Eli5: Why do automobiles operate with diesel or petrol but not with water?
In: Physics
As much as I know about combustion engines and hydrogen, I have encountered so many different reasons as to why they never took off.
So I’m following to see if there is a proper answer. Fingers crossed.
Water is not flammable. In order to have combustion, you need a fuel source, oxygen and an ignition source. Water is none of them.
Because water is not a fuel source. You can use the hydrogen and oxygen that water is composed of as a fuel source, but it takes just as much energy to split the molecule using electrolysis as you get out of it when you burn the hydrogen and oxygen back together in to water.
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