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Future Car Announcement One, via CNN:

Honda’s new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car rolled off a Japanese production line Monday and is headed to southern California, where Hollywood is already abuzz over the latest splash in green motoring.

The FCX Clarity, which runs on hydrogen and electricity, emits only water and none of the gases believed to induce global warming. It is also two times more energy efficient than a gas-electric hybrid and three times that of a standard gasoline-powered car, the company says.

Future Car Announcement Two, as quoted at Making Light:

Tired of petrol prices rising daily at the pump? A Japanese company has invented an electric-powered, and environmentally friendly, car that it says runs solely on water.

Genepax unveiled the car in the western city of Osaka on Thursday, saying that a liter (2.1 pints) of any kind of water—rain, river or sea—was all you needed to get the engine going for about an hour at a speed of 80 km (50 miles).

“The car will continue to run as long as you have a bottle of water to top up from time to time,” Genepax CEO Kiyoshi Hirasawa told local broadcaster TV Tokyo. “It does not require you to build up an infrastructure to recharge your batteries, which is usually the case for most electric cars,” he added.

If you said to yourself “Why, that Aquacar claim seems somewhat suspect,” you’re not alone! The commenters at Making Light have dragged the Genepax story into a bleak cornfield of science and beaten it to a pulp using bats inscribed with the words “Louisville Slugger” and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The exchange itself is more interesting than the (very likely fraudulent, certainly incomplete) claims of an technological breakthrough.

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