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Originally Posted by ttoyoda
Finally, we ARE mixing up two things here, and maybe we should not- The generation of "browns gas" which is one technical problem
-Can engine combustion be made more efficient with addition of just hydrogen, or "browns gas"?, which is a different problem.
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Hydrogen gas definately burns in an ICE engine, I belive folks when they say Brown's gas burns, too. So no need to re-prove that.
They definately produce hydrogen gas comercially with electricity and water, which is fun to watch BTW, hydogen gas bubbling to the surface inside a belljar and piped away to be compressed. I saw it 10 years ago in a commercial operation where they used hydrogen as clean fuel to heat the vacuum brazing furnaces. It was cheaper to produce their own hydrogen on-site (even with a huge monthly electric bill) than to have it trucked in. So no earth shattering discovery there.
I think a big question is this; does <introducing hydrogen> unlock wasted BTU's from an incomplete gasoline burn or something. That would be news worthy and potentially mpg increasing if it did.
I suggest you add to you list:
-in a self contained HHO system (just add cheap H20 and sodium) can you 'gain' more energy (at the wheels), than you 'use' to generate the Brown's gas. (Raising the idle rpm and lowering emissions by introducing Brown's doesn't prove or dis-prove this.)