Okay, so Reuters ran a story about a Japanese car called Genepax that supposedly runs totally on water. Now, every few years when gas prices get high, these kinds of stories surface.

The Stanley Meyers water car (dune buggy) was found to be a fraud by the state of Ohio before he died of an aneurism, but claiming he had been poisoned. The public is fascinated with the theoretical water car that violates the laws of thermodynamics.

People somehow want a perpetual motion machine and the idealism of free energy for all. While this is a great idealistic thought, the realities are more mundane.

The reality is that the makers of Genepax have made a claim and not given us enough information about the vehicle to verify or debunk this claim. What is for sure is that this Genepax water car cannot run infinitely just by filling it with H2O.

Some have theorized the Genepax contains a fuel cell or reverse fuel cell. Others save it has an HHO generator. Others say it is an electric car with an enormous bank of batteries to split the water. And, yet others claim the Japanese water car uses a chemical reactant with the water to create hydrogen to run the vehicle. If it uses some sort of metal or chemical reactant this will deteriorate over time and must be considered part of the fuel that drives the car.

There are of course legitimate hydrogen gas savers that one can use to put one one’s gasoline-powered car. But, the Genepax is not claiming this. It’s makers are claiming miracles.