I’ll have to admit that this is a tricky subject. Separating fact from fiction regarding the mythical water car, hydrogen cars and regular cars partly powered by HHO gas can make many people’s heads swim.

But, the problem with mixing up technologies is that the readers’ heads continue to swim afterwards. I’ll have to give the Muse paper its dues because it mostly got the article right. But, there are also a few errors that need to be corrected.

For instance, the official Daniel Dingel website says that the inventor’s water car is actually a hydrogen on-demand device for a standard automobile. This is a newer interpretation of older claims of a 100-percent water-powered car.

The Muse Online also calls a popular HHO eBook at “kit” which of course it is not, only a set of plans to build a kit. In the article the term “H2O powered car” is also used loosely so that the reader doesn’t mean if this refers to a 100-percent water car or a car partially powered by electrolyzed water. There is a huge difference here.

Like I said, this is a difficult subject to wrap one’s head around. But, in order to separate fact from fiction, the media does need to get the similarities and differences straight.

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