H-2-O!! June 17, 2009
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Well, the day that all science fiction fans have been waiting for has finally arrived. Our lives are never going to be the same again. Check this out: 
http://tinyurl.com/lcjwuo
For those of you too lazy to click on the link, the story is that some engineering students from Bangalore have developed a technique that boosts the mileage of a petrol-driven vehicle by up to 25% by adding water! Well, not exactly ‘adding’ water to the fuel, but by some weird contraption that splits the water into it’s constituent hydrogen and oxygen. You breathe the oxygen and the hydrogen is burnt as a clean fuel.
On paper, it looks like a very feasible idea, doesn’t it? People have been doing research on this for decades, and now, a few kids who haven’t got a job due to the recession came up with this? Hats off, I say!
According to one of them, they are now focusing on how to modify this ‘hydrogen-cell’ so that an internal combustion engine can be totally replaced and vehicles can run on water instead. 100% water. Hmmm…
I thought about it for a while (4 seconds) and came up with a few scenarios that are possible if this were to happen for real. After reading this, I’m sure you’ll join me in urging these kids to back off and leave things as they are and not upset the delicate (economy) balance of the world.
So, in the future, if these kids master the art of making a vehicle run on water:
- The world economy will collapse because most of the money floating around these days is oil money.
- No one would need petrol or diesel or LPG anymore. Everything that works with a fossil fuel will be replaced by ‘Water-Cells’.
- Internal combustion engines will become obsolete and all the existing vehicles in the world (close to a few billion, maybe) will become pieces of art, overnight.
- The price of water will skyrocket – gone will be the days when people would spare a glass of water for a thirsty stranger. They’d rather sell the stranger their stock of petrol!
- Religious Hindu fanatics will claim that they knew ‘Water’ was holy all along and that they warned us of the day when the whole world will doubly dependent on water.
- Physical exercise will be abolished as we tend to drink more water after.
- Water will be replaced by alcoholic drinks on dinner tables.
- Speaking of alcoholic drinks, they won’t last very long because they contain in major parts, water.
- When it rains, people would kill their neighbors to cover a larger area of rain-water-harvesting- apparatus.
- Pretty soon, everyone would stop moving and remain at inertia to conserve body fluids and reduce the amount of water intake.
- People who sweat will be stoned to death and their body’s water drained before burying/burning.
- Inactivity and insufficient water intake will soon result in severe health issues in everyone – people would die and no one would care. IV fluids will be nothing more than a picture in the book.
- The Earth will go through a few ice ages and evolution would happen again, when some creepy caveman discovers fire by rubbing two stones together.
Do you want this to be the fate of the world? Don’t even dare to go there! Stop your research immediately!
PS: On the other hand, there will be a lot less pollution, so we won’t die of global warming after all.
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Mujhe pyaas lagi hai.. will have some H2O to drink and come back again to comment
..imagine the Cauvery dispute.. jeez we better block all the water from getting into TN
People who work in oil industry will start pissing factories where all people have to do is piss and fill barrels of it. It will be refined to get pure water and urea each of which will be sold at sky high prices. And if the vehicle runs out of “fuel” I can piss in it for god’s sake I can even get a dog to piss it it. They love pissing on cars don’t they =D
LOL, the Nikhil we all missed is back !!! and did you notice the number of points you had put there?? its 13 buddy !!! Probably, this is how the world is going to end
LOL that last one positive point u mentioned in italics is reason enuff to go ahead with it!
plus, on the contrary, the already existing water which comes when ice-bergs melt thanks to global warming…. can be used for this, so as to stop flooding the coastal areas. and the remaining ice-bergs wont melt coz there is no more global warming becoz we r using this as fuel. howzzat?
lol
There is water scarcity in lot of places in the world. Using water as Fuel will be a stupid idea! We are all better off walking I guess!
Water water everywhere, not a drop to drink and hee are some techies who are ready to evaporate those drops also.
But autheticity of their claim needs to be checked before congratulating or abandning them fr doing such John Galt like experiments. Atlas will really be shrugged, if it is true.
what about some body water recycling!
LOL LOL and more LOL … I mean hats off to you man to come up with something like this … All these deep thoughts can come from a blessed guy like you sure enough LOL … And NO I do not want our existing world to go on this path
Awesome post buddy…. keep em coming
I somehow believe that many technologies which can change things are already been invented.
The governments are just holding them back because the moment they enter the market, everything would collapse.
HAHAHAHA – People who sweat will be stoned to death and their body’s water drained before burying/burning…no gym for me!!!
uh-oh I have super-active sweat glands , and I dont want to be stoned to death . . . Them kids should be kidbapped or given a boring , sloggable IT job . . .
With the already existing scarcity of water and no rains in Bombay sooo far…I am sure this is not a really good idea for now!!!
wow! I never really thought about water as an alternative to fuel from this perspective. Awesome post!!
I meant alternative to petrol
Hahahah …lol @ people who sweat alot…..Gud one Niks….
haha.
oops .. first, I thought its another mirrorcracked joke LOL …
“People who sweat will be stoned to death”… hahahahahha… Nikhil, I catched up with all ur posts today after your Recession post, and I was glad you started writing back again… whoops – I mean – writing on the blog again