. Although physics does not seem to allow this to occur, those claiming this effect claim that they have driven in these cars for years adding nothing but water to the engine.

With regard to the law of conservation of energy, it is possible that whatever process being used to power these engines is accidentally stumbling upon some way to exploit ambient energy, in a way not known or measurable at present.

It is also possible that devices such as water-cars and Searl Effect Generators represent an affront to accepted science, and if they turn out to be real and functional violations of our current model of physics, then a re-evaluation of physics will be required.

Unfortunately for those desiring a resolution, in the past and the present any challenges to physics as it is understood today are simply discarded, rather than being actually scrutinised.

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