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Originally Posted by Crazyrabbit
It appears there is a preponderance of scientific journal papers saying it works.
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Adding an easily combustable gas will certainly help a diesel - it's being done with LPG and CNG.
It works if you add H2 from a bottle - but it'll be a fairly large and heavy bottle for it to hold any substantial amount of H2.
H2 has great power to weight, but lousy power to volume.
It won't work out anymore if you use engine power (inefficient) to generate electricity (alternator losses), then electricity to H2/O2 (more losses) before burning the generated H2/O2.
The inefficiency of the engine and alternator are so big that the minor gain from injecting H2 will vanish.
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The noted increases in NOx formation point to the temperature and pressure of combustion being raised substantially.
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And to more acid rain ...