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Originally Posted by Photonfanatic
Ok thanks for the explanation. What about just using it as a sort of makeshift accelerant? It may be better used there, instead of what many people wanted to use it as, which is a partial fuel substitute.
It also brings to mind a question, about those hydrogen powered cars. If hydrogen is a powerful enough fuel to power a car, (which we all know it is) then it just seems like there would be something to the HHO generator after all. If using pure water, then 1/3 of the gas produced by the HHO generator would indeed have to be hydrogen.
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The energy used to make the HHO (which itself is incorrect nomenclature -- it is a mixture of H2 and O2... this is part of the "magic" from the early fraudulent days of such stuff, with the first patent in 1914, IIRC) comes from the engine turning the alternator. If you work through the thermodynamics, you find that it takes about 5 times as much fuel going into the engine as the energy value of the HHO coming out of the electrolysis unit.
The issue is not that the stuff in there is H2 and O2. It is that it costs more energetically to create the stuff than you get from burning it in your engine.
For more detail, you can go here:
CR4 - Thread: The Unlucky 13 HHO Lies