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Cars that run on water

THERE should be a law against it, we grumble. Back on 13 June, Mark Rowatt Anderson tells us, the normally reputable Reuters news agency – without whose accurate and precise business reports capitalism as a whole would be in deep trouble – distributed a short feature on the Japanese company Genepax, which says it has produced a car that runs on “nothing but water” (At the time of writing you could see the video at www.runsonwater.notlong.com).

Again? How often does the “car that runs on water” meme re-emerge? Every time it finds willing hosts in minds…

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