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From: Among javelinas and scorpions in Zoniestan
You may be disappointed that no one's answered your question. My guess is, it's because most of us don't think the hydrogen generators work.
Consider: When hydrogen and oxygen combine, energy is released in the form of heat and water is formed. Now, to separate those two elements, you have to somehow put the energy that was lost during the combination process back into the water molecule to restore the individual hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
No one has yet found a way to produce a 100% efficient process. If there was such a thing, we'd have a perpetual motion machine. So, you're going to expend MORE energy to separate the atoms than you could ever gain back by recombining them in the car's combustion chamber. These things can't possibly improve your MPG figures.
You could probably save on gas by adding pure hydrogen from a liquid hydrogen tank to the gasoline/air mix and you could save even more by replacing the air with pure oxygen from a liquid oxygen tank. But of course, if you did that, you wouldn't need gasoline at all. Naturally, the cost of liquid hydrogen and LOX would be more than the cost of gasoline it replaces, but what the heck, you'd never visit a fuel pump again and you'd be driving a "bomb" - literally!
Why waste your money?
- Jack
Consider: When hydrogen and oxygen combine, energy is released in the form of heat and water is formed. Now, to separate those two elements, you have to somehow put the energy that was lost during the combination process back into the water molecule to restore the individual hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
No one has yet found a way to produce a 100% efficient process. If there was such a thing, we'd have a perpetual motion machine. So, you're going to expend MORE energy to separate the atoms than you could ever gain back by recombining them in the car's combustion chamber. These things can't possibly improve your MPG figures.
You could probably save on gas by adding pure hydrogen from a liquid hydrogen tank to the gasoline/air mix and you could save even more by replacing the air with pure oxygen from a liquid oxygen tank. But of course, if you did that, you wouldn't need gasoline at all. Naturally, the cost of liquid hydrogen and LOX would be more than the cost of gasoline it replaces, but what the heck, you'd never visit a fuel pump again and you'd be driving a "bomb" - literally!
Why waste your money?
- Jack
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From: Among javelinas and scorpions in Zoniestan
- Jack