A Slashdot car of the future?

Gun Engine Explodes Fuel Efficiency

Prototype car runs 100 miles on four ounces of water as fuel

and today

Super Battery

what do these all have in common aside from them being found by the fine members of the slashdot community? I think they would make a damn cool car together.

OK so to start we have the gun engine

1. It can be made in today’s factories with a minimum of changes and no new exotic materials
2. It can theoretically get 220 mpg
3. its already flex fuel ready if it burns it works
4. it simplifies the car and lightens it (no transmission no radiator needed) for more efficientcy/room for other things

second we have the car that runs on water

1. 100 miles on 4 ounces of water (converted to HHO from H2O so its not really water at that point)
2. um that’s it really its unconfirmed and the energy to convert water to HHO may be more than it puts out
3. there’s a couple different version of car runs on water that all involve some easy way to make H2O to Hydrogen in the car or garage so people are working on this
4. Military is interested so if they make it work it Will eventually.. or die a slow sad death

and third the super battery

1. its actually a super capacitor, go go carbon nanotubes
2. charges in seconds very very high amount of energy stored does not wear out anywhere near as fast as a battery does
3. team plans to have working version end of the year production within five years.

So we have two improvements on old designs, and literal vaporware. So what if we put these all together..

assuming all 3 work

• 128 ounces to a gallon
• HHO =3,200 miles to a gallon?
• gun engine =200 miles to a gallon
• gun engine on HHO?= no clue not doing math now, seems way too unlikely

So add the new max capacitors +charging off of braking like the new Hybrids…

• add really intelligent control systems to max efficiency between use of capacitors and engine
  • If this really was a slashdot car embedded specialized Linux that you could use to program this in would be interesting
  • use capacitors charged off brakes to run all the electronics except for start-up
  • alt charge for capacitors could be next gen solar-> use capacitor for the start-up for least fuel consumption etc

just the gun engine alone can run off anything and much higher efficiency so add these two together and you get some insanely lovable potential for gadgetry, tweaking and whatnot, not to mention a runs on anything can power the sickest electronics and still kick your car of today’s gas guzzling butt warm fuzzy feeling.

anything else I missed? I’m sure there’s enough new tech that goes through /. to make all cars of today obsolete I just want one now.

also apologies for overuse of efficiency and whatnot just that much potential just sitting there makes my brain go mushy