Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — Would Use Water for Fuel. [ARTICLE]

Would Use Water for Fuel.

Recently an inventor attracted considerable attention by claiming to have Isolated a certain green chemical the addition of which to water would make the water a substitute for gasoline in initial-combustion engines. Now comes another inventor with a process for utilising water as an automobile fuel. He points to the well-known fact that water is decomposed into its elements, hydrogen and oxygen, when a current of electricity passes through it. Hydrogen mixed with air Is more explosive than gasoline vapor. In his patented device the Inventor would convert part of the power generated by the automobile engine into electrical energy, which he would use to decompose water. The hydrogen of the decomposed water he proposes to use to run the engine, securing enough surplus power in the cycle to drive the car.