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The interwebs is going crazy about this bloke who's made a battery fueled bike and is telling the world it runs on water.

why do people not understand highschool-level physics?
Do people feel like comfortable in believing there's some kind of iluminati who are so powerfull that they can prevent guys like thies from sharing theyr blueprints on the deepweb?
does it make them feel like stuff happens for a reason?
how to deal with these people? I find it kinda terrifying how easilly people are willing to give up common sense as soon as something's comfortable to believe or when a common enemy is presented.

I would normally just shrug and laugh about the idiots, but it seems they're growing in numbers (though i say seem as i hate people claiming trends when you don't have actual numbers), also the number of mainstream media that don't even put any sort of critical note to it is kinda worrying.


https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0ahUKEwjj64GY687JAhUqjXIKHQCJBN0QFggtMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-3169716%2FMotorcycle-runs-water-polluted-river-travel-310-miles-single-litre.html&usg=AFQjCNHifLDZXXNoW00eJGjBNNBUT-gxYw&sig2=Kv0GzxLNEGbNqDgI710AyA

>> No.7710088

>>7710055
Water and gas is made from the same atoms, just in different configurations.

There is no reason this concept would not work in principle. Stars work in the same way.

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7710092

>>7710055
>H20

>> No.7710094

>>7710055
But nobody is being fooled here, it does work. The only reason to not get excited is that this is just a log winded and inefficient way of getting energy out of the battery.

>> No.7710111

>>7710088
NO stars don't work on the same pronciple, stars work by nuclear fusion, creating helium from hydrogen.

but yes it would be possible to split the water with a batery and then burn it in a combustion engine like the guy seems to be doing, except then the bike is powered by battery, not by water. the water acts more like a chain or driveshaft in a way. but it is inherently less efficient than powering an electric motor directly from the battery.

basically there are only two advantages to burning hydrogen in a combustion engine:
>one still has the sound of explosions that makes petrolheads happy
>it can be retrofitted on a historic vehicle.
both reasons are purely sentimental of course.

I'm somwhat doubtfull the bike even works in the described way, anyone able to make this would realise how rediculous it is to do it like this. much better would be to make hydrogen at home without the battery, compress it and run purely on hydrogen.

my question remains, why is highschool physics so difficuilt for people?
why don't people question these claims even a little bit? like it's ok to believe some random brazilian dude from the internet instead of your physics teacher just because he sounds cool....

Is anti-intellectualism on the rise?

>> No.7710138

>>7710111
>Is anti-intellectualism on the rise?
Nah, it's just more visible.
People have always believed dumb shit. It's just that they used to do it in little niches and urban rumors, and now they do in massive Facebook groups.

>> No.7710195

>>7710138
OK, i ge that. But back then people had an excuse for ignorance. like no-one had a way to know whether you'd explode from pop-rocks without risking their life, but now we can just google "preservation of energy"...