H2O to boost your car power
By fortheweb
@fortheweb (61)
Philippines
March 14, 2007 1:16pm CST
With electrolysis, you can split water or H2O into HHO and feed it to your car air intake. It will add more power to your engine by improving the engine combustion process and with that you are reducing smoke or pollution from your engine exhaust pipe at the same time saving fuel.
Check this site out: http://fuelfromh2o.com/index.html
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@taiguy (478)
• United States
15 Mar 07
The problem there is that "electrolysis" is using high-voltage in order to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The efficiency can be anywhere from 20% to 80% in terms of energy - power ratio. This means that if you had enough electricity to perform the "electrolysis" (especially on the fly) then you could just power the vehicle with that electricity instead.
I think the most important use for hydrogen right now is to reduce the extra electricity that get's generated but is not used. Power companies must generate more electricity than is actually used to ensure a constant supply. By using this excess electricity to perform electrosys on water then the hydrogen/oxygen can be stored until it is needed. This would give us a nice buffer, aswell, incase of an emergency. The hydrogen/oxygen can be used in a fuel cell in order to generate electricity instead of burning them incase of emissions concern.
@fortheweb (61)
• Philippines
17 Mar 07
I would like to make it clear that it's not the voltage that will increase the effeciency but the current. The more current you apply, the more HHO gas you will get. I've done several tests with electrolysis and so with some individual from this site: http://oupower.com/index.php and tests have shown that the more current you apply, the more HHO gas you will generate. Another option also is to use a frequency generator to let the current flow in pulses at certain frequency.
A 12V car battery can generate good power to produce HHO. We are not going to replace the gasoline fuel with this setup but let HHO help burn the gasoline more effeciently to have more power which will result lesser fuel consumption since you will then be burning lesser gasoline for the same amount of work required.
Another factor that will contribute to effeciency in HHO production is the number of stainless plates used and their distance from each other.
Basic electrolysis setup can be found on this link below:
http://oupower.com/index.php?dir=_My_Projects/_Over_Unity_Related_Projects/Electrolysis/Electrolysis%20Basics&PageNum=2
@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
14 Apr 08
I also am getting interested in this technology. I am seeing lots of videos online that really makes HHO technology the answer to our dwindling fossil fuels. I think right now it may still be a bit costly to produce one but I do believe in the long run it will be beneficial for us and our environment.
@SunlightSwoon (1060)
• United States
14 Mar 07
Is this for real, do you actually believe they have let a devise that utilizes water in place of fossil fuels reach
the marketplace. There has got to be some catch. I know we have the technical skills to create an engine that runs on an alternate fuel source, but to actually make it to the marketplace...there has gotta be a catch...SS
@taiguy (478)
• United States
9 Apr 08
A "friend of a friend" has claimed to setup a crude unit in his car. He claims to get above 30 mpg with the unit. I am not sure how much hydrogen can really be produced at once, and it may be alot more useful to have it 'build up' over time (i.e. when car is not running). Ofcourse this is dangerous and should not be tried at home (when you do please tell me about it).
One important point that may not be considered here is that the energy that comes from the battery has to be rechard via the alternator. The alternator get's it's power from the combustion engine, i.e. gasoline. Since there is only a 20% effenciency on gasoline combustion engines and 20-80% effenciency in the electrolysis unit there may not be a long term gain here.
