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Old 05-16-2008, 11:58 AM   #1
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Run you car with water

I'm interested in using water/HHO gas technology. I sent an e-mail to "runyourcarwithwater.com" and asked someone to contact me directly. Needles to say, it's been 3 days and I haven't heard from them. I'm leery of being scammed. Can anyone answer a few questions for me?
1. What kind of material costs can I expect to lay out after receiving the instructions?
2. How difficult are the instructions to follow?
3. Does that particular company offer any tech support?
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Old 05-16-2008, 12:35 PM   #2
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This is a scam. In order to make hydrogen, you have to split water. This takes more energy than it releases.
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Old 05-16-2008, 12:58 PM   #3
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Wrong Sludgy.

People are doing it all over the world. I am doing it. I have friends that do it too. It works, but different people get different results.

Depends on too many variables to list. Like the catalyst you are using, the Stainless Steel you are using, the how many Amps you are pulling. Are you using 1,2, 3 or more hydrogen cells to make your hydrogen (Browns Gas). Are you running the gas to one intake port on your manifold or two? Are you using a MAP sensor enhancer? What other things are you doing to help your mileage. Are you using extenders for your O2 sensors as they give a falso O2 reading to your ECU when you use HHO technology's to split water and feed it to your engine, thus, you need to trick your O2 sensors to not send this info back to the ECU or you will get worse mileage.

I would suggest googling "hydrogen powered cars" or "water powered cars, or "youtube"-ing it to see the many videos of people who are doing it successfully.

Google or you-tube "Stan Meyers", the master inventor or water for fuel technology. He is one of many.

Why was Stan murdered recently? Could it possibly be that he, like many other water for fuel inventors, were seen as a threat to Big Oil concerns. Well, when you invent a car that runs totally on water and nothing else, I guess you need to look over your should at all times, wouldn't you agree?

Splitting water is not new. Its been around for many, many years. The patent is something like 90 years old.

YOU CAN IMPROVE your MPG with supplementing Browns Gas or H-H-O into your intake maniford. You will increase you mileage anywhere from 10 to 70 % from a combination of methods.

Samy: I suggest you can start with Ozzie Newsom's site "water4gas.com" That's what I have done. HHO experimentors meet at some park in LA every Saturday at 1200 noon to show off their latest creations. Directon are on the website. Don't take my word for it. Look for yourself. Don't believe some naysayer who says "it takes more enery than it releases". That kind of logic is from someone who hasn't looked inot the science behind it and hasn't tried it. He is just repeating what Big Oil wants you to believe.

I have been to 2 gatherings in LA so far and met Ozzie. I bought and down-loaded his ebook with easy to follow directions on how to build a simple HHO generator. I have built it. It works. Based on other designs I have seen from other experimentors, I am now trying to replicate their projects and designs. Its fun, its work, its a lot of driving around testing what you have done, and chasing around town or the internet for the material you need...but in the end, with $5.00 per gallon gas just around the corner here is south Florida...its worth it to me.

If anyone isinterested in meeting Saturdays in south Florida, like they do in LA, to get the word out, please let me know. I have tried to get some interest on another thread but no luck so far.

I am trying to get a group interested to share ideas and experiments and designs. Together we CAN and WILL beat the oil company crooks and the RAG Heads in the desert...and the crooked polititians who got us into this mess.
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Old 05-16-2008, 01:57 PM   #4
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hvyironfr8dog: Sorry, I've yet to see one so called water powered car that actually worked.

I've heard of "HHO" injection on a car with the intention of improving the combustion itself, thus boosting efficiency. Haven't seen it in person, but I know a local tinkerer who's giving it a shot. We'll see if it works even better than his methanol/water injection.


But splitting water to produce energy, without using energy to split the water? Perpetual motion 100%.
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Old 05-16-2008, 02:38 PM   #5
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It is pointless trying to reason with people determined to deceive themselves.
They can make themselves believe ANYTHING.

Run your car with water?? OK, So all you gotta do is believe in it. That was easy --- LOL!!!!!!!


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Old 05-16-2008, 03:26 PM   #6
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My take on how it should work...

Okay, here's what actually happens on the road...
http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_110216/article.html
and refer to pretty picture...

Now, I'm picking favorable conditions here, to show how it can work, any idiot can pick conditions where it won't (Mythbusters probably qualifies here)

Now load is scaled in BMEP, max is 150. Imagine a vehicle cruising at 20% load on the highway, that would be 30 on the side of the graph, using about 20HP to keep moving at 3000 rpm 60mph, that puts us in the magenta region at a BSFC of about .65 lb/bhp-hr, a gallon of gas weighs about 6.5lb, so our car is getting .65x20HP=13lb/hr, dead on 30mpg. Now we've got a decent sized alternator in the thing 160 Amp, sounds a little large, but that size is on many light trucks now and is optional on vehicles like the Dodge Magnum, dB draggers are putting 200+ amp units in. Using this size because it makes the numbers convenient, it gives us about 2250W, which is around an even 3HP, which at 60% efficiency makes for a 5HP load on the engine, when fully loaded, so we fully load it.....

So we've increased load by 5HP, so now we're using .65x25HP=16.25lb/hr = 24mpg right? WRONG

No, we're going back to our graph... we had to crack the throttle a little more to hold 60mph, so we've reduced pumping loss... so reading across from our new 25% load, 37.5 on the left, ye gods! now we're using about .55lb/bhp-hr so .55x25HP=13.75lbhr, 28.4mpg...

So we're effectively getting 2250W of useable electrical power at a "cost" of only .75lb of gasoline an hour...

So, the electrolysis process for H2 is about 80% efficient in terms of energy input, however, ~20% of the energy comes from environmental heat, usually presumed to be at a temperature of 20-25*C.... but our electrolysis tank is sitting in a toasty warm engine bay, soaking up a proportion of that 75% of the wasted energy in the gasoline that doesn't get to the road. If the electrolyte temperature gets up to about 40-50C from heat soak, we can expect about 40% of the energy of the process to come from heat, electricity needs only to supply the remaining 60%. So we need to supply 1.25x the energy we get out of the hydrogen, to overcome the 20% efficiency loss, but since 40% is supplied by heat, we only need 75% of the energy to come from the alternator... so 2250W of electrical energy, makes 3000W worth of hydrogen...

So, the energy before losses in that extra .75lb of gas we're burning is about 3800Watt-hours.... we see from the graphs here http://www.transportation.anl.gov/tr...en_engine.html that 50% efficiency is achieved by pure hydrogen in conversion to mechanical energy in an IC motor, where it's limiting factor is the mechanical limits of IC engine design, in diluted quantities, it is reasonable to expect it to exceed 50% efficiency, perhaps approaching 80% or more. So at best case efficiency for the gasoline of 25%, and at this point on the graph (3000 rpm 25% load) we're only seeing 20% efficiency, that 3800Wh of gasoline is only worth 950 Wh at the wheels, whereas our 3000Wh of hydrogen would be worth 1500Wh at the wheels, this is best case for gasoline, medium case for H2, therefore our H2 is worth the equivalent of 1.2lb of gasoline... 13.75-1.2=12.55lb/hr consumption, our mileage went up to 31mpg...

However... doing it as a "better case" for the H2 at 80% burn efficiency and using actual gasoline efficiency at this load point of 20% the gas is only worth 760Wh at the wheels, where the H2 is worth 2400 Wh at the wheels... making the H2 worth 3.16lb of gasoline, taking us up to around 37mpg of actual gasoline consumption.

This also neglects synergistic efficiency increases of the H2 and remember the "extra free" O2 on the burn efficiency of the gasoline mixture, and the improved efficiency of heat to cylinder pressure conversion which is likely to occur with extra steam in the chamber as a working fluid, all which may be worth another couple of mpg at least...

There is no "free" energy here, it's just improving the efficiency of the system as a whole, the car is getting 30mpg at 20% efficiency, that means it would get 150mpg if all that energy were harnessed as propulsive effort. All you're doing is clawing some of that back.

MIT knows that H2 increases combustion efficiency, they are working with Arvin-Merritor to crack H2 from gasoline in a plasma chamber called the plasmatron, they are conservatively estimating efficiency gains of up to 33% when 25% of the gasoline is cracked to H2. This process appears more efficient than electrolysis cells.

Remember the gasoline has to remain in the picture to provide the inefficiencies to scavenge the rewards from, you're not going to get your car running on 100% water electrolysis like this. On hot days with a favourable engine design (one with relatively high piston speeds) you might take a few hours to run your battery down with a really efficient cell, but it ain't gonna run constant. It could be said that using electricity this way is overall more efficient than many electric hybrid motors.... in warm climates at least.

There's gonna be a point where making more H2 doesn't get you any more MPG and MPG starts dropping, don't know where that is, most of these commercial kits are making relatively small amounts of H2 off stock alternators. Some of them seem to be giving apparently freaky results on small cars, like 70mpg in an Escort... well... the Escort could get 40mpg highway for a start, driven carefully, and with a relatively small motor has further to jump across the BSFC graph when loaded and is requiring relatively less H2 production to hit peak potential.

Other ways of getting H2 into the motor might be investigated to get better overall efficiency than these electrolysis cells. Waste heat might be scavenged directly for H2 generation, and then you don't even drop that .75 lb/hr that you have to make back again.

A possibility I will be investigating shortly is that ethanol can be cracked to H2 at relatively low heat, ~100C... with a catalyst... copper... doped with lanthanum (found in lighter flints) for improved specificity for H2 and reduced coking... so I'm going to copper plate my intake ports.. reasoning that it will crack the ethanol in the fuel to H2 as it is evaporating off the port walls, waiting for the intake to open (injectors are spraying at a closed valve during 90% of driving)

So anyway, if you wanna screw with it, do so, use a big alternator, put lots of cells in series for best results (Best efficiency is at low voltage per cell, electrolysis starts somewhere around 1.7V so 6 cells across 12V is about 2V per cell. you can probably go to 7 cells, since alt output is probably at 13.5-13.8V)

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Old 05-16-2008, 10:51 PM   #7
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Wink Actual car that ran on water

here's something interesting:

http://waterpoweredcar.com/1978camero.html

claims to have ran a car just on water alone, seems that the key is high voltage going into the engine which instantly splits the water molecules right before combustion.

whether it's true or not, don't really know.

here's another one that is somewhate believable:

http://waterpoweredcar.com/herman.html

if anyone here get these to work let me know! LOL!
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Old 05-17-2008, 05:59 AM   #8
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Crossing over

I have been on the BS side of this debate. I am going to cross over to the other side. This reminds me of other developments whose early advocates received at best skepticism and at worst derision for concepts now widely accepted. Admittedly many articles supporting this are not written by scientists. The tinkerers invent new words and sometimes make statements that are not correct. They are however getting anomalous results that we could benefit from understanding.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/how-a-...ine-works1.htm

That was a well written article that clearly indicates that Hydrogen and gasoline mixtures can burn with an overall benefit. It also makes the point that the engine should be run lean for optimum benefit when using the hydrogen. We are talking MIT here. It probably is true.

Generating enough hydrogen electrically is a challenge. Leaning out a computer controlled car can be done but it takes some doing.

Some of those that claim they are doing this probably are.
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Hey clown, "Stan Meyers" was not murdered. He died of a brain aneurysm. Yes, I'm currently on the "HHO works" bandwagon but I am sick of morons spinning up the truth.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content...1_4V77MOK.html

Oh yeah, good old Stan was found guilty of "gross and egregious fraud" and ordered to repay investors $25,000.

Why did he die recently? Well -- he DIDN'T unless you call 1998 "recent".

Go back and sit in the corner!
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Here's one of my post from another thread:

adjusting air fuel mixture

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products are marketed as to help adjust your air/fuel ratio and get more efficiency from your HHO generator:

http://www.protiumfuelsystems.com/optimizer.html

The Optimizer (also known as a dual edge map sensor enhancer) gives you full control of the air/fuel mixture on any fuel injected engine* by attenuating the analog signal of either the MAF (Mass Air Flow) Sensor or the MAP (Manifold Absolute Pressure) Sensor. This allows you to increase your fuel economy while tailoring the settings to work with your driving habits and horsepower needs.

Most newer vehicles only need one adjustable parameter, however, the Optimizer is designed with two identical adjustment circuits giving you the ability to fine tune for low speeds under 40 MPH ('city') and a fine tuning for higher speeds ('Highway'). Plus, the control console can return your vehicle to it's normal operation or set for 'Performance' when extra horsepower is needed under a heavy load.


here's another one:

http://www.fuelsaver-mpg.com/store/

The purpose of this site is to bring to you gas savers that really work, thus saving you money, increasing the performance of your car, and making your car more environmentally friendly. Our current product line is limited to EFIE (Electronic Fuel Injection Enhancment) devices.

I am planning on installing my own HHO generator and have ordered the Protium engine optimizer. Don't know if it'll work but what the heck...won't know until I actually try it.

I am not affiliated with any of the above websites.

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I think that HHO assisted cars are better than any electric hybrid vehicle out there...but there's still a lot of work to be done to ensure safety. There are many different approaches to it and I simply don't like the use of baking soda in an HHO generator which I read (not really sure if it's true since I'm not a chemist) may generate poisonous gasses.

I have found some HHO generation products that uses straight tap water which would be the most economical and safer that baking soda based kits.

leaning out the engine is quite easy now with the products I've listed above and you can even build your own, there are plenty of schematic diagrams out on the net.

I think that if more people start tinkering with it and the HHO community grows, standards can be established. it is somewhat of a "cottage industry" right now but there are many manufacturers out there with good to excellent HHO generators being marketed.

I think that one thing that needs to be solved is the high amperage needed in order to generate enough HHO gas but with voltage modulators, it can be done as well. http://www.protiumfuelsystems.com has HHO generators which I think are among the best in the market right now, and their Optimizer is well built as well that would allow the engine to be leaned out. I am not attached to any of the websites above but I do think that Protium products are good (at least from what I've seen so far).

I am still on the early stages of creating my own kit myself and looking forward to boosting my mpg to around 60 mpg. My civic has been getting 38 mpg with hypermiling techniques, a fuel heater, and Acetone/Xylene fuel additive, but it appears that I'm surpassing that now with the installation of Halo spark plugs (www.greenplugs.com). I'm just on my first gas tank with the Halo plugs but at 125 miles driven and not even a quarter tank spent (used to get around 90 to 100 miles for a quarter tank) it looks like it is working pretty well. I'm sure that it will get better with the other mods I'm planning and ultimately will get maximum results when I install an HHO generator (just the basic mason jar kit for now).

I am quite pleased with my results so far.
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