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Originally Posted by 1.5Ldave
Research shows that hydrogen boosting a gas motor has the potential to work, even if the technology to make it truly efficient is not widely available yet. Most people are quick to hate on the idea, calling it perpetual motion etc, but to date no one has any conclusive documented proof either way; therefore I will remain undecided until the time some hard data is available.
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You are correct and I completely agree that "hydrogen boosting a gas motor has the potential to work"...unfortunately if you use energy from the engine to produce the hydrogen that you're going to burn in the engine then the net result is zero....actually negative result theoretically given thermal losses. Go look up "conservation of energy". Conservation of energy is an incredibly well established principle. The spliting of H2O into 2H and O uses a certain amount of energy. When you rejoin the 2H and O you gain that energy back. So that gives you a net gain of 0 (zero)...minus the thermal losses (energy lost as heat in the convertion of water to 2H and O and energy lost when the convertion is reversed). So your net gain when using HHO is negative. The reason you don't see the "losses" from using an HHO is that you are using such a minimal amount of water in the HHO that you don't even notice it. But the bottom-line is that you are using more gasoline in the end and decreasing your gas mileage (though unnoticable).