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Car Powered By Water A Reality

Updated: Sep 6, 2006 01:46 PM

By Eric Flack

(LOUISVILLE) -- Along Florida's Gulf Coast, water is everywhere. From
the bay to the beach to the town of Clearwater, that is where we found
Denny Klein. A man driven by water, literally.

Klein has invented the world's first water powered car. It runs on
what he calls "Aquygen." Aquygen is water or H2O, broken down and
turned into HHO gas, something scientists once thought impossible.

"Any PhD or library, they say you can't mix hydrogen and oxygen. And
still to this day we get a lot of people who don't believe us because
that's what they were taught," Klein said.

But people are quickly learning Klein and his car are for real.

Klein says his design will retrofit any piston engine.

An economic development team from the county and local government TV
got a demonstration while we were there.

Klein says he initially developed Aquygen to create a safer, less
polluting blowtorch. Klein realized Aquygen would clean up car
emissions as well. The only thing that would come out of the tailpipe
was water.

Soon, his vision became a reality.

Like most alternative fuel cars, the prototype is actually a hybrid.
It runs on a gas and Aquygen mixture. Whenever you're ready, you flip
the switch and the Aquygen kicks in.

The result is up to a 50 percent jump in gas mileage. Klein's Ford
Escort prototype gets 384 miles on a tank of gas. 576 miles with a
little Aquygen mixed in.

Klein sees a totally Aquygen powered car sometime in the future. With
that, he says you could drive 100 miles on 4 ounces of water. "You
just drive it like a regular car. The infrastructure is already in
place to get it serviced so we don't have to reinvent the wheel,"
Klein said.

For now, Denny Klein is content to perfect the hybrid version of the
car. He says it could hit the market in as little as 2 years.

Aquygen units for industrial use are already for sale and Klein says
other uses for it remain on the horizon. After all, with Aquygen, the
possibilities are as endless as the supply.

If you're worried about losing power, don't. Unlike some other
alternative fuel cars, Klein says he actually gets a couple extra
horsepower when he uses Aquygen.

There are two hurdles to a car that runs totally on Aquygen. One: long-
term impact on the engine. Will the water speed up rust or corrosion
over time? Two: figuring out a process to tank the gas for
distribution.