The genepax car is technically an electric car using fuel cells which generates electricity by breaking down water into it’s molecular form, while Dingel’s car uses the traditional engine block and the reactor he invented. I think Dingel’s idea is still very marketable considering that more than 90% of the cars running today are still traditional ones. Us pinoys will greatly benefit from it, since our number one mode of transport is the jeepney, and if we could just convert all of these to using water, we will greatly reduce our dependence on foreign oil as well as improve the air quality in our cities.

By the way, a great percentage of the guys who did the research on the technology behind the fuel cell being used by the genepax car are FILIPINOS. Just imagine our capability as a nation if only we take care of our great minds.

This invention has been known for quite sometime. I think for Mr. Dingel, its time for you to move on as you know prices on fuel is tremendously high. People are looking for solutions on how to minimize on fuel cost. Why not share your stuff to your Filipino brothers so we too can experience it. We are willing to help and promote your invention which is the best solution now a days. So Mr. Dingel, we’re behind you. God bless.

There has been loads of similar inventions and it seems the paranoia of the inventors is quite understandable (Stanley Meyer probably being the best known example). Lets hope that Genepax finally breaks the bubble and sets the technology free. This is not just about cars, if the technology works it will cause a revolution in the world effectively ending the age of oil.

I came across a site that says cars can be run on water. Has anyone tried or had any success using this method?

What the world needs right now is an inventor who doesn’t want to make money. I cant believe that of all broadsheets inquirer would run a column like this. It is SS.

Too many people claiming this claiming that. Nasan na?! Bakit hindi kami makabili at bakit pasikreto sikreto pa kayo? Lam nyo kung bakit? Because a lot of people prey on other peoples fears.

That’s why. Greed. They want to make money out of peoples fears. And you oh dear inquirer writer are helping them.

SS = So Stupid.

It seems that the paranoid inventor feared having his invention stolen … and your 100% right. he does not trust anybody even his household help.its almost 30 yrs already that he keeps the secret of his invention, maybe he will still wait for another 30 years more. i think he needs the 10 best lawyers of the world and 10 present president of the world and 10 richest persons of the world just to satisfy him and make him sure that he is well protected and no one will stole his keep secret invention.

Read the history of water-powered car inventor, Stanley Meyer, and you’ll understand very well why Daniel Dingel has good reason to be paranoid, not just for his invention, but for his life.

Then read ‘The History of Compressed Air Vehicles’ and ask yourself: Why after centuries of development and use in industries like rail hasn’t this technology taken off?
http://www.theaircar.com/acf/air-cars/compressed-air-history.html

What a waste! Now I believe the greedy are feeling the fruits of their own actions as even them now fall prey to the rising cost of petrol. But will they ever learn? NO these greedy folk will just find ways to reinvent themselves and discover new ways of screwing people.

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Water powered car is crap. It defies the laws of thermodynamics.

Dingle would have helped a lot if his invention was supported very well by the government. He has a golden heart, never selfish. The sad thing is, the invention has to go abroad and other country will benefit from it.

I believe the name of the Filipino inventor is (spelled) Daniel Dingle.

Yes it is sad that Mr. Dingle and the Filipino nation was not able to benefit from his invention.

If the inventor was concerned his invention would be stolen from him then i suppose it was all about money. Certainly there are other ways of motivating our Filipino inventors - like nationalism and the benefits to humanity and nature - other than just financial gain.

Mr. Dingel’s claim was a hoax.

His explanation about the technology he used is impossible to believe. Breaking down Hydrogen and Oxygen [using the technology Mr. Dingel described] requires more energy than it can give off.

I wish I could meet that man so he can prove me wrong.

POSTSCRIPT
I used to work as a car mechanic in a repair shop in Davao. I also tried to invent alternative engines. I was however unsuccessful as I could not do it alone. I am currently a System/Software Engineer based in Japan.

Thanks to ABS-CBN’s Julius Babao, interest in Mr. Dingel has been somewhat revived.

We’ve received authorization from him and have constructed his official website:

Please do visit. Thanks.

I am an OFW willing to spend my lifetime savings to mass produced this water fuel generator by Dingel. Unfortunately, i think the Japanese have caught up with the same idea as Dingel’s. Now recently in the news is the water fueled car developed by Genepac from Japan. I heard about Dingel’s invention when i was still a boy and everybody just laughed at it. Dingel in his interview said that his invention is for humanity and if water fuel has been utilized since 1969, we would have prevented global warming. It was very clear in his interview that IMF and the World Bank had stopped him from developing his invention when the Philippine Government told him not to pursue his invention as advised by the IMF and World Bank. This is real power play by big oil companies and the world suffers.

About this water powered car:

This is but the latest in a long string of sob stories about chances blown and opportunities lost by local inventors. I myself have had more than my fair share. Back in late 90s early 9000s, I was introduced to one local inventor who, as far as I could tell, had done serious work on wave powered turbines that can generate power. As a former electrical engineer, I knew right away the inventor had something more than just idle talk, although talk is not the same as doing the lab tests and prototypes that can be used to deliver useful and replicable (in real world conditions) experiments. He was, to put it mildly, in the second of maybe five or six stages to useful commercialization.

Unfortunately, technical knowledge forms but one part of the complete process to commercialization. Equally and perhaps even more decisively, is the need to engender trust on the part of those who will back him up with the funds to produce prototype models to small but actual versions. It became evident that he had to disclose the heart of his invention (a series of them, some of which he held so close to his chest). But he would hear none of it, ostensibly because of fear that his IP could get stolen and his interest shafted. What a completely ridiculous idea to hold against the world, which never has a lack of such ideas in various stages of development, and which rarely gives second or third chances. And so just like this Dingel (if his invention was genuine), he lost his chance.

I have mulled over this incident and many more such local stories (one was about a family that had a stash of masters’ paintings which the patriarch absolutely refused to sell, in fears that he would be cheated upon until he died in oblivion. And many many other inventions which met the same fate of getting overtaken by events or superior inventions all because its owners never knew how to strike the proper balance between risk and return.

In the end it goes back to culture. I have always suspected that Filipino culture is so backward when it comes to risk taking. People would rather waste what they have in vain hopes of cornering a bigger share of the rewards, forgetting that risk is a far bigger issue which, if not properly addressed, would render such hopes unrealizable. when you come to think of it, there is much more to this lesson - indeed the country’s dismal state of backwardness owes to that fatal conceit. Here is a real demonstration that ideas do have serious consequences.

Many of the country’s problems and concerns could easily be shown to amount to a hill of beans if only people were alert to things beyond their immediate surroundings. In other words, Filipinos have trouble with the world because they do not realize what they are missing. But no, they would not care, because they have a wrong self image and notion of reality.

that’s why you have the patent laws to protect the inventors.

sorry dude, you missed your chance.

That Dingel “water-powered car” is a hoax - even the Dept. of Science and Technology came to that conclusion many years ago. Just a simple request from DOST officials to test his “invention” from Manila to Bicol was rejected by Dingel.

Hello Digoy,

Daniel Dingel’s official website is now up and running at http://DanielDingel.com - check it out.

He’s pretty much alive and kicking and still waiting for the right time.

Water-powered car? It’s a hoax. Pure and simple. What that Genepax company were showing on TV, I bet, was not a car directly ran by water. It was operated by a fuel cell. In that cell, hydrogen and oxgen react to generate the electricity used to run the car. You have to continuously feed in hydrogen into the cell to have continuous production of electricity. It is true, you can get hydrogen (to be fed to the cell) from water. (Remember your high school experiment on electrolysis?) But the process would require more energy than what the hydrogen thus generated could produce.

Honda and Toyota can afford to amuse themselves with this so-called invention of Genepax because these car makers, as a consortium, are now on the lead in producing fuel cell cars. Trailing behind them is the consortium of GM of the U.S. and the German Daimler-Benz. Billions of dollars have been poured by these companies into this research on fuel cell car - the car of the future.

Hello to Daniel Dingel!

Am glad you decided to surface. But what are you waiting for? My friend Billy M from the bank we were both with introduced us and you demonstrated your car. I was willing to help you just to get your good idea going. Sayang…don’t you think other good ideas will take the initiative and yours will just become another idea that “could have been”?

At that time, I was in touch with some big car companies and one or two of them were looking into alternative fuels back then.

Incidentally, for the one or two doubting Thomases who respond to this blog, pls note that it tends to deal with issues beyond the bottom line. Precisely why it is called Not Just for Profit. I am personally in favor of more companies getting involved in socially or people oriented projects. But companies have to make money too, so that they can precisely indulge in such projects. Unless one decides to put up dedicated projects like Gawad Kalinga — which has a cadre of ex businessmen and bankers helping out — that make use of business models in order to perform its desired people upliftment role through inexpensive housing. Or the CARD network that makes microfinance available to poor women so that they can set up businesses of their own. In both cases, money has to come from somewhere…but it is made to work in favor of people empowerment.

Hello again Digoy,

What does it take to have Dingel’s car tested? We’ve been sending letters to DOST, DOE, even Sen. Pimentel (who by his press release of Dec. ‘07 apparently still believes in Dingel). No reply to the letters sent by fax last Monday.

Dingel allowed his car to be tested for the reactor’s gas output composition last May. We’re working on having the car tested further for other parameters, including the exhaust composition.

What do you think is the best way to go to have the labs respond? Please e-mail back.

i believe in him! what’s wrong with those people who doesn’t??

i may not know a lot about science, but i know what to believe and what to not believe. what i do know is that there are people, evul people, who are afraid about Mr. Dingle’s invention.. so they’re doing everything in their power so that no one would believe him.

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With the ever rising gas prices it is no wonder that the water car technology is so popular. Genepax new water car seems to be a real breakthrough!

I am convinced that a water powered vehicle might have been created by Mr. Dingel. But what i am not convinced is his motive of not sharing the way on how to make it. Is it he is after a highest bidder for his invention/discovery or what?

If it happens to me, i would share my invention to everyone so that everybody will benefit from it. Just imagine Filipinos not depending on oil cartels for their tranport vehicles? I will not be blaming the government or anybody for not supporting my invention if my purpose is not for personal gains. It will not take long before others, especially car companies, can create their own water powered car. So he better start his own production company and start making or converting water powered cars of the filipinos. He will be the new hero im sure!

Fule prices are horrible, so in Poland there is a very popular alternative - LPG (Gas) as a cheap fule