I, like most Americans, dread filling up my car or truck and paying the ever-increasing fuel prices. Don’t get me wrong, as a card-carrying member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, I am all for “Big Oil” making profits. In fact, I’m a part owner (and you may be too) by virtue of mutual funds in my retirement account. I don’t agree with some of the futures trading tactics that have been used to simulate higher-than-reality global demand to drive up the prices of commodities, which includes oil. But that’s not what I want to talk about in this post.
I was Googling around the other day for alternative energy, not because I’m a greenie/ anti-capitalist who fears the sky is falling and is heating up on its way down, but because the scientific and economic ramifications are quite intriguing to me. Anyway, I came across several links to news stories and sites that sell kits that supposedly convert regular water into HHO gas via electrolysis, not the hair-removal kind, but the electrical-separation-of-water into its component elements kind. The hydrogen atoms are then mixed with the oxygen atom in their gaseous form to burn inside everyday internal-combustion engines along with the fuel you already use such as gasoline or diesel, thus making your internal-combustion engine a liquid fuel/ hydrogen gas hybrid. Supposedly, this only requires a very small amount of water, can be retrofitted to nearly any vehicle with an internal-combustion engine and an electrical system (battery and alternator), and decreases gas or diesel use by 20-50%.
Now, it appears that this technology is still in its infancy and I would advise installing one of these kits on your own vehicle AT YOUR OWN RISK! It may work, or it may not, but it certainly does excite the imagination with the possibility of finally being able to fill up from the garden hose instead of the gas pump! If any reader has installed one of these, I would like to hear from you. Please let me know if this performed as advertised and how difficult or easy the installation was.
Here are some links to check out:
A television news story featuring Denny Klein, a pioneer in this technology.
Water Burning Kits for your car
Also, you can Google or search YouTube for “water powered cars” or Denny Klein and get a large number of results.
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One of the guys who works on my truck told me he was about to try this on his truck. I told him to let me know if it works.
I’m sure the Big Oil companies would be furious if this works, because they can’t make money off of it, but it would be one of the best things that could happen to our economy.
It kinda has that “too good to be true” feel to it, but perhaps it’s actually possible… I sure hope so!
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.. . a lot of these sites forget two things… you don’t mix apples with oranges… the goal is not to actually create additional milage from the hydrogen/oxygen/fuel mix itself but to use the ‘Browns Gas’ as a sort of catalyst by changing the air-fuel mixture (at your own risk) to improve the efficiency of the burn. Just as a diesel gets better mileage, about 30%, by burning fuel in a more efficient manner, so is the goal of the hydrogen oxygen ‘additive’ in a gasoline engine…
So what really happens? The engine may run hotter and leaner and as a result more efficiently at combustion temperatures that may be well above the engines design ratings, but I also see burned exhaust valves and seats, even pistons with holes burned in them….
In Physics there is no free lunch… you can’t use surplus electrical energy to electrolyse water into it’s component H2 O2 molecules and then expect to generate more energy in return from burning those same two gasses in a mechanical engine that is at best only 20% efficent.
Show me a perpetual motion machine on a bridge in New York that’s for sale
You can’t mix apples and oranges? Well, I haven’t tried with them, per se, but I did drink some fruit juice the other day that was a mixture of pineapple, orange, and banana, and it was tasty.
You can run your car on water! I just recently converted my ‘94 chevy silverado to run on water. It cost me less than $100 for the parts I needed and it went from getting 14mpg to 33mpg. That’s double the mileage for less than it cost me to fill up. There is definitely something to this water for gas technology, It works!