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Old 03-12-2011, 03:53 PM   #11 (permalink)
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With the ever increasing fuel costs projected to be in the $5 range this summer has anyone here had any luck with hydrogen boosters assisting a gas powered passenger car engine ?
If you search the forum for HHO or electrolysis, you'll find quite a few lively threads about on-board hydrogen generation.

Most people on here don't believe it can work, basically because you can't gain more energy than you put in.
Combine that with the built-in inefficiency of using an engine and alternator to generate electricity, and you're stuck in a lose-lose situation.


A Turkish university recently claimed a self-supporting hydrogen (or HHO / Brown's gas) set-up worked in their testing, but they didn't add any substantiated evidence beyond simply claiming it.
Substantiating one's claims is of paramount importance in scientific experimenting - so much so that I doubt many researchers will spend their time trying to reproduce the Turkish experiment.


It is, however, known that adding H2 - or any gas that can be burned - to an engine can give you improved mileage.
Something similar is being done with LPG and CNG being added to diesel engines.

The real problem is in generating the gas efficiently.

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