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Old 09-19-2016, 04:54 AM   #150 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zackary View Post
If you'd need 20% hydrogen and 80% gasoline to make the hydrogen effective as a lean burn catalyst you'd need one hell of a super efficient hydrogen generator in order to outweigh the losses and at the same time the engine better be super efficient, like 50% efficient, to begin with.
Which is basically what anyone and everyone looking at the various methods of combustion enhancement already knows.

Honestly... water is already an effective method of enabling ultra-lean burn... there's no need to go the extra step of splitting it into oxygen and hydrogen through a wasteful, energy-intensive process.

Bosch Water Injection Designed to Cut Fuel Consumption and Carbon Emissions
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