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Old 06-21-2009, 03:55 AM   #25 (permalink)
Allch Chcar
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You'd want to collect the hydrogen not the HHO or Brown's Gas as they call it. Either way storing the gas is hard to achieve economically. Brown's Gas is useful only if you wanted to add it to the air intake of your engine. It'd take a good bit of time to collect enough hydrogen to make a dent in your trips unless you plug it into your home and pump up the rate or used several hundred watt solar panels.

It'd be more cost effective to use the electricity for recharging an electric car. Electrolysis is still very inefficient technology. Unless you were trying to improve the technology. Then it's for research and uses a totally different system for deciding if something is worthwhile. There's a reason it's just a hobby research program.
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