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Off topic but a must read.
Watch this one first then read the other.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Rb_rDkwGnU
I have a co-worker going to try this in his gasser . http://www.water-4-fuel.com/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Rb_rDkwGnU
I have a co-worker going to try this in his gasser . http://www.water-4-fuel.com/
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I just installed a hydrogen generator a few days ago. I'm still working out the bugs. The principle is good, it just takes some work to make it practical. Some of the claims are a little exagerated, like 40-50 percent better mpg. But I think an honest 25 mpg inprovement could be possible.
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Originally Posted by ford&excavators
I just installed a hydrogen generator a few days ago. I'm still working out the bugs. The principle is good, it just takes some work to make it practical. Some of the claims are a little exagerated, like 40-50 percent better mpg. But I think an honest 25 mpg inprovement could be possible.
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Hmmm.
If it was "free" fuel like that why didn't they figure it out 100 years ago and design the vehicles to electrolize the water and power the vehicle?
I don't have the education to answer the question, but it takes a certain amount of power to split up the water molecule to the separate gasses, and then recombining them via combustion will make a certain amount of heat energy which can be converted to HP to move a car.
So far nobody has figured out a way to enable Joe and Jane Citizen to just pour some water into the tank and the car will take it from there.
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Sorry but I'm skeptical on this. If it were really true, something like this would have been around for a long time.
If it was "free" fuel like that why didn't they figure it out 100 years ago and design the vehicles to electrolize the water and power the vehicle?
I don't have the education to answer the question, but it takes a certain amount of power to split up the water molecule to the separate gasses, and then recombining them via combustion will make a certain amount of heat energy which can be converted to HP to move a car.
So far nobody has figured out a way to enable Joe and Jane Citizen to just pour some water into the tank and the car will take it from there.
.
Sorry but I'm skeptical on this. If it were really true, something like this would have been around for a long time.
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Dan, your question is the key to all this technology. I'm a computer geek by trade so I prefer to be entertained by educational programs on the boobtube. I watched a documentary that indicated the energy required to produce the gas is more than the output. May have been an oil company funded study though???
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The system I bought is a two piece system. It has a reservior/bubbler that has to be mounted higher than the generator. Its holds about a gallon. The generator is a steel cylinder with 3/4 inch plastic on both sides. So a tube goes from the reservior down to the bottom of the generator, then a tube goes from the top of the generator to the middle of the reservior. So the gas,(and sometimes water if the mixture is wrong) comes out the generator into the reservior. Then there is a tube at the very top of the reservior that goes to my intake. You have to change the water like ever 500miles. Its easy thought because the generator has a valve on the bottom. Im still playing with the amount of Baking soda to put into the water, because that affects how much current the generator draws. It has a 30 amp fuse, and I was blowing that, when the manual says you only want to pull 10-15 amps. Anyways if that makes any sense... I'll try to get some pictures up here sometime.