Running on Water
RECENT episode of Passing Parade dealt with the question "Can Water Be Used As Fuel?" I wonder if the process described here, of filling your petrol ‘tank with water, dropping in a pellet of the Secret Formula, and starting up the engine, is really so feasible as "popular" science might suggest? ‘Heard on the radio, it sounded so very easy. Apparently someone demonstrated it to the satisfaction of the Navies of Britain and the U.S.A., and it seems it was rumoured to have been used by the Nazis after their fuel supplies had run out. So simple-just a little pellet! Although stranger things by far have happened within my own lifetime, I am by nature sceptical, and I was not surprised to hear, at the end of the episode, the "voice of conservative science" telling us that water just can’t be used as fuel, and that even Professor Dunning’s discovery of U235 is not the final answer to Passing Parade’s dream of petrolbowsers djspensing water at 2/7 a gallon.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 388, 29 November 1946, Page 10
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172Running on Water New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 388, 29 November 1946, Page 10
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