Are Water Fuel Cells Just Gimmicks?
The initial invention of water fuel cells caught a great deal of attention. The idea that we could run our vehicles on water instead of gas or diesel was a huge concept, and one that wasn’t embraced perhaps as well as it needed to be. These cells could literally change the direction that our country is heading politically, environmentally, and economically.
Water fuel cells are based on a technology that would transfer power first through water as a conductive unit and then break apart in a combustion like process to give the engine hydrogen to run one while the oxygen would be released harmlessly into the air. The scientific implications of such a design would be life changing for all of us, and science has not yet offered us a chance to embrace this technology.
Originally, the water fuel cells were conceptualized and even partially designed by a scientist named Stanley Allen Meyer. Meyer’s principles were sound but there were issues in the final delivery. The scientific community used its resources to debunk his theories rather than develop them and many today point toward theories based on conspiracy in order to downplay the significance of his ideas.
Many believe that water fuel cells were not embraced because it was likely that the economic implications for homeland oil fields and the political “benefits” of Middle Eastern relations would be compromised. Thus, we have yet to understand whether these cells could really be implemented in our daily life. What if we could exchange our gas and diesel powered vehicles for those that could run cleanly on water?
Water fuel cells could very well be our answer to oil dependence and they could alter the way we live our lives immensely. Whether that is a good political move or a bad political move is entirely about perception. Nevertheless, these cells have the potential to make us an independent country while solving one of the most difficult aspects of pollution that we have ever faced.
Gasoline and diesel powered vehicles are responsible for the majority of ground level ozone, which is a deadly and planet killing pollutant. People in large cities suffer from the effects of ground level ozone in the form of asthma, respiratory diseases, and heart disease. More than 2000 people per year die from ground level ozone complications. Water fuel cells could literally remove the threats of this deadly form of air pollution.
Scientific communities of today are now changing their opinion on the water fuel cells. Greater development is needed but it looks like science is finally looking in this direction to help encourage the acceptance and use of this form of technology.
Originally published here.
Alexis Jameson