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A water-powered car was depicted in a 1997 episode of Team Knight Rider (a spinoff of the original Knight Rider TV series) entitled "Oil and Water". In the episode, the vehicle explodes after a character sabotages it by putting seltzer tablets in the fuel tank. The car shown was actually a Bricklin SV-1.
The car was featured in the 2015 MotoGP season as the official safety car for the series and was released for the commercial market in 2016. [10] As per BMW example, current engine developments featuring water injection seem to concentrate on the effect of “Performance Improvement”.
However, properties of the coolant (water, oil, or air) also affect cooling. As example which compares water and oil as coolants, one gram of oil can absorb about 55% of the heat for the same rise in temperature (called the specific heat capacity). Oil has about 90% the density of water, so a given volume of oil can absorb only about 50% of the ...
The water fuel cell is a non-functional design for a "perpetual motion machine" created by Stanley Allen Meyer (August 24, 1940 – March 20, 1998). Meyer claimed that a car retrofitted with the device could use water as fuel instead of gasoline. Meyer's claims about his "Water Fuel Cell" and the car that it powered were found to be fraudulent ...
More simply they may be oil-water coolers, where an oil pipe is inserted inside the water radiator. Though the water is hotter than the ambient air, its higher thermal conductivity offers comparable cooling (within limits) from a less complex and thus cheaper and more reliable [citation needed] oil cooler. Less commonly, power steering fluid ...
Dingle claimed that his invention splits hydrogen from water in an onboard water tank, [2] and does not produce any carbon emissions. However, he never revealed the secret to his invention. [ 3 ] In an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer , Dingel said that he would be willing to reveal the secret of his invention if the buyer would ...
Idaho Power shared a video on Facebook depicting how a water bottle can potentially start a fire in a car on a sunny summer day. The harrowing footage has accrued more than 12,000 views and over ...
Oil has a higher boiling point than water, so it can be used to cool items at a temperature of 100 °C or higher. However, pressurised water-cooling may also exceed 100 °C. Oil is an electrical insulator, thus it can be used inside of or in direct contact with electrical equipment such as in transformers.