On May 22, 2019 (April 18, 2019, the Nanyang "water-hydrogen engine" incident. Related hydrogen energy-powered vehicles in Nanyang, Henan Province that "drives with water" have attracted attention and continue to ferment. In the 1980s and 1990s, there was a very influential civil science scam in China, which was "water turned into oil." This farce, once promoted as "China's fifth greatest invention", lasted for more than ten years. I don't know how many people have been deceived, and many media and experts have also been deceived. When the scam was finally exposed by scientific truth, the initiator Wang Hongcheng was jailed and ended up in notorious prison. However, I never expected that in today's Internet era, where information is so developed, similar scams can cause trouble again. It's really unbelievable. On May 22, 2019, Nanyang Daily published a news item on the front page and posted a related report on Weibo, saying that water-hydrogen engines were rolled off the production line in Nanyang. Municipal Party Secretary Zhang Wenshen was investigating the hydrogen energy vehicle project. Praise it. "Nanyang Daily" reported that this means that hydrogen can be produced in real time from water carried by the vehicle, and the vehicle only needs to add water to drive. If it is really what this report says, then this water-hydrogen engine is truly advanced for the first time. Even developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan cannot compete with it. It can be called a "new energy revolution." However, this report immediately triggered a heated discussion among netizens. Some netizens lamented,"I have learned chemistry in vain over the past few years." Many netizens questioned,"I have seen too much Lost in Thailand","Why didn't I apply for the Nobel Prize for such a great invention" and "Is this a perpetual motion machine?" Some people joked about this: "What are the methods of making hydrogen from water? In fact, you don't need electrolysis, just 'blow' it directly. On May 24, Pang Qingnian, chairman of the company Youth Automobile Group, responded in an interview with the media that water-hydrogen fuel vehicle technology is mature and will not delay the progress of the Nanyang project. He also claimed that "the facts are here and are not made up." Pang Qingnian said that the biggest secret of water-hydrogen fuel vehicles is a special catalyst that can convert water into hydrogen at almost zero cost. Finally, the "youth water-hydrogen fuel vehicles" can have a cruising life without refueling, charging and adding water. The range exceeds 500 kilometers, and the range of a car can reach 1000 kilometers. Pang Qingnian is still stubborn, but industry experts have already slapped him in the face. In an interview with the media, Associate Professor Guan Bin of the Institute of Internal Combustion Engine at the School of Mechanical and Power Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University repeatedly said: "That won't work" and "it's fake." Sun Baigang, a professor at the School of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology, believes that turning pure water into oil or using mysterious catalysts to turn water into hydrogen violates the conservation of energy. "Turning pure water into hydrogen as driving force is just like turning water into oil in the past. This is impossible and pure deception." Hydrogen can indeed be used as vehicle energy, and hydrogen fuel cells are also a direction for the development of new energy vehicles. Water can be decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis. Energy must be involved in this. Just adding water cannot make a car run. This energy is not a "catalyst" at all. Popular science writer Fang Xuanchang believes,"One question must be answered, where does the energy come from? If you can run by adding water, it's a 100% scam." The above principles should actually be learned in middle school chemistry classes. It is a basic common sense, and there is no longer a popular introduction here. Many experts in the automotive and energy industries pointed out that it is currently not feasible to separate water from hydrogen in vehicles and use it as driving energy. The question is, why can such a common-sense scam still have ground to implement? As early as 2017, Pang Qingnian, chairman of Youth Automobile, announced: "The world's first water-hydrogen fuel vehicle was born in Youth Automobile." This was already regarded as an industry joke at the time. However, it is important to know why those absurd and absurd things appear behind the jokes. According to public reports, in November 2018, Nanyang signed a cooperation framework agreement on hydrogen energy vehicle projects with Youth Automobile Group. On December 29 of that year, Nanyang High-tech Zone signed a contract with the Youth Automobile Hydrogen Energy Vehicle Project, which also became a supporting project for the Nanyang Hydrogen Energy Vehicle Industrial Park. Youth Automobile's Nanyang project has a total investment of 8.316 billion yuan, of which 4 billion yuan has been invested by the Nanyang City government platform. At that time, the project claimed that it would achieve an output value of 30 billion yuan after completion. Now that this matter comes out, the outside world is paying attention to whether Youth Automobile defrauded the government for investment. In fact, Qingnian Automobile is a "habitual criminal" with a "criminal record"-the media has uncovered the numerous misdeeds of "Youth Automobile Group": in 2017, the company was exposed to use car building as leverage to exchange coal, suspected of fraud, and was once involved in the list of "car defrauding companies" and was fined. Three automobile and engine companies under the group have been bankrupt and liquidated. On the China Judgement Online, there are as many as 517 civil cases with the keyword "Youth Automobile"... Qixinbao shows that it has 686 pieces of risk information, 29 pieces of information on the person subject to execution, and 46 pieces of information on breach of trust. On January 7 and 8 this year, it was listed as a dishonest person by the Minhang District People's Court of Shanghai City and the Bell Tower District People's Court of Changzhou City respectively. From the public information, you can easily find that the partners have bad records and hundreds of civil disputes. Nanyang City dares to introduce such partners in investment promotion and dares to invest billions of yuan in it. It really has a big heart. The scam was exposed. How will a big pit with an investment of 4 billion yuan fill in a major new energy project requires extensive evaluation and review by professional departments and administrative departments. It is so easy to be deceived, and the scientific spirit, investigation and supervision of relevant local departments will be put on a big question mark. In fact, this project in Nanyang City is also a microcosm of China's new energy vehicle industry. my country's production and sales scale of new energy vehicles has ranked first in the world for many consecutive years. Based on the greater imagination in the future, the new energy vehicle industry has been sought after by some enterprises, non-industry capital and local governments, showing a rhythm of "doing big things and moving forward". There has also been a chaos of "every village ignites and every household smokes smoke". Some places blindly attract new energy vehicle companies to settle down, but do not consider whether the local area has basic production conditions; some places promote new energy vehicles just to revitalize the original local automobile production capacity and resources; some places launch new energy vehicle projects, It is also for GDP and political achievements. At this year's two sessions, hydrogen energy was included in the "Government Work Report" for the first time, which triggered "hydrogen energy craze" in some places. Under such circumstances, some companies focus on capacity expansion and ignore technological accumulation and breakthroughs; some companies focus on "subsidies" and produce which car is highly subsidized; some companies are busy racing around the land, creating concepts and telling stories, but the products are never "seen". With all the mud and sand, it is not surprising that big hoax projects such as the "water-hydrogen engine" can find a place to be implemented. In response to the Nanyang Daily report that "Youth Automobile Group's hydro-hydrogen engines are off the production line in Nanyang", this station previously specifically recorded that "the first batch of 72 hydrogen energy buses in Nanyang were launched on April 28, 2019." On May 24, the relevant person in charge of relevant departments in Nanyang City stated that the so-called offline refers to a trial run from the production line, but failed to pass the acceptance. It cannot be said that the Nanyang Daily report is inaccurate, but the understanding is different. It is not that you can run by adding water, but you need to add water to go through some reactions before you can run. At present, the official has asked the companies involved to provide preliminary explanations.