Way off topic but, strange why have I never seen a picture of your truck.
Your sig makes me so curious

 

^^^^^^

 

Yep... Pretty far off topic...

 

picture loaded

 

Okay it's as nice as I figured.
Continue with whatever other stupidity was goin on here.

 

I figure that since we've solved all of the world's energy supply issues for all time with a cobbled-together backyard system we can just kick back and relax for a while.

 

Sounds good to me broman.
Reminds me of a group of technical drawing and shop teachers that were making a system using those steel plates and I think maybe it was chlorine? Or straight chloride..
Anyway it was supposed to yield like 75% better gas mileage. I lololololol'd at him everyday when he would talk about this crap.
And it was going on his mustang II with a 4 banger

 

Adrianspeeder

 

uh...

 

What he said was just basic thermodynamics.

Nobody is saying it takes "too much power" to separate the hydrogen, just that the amount of energy it takes to do so is greater than the energy you get from using said hydrogen.

Ok, so the "weird unit" on the wheel creates power, great, do you know how it does that?

In order to run the "small generator" the "weird device" has to draw a parasitic load from the wheel. Said another way, the axle acts like a drive shaft to power the "weird device". Only problem is, since the axle is acting as a drive shaft and now turns both the wheel and the "weird device", more power is needed to turn the axle, which requires the engine burn more fuel than it otherwise would. At this point you've just lost any "gains" from the "weird device" because however much energy the "weird device" created (electrical in this case) is less than the energy required to run the "weird device" (burning fuel to turn the engine, to turn the drive shaft, to turn the axle, to power the "weird device").

On top of that, you said the hydrogen separator runs of 12v or 24v. So the "weird device" creates power to run the separator, but now you lose even more energy because no electrical device is 100% efficient. So here again, whatever power you put into the water, you get less total energy in the system once the hydrogen is separated.

Scientific laws are not opinion.

Since you don't know much about chem the underlying issue is this: every different type of combustible fuel has a finite amount of energy stored within its chemical bonds. When you burn the fuel you liberate that energy. You can do all kinds of things with that energy, but one thing you cannot do is create more energy than you started with.

That's like saying you can eat a 2 pound steak then take a 3 pound dump.

Now if you want to lean out your engine like other people with HHO systems have done, be my guest. Leaning out an engine can increase MPGs, but you'll pay for it in the long run with damage to the engine and supporting systems.

- NCSU