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Unbelievable Kiwi breakthrough

If you'd been watching TV3 news last week, you'd have seen the incredible footage of a car that runs on water.

Yes, a West Auckland man showed us how he could take regular water, add a few mystery ingredients (including some kind of oil), wave his magic wand over the bottle, decant it (over a magic metal) into another container and then use that fluid to run a regular car engine.

The strange thing is that nobody's knocking down his door to hand him a fist-full of dollars for this incredible technology.

Indeed, he laments the fact that he's being forced to go off-shore in order to forge "joint ventures" with technology partners so that the full potential of this exciting technology can be realised.

If you missed the news item, TV3 have kindly archived it here on their website -- although for some strange reason, searching news video with the title of this item brings up no matches.

Could that be a conspiracy to suppress this earth-shaking breakthrough?

Well you never know -- after all, the guy who's done all this hard work currently lives in fear that a major nation will seize this information so that nobody else will be able to use it.

Eh?

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In the footage we saw of his water-powered motorcycle, the fluid he poured into the machine's fuel-tank was clear and looked just like water -- but now it's a deep red colour.

If you look closely at the TV3 video you'll also notice that he seems to use only a *very* small amount of water (maybe 30-50ml) -- then tops the bottle up with several hundred ml of what he calls "oil".

Hmmm...

So this process simply waters down oil to make fuel perhaps?

Gosh, I could demonstrate how you can run your car on water by replacing that oil with ethanol. Pure ethanol will mix quite happily with water while remaining a usable fuel in most internal combustion engines.

Now obviously this was one of the "quirky" stories that TV channels love to run in their news, just to fill in the spaces -- but why aren't we seeing some real investigative journalism going on here?

If this guy actually had developed a process for turning water into a usable fuel then this would be the most significant scientific breakthrough in centuries.

Surely this means that the story is either worthy of proper investigation and debunking -- or more effort ought to be put into alerting Kiwis to the fact that we ought to be getting right behind this invention as a way of securing the nation's future wealth and prosperity.

Of course, being the old skeptic I am, I have 100% confidence that this is not the next "big thing" and that the guy is either woefully misguided in his understanding of what he's observing, or simply having a good laugh at TV3's expense.

But wait, for all those of you who scoff at the idea of a car which runs on water, here is proof that a vehicle can run on water.

What do you think -- are these "quirky items" they throw into the news-mix really worth the video-tape they're recorded on?

Should TV news sharpen up its game and dig a little deeper than they obviously do -- especially considering that if this guy is kosher, he's about to become a multi-squillionaire?

Have your say on this...

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