Hydrogen Conversion for Cars
I’ve just seem more nonsense for supposedly increasing fuel economy in vehicles. Various companies are selling products that are supposed to increase fuel economy or convert your car into running on water. These things all work the same way. They take water, pass electricity through it from the car’s electrical system, break the water down into hydrogen and oxygen, and burn the resulting gasses in the cylinders of the car.
These systems sell for from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Some even claim they will run your car on nothing but water. This is all a load of nonsense. It takes energy to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen. It takes more energy than you get from burning the resulting hydrogen and oxygen. Water is not a source of chemical energy. Water is a product of combustion. You can not run your car on water as an energy source.
There is a lot of talk these days about a hydrogen economy and use of hydrogen as a fuel source. Hydrogen is not available in its elemental state on earth. It is bound with oxygen in water, or bound to carbon in methane and petroleum. Hydrogen in fossil fuels combines with oxygen in the atmosphere to release chemical energy and combine into water. If you want to use hydrogen as a fuel, you will have to supply energy to generate the free hydrogen in the first place. In a car engine system, using electrical energy from the alternator to generate hydrogen from water will not supply net energy to your engine. You will lose more energy to heat and inefficiencies of electrolysis than you will gain from burning the resulting hydrogen in an inefficient engine.
Do not waste your time or money trying to get something for nothing. You will only lose whatever money you spend on this system. You can not improve your gas mileage by recycling mechanical energy from the engine to generate fuel gasses. I can’t believe people get away with selling such ridiculous systems. This is a ripoff. Your car can not run on water as fuel. You will only decrease your mileage and compromise your engine by installing any such hydrogen generator in your car.
This technology has really gotten me to think hard about converting.
There will be a way to be able to use electrolysis in some way shape or form, to separate H2 & O, to power our cars. Some genius will figure it out and will become a billionarie because of it. To say it can’t be done is sheer ignorance, or a scheme of the oil monopoly.