Chronic Don
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How-about hydroxy gas generation via high frequency electrolysis ? Fact, Stan Meyers did it, drove his car across America on a gallon of water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ3juM6vHwg
Boom, just solved the energy crisis in 10 seconds :friends:
ya no it doesn't work. it takes more energy in electricity to produce the hho gas in enough quantities to sustain an engines needs to produce that amount of electricity.
energy in>energy produced no such thing as perpetual motion
now if you could produce the gas with using a solar/wind power source and store it in suficient quantities (that is after seperating the hydrogen from the oxygen so as to not have a bomb) then yes you could run a car on water.
the electrolysis of water produces 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of oxygen per water molecule floating around seperately but together, in the very low concentrations that those small units you see on youtube running a vehicle its safe to have the air intake breathe it in mixing with the air to mix with the gas vapors. it sufficient quantties to fully run the car the mixture would be so strong it would be a bomb, think oxygen mixed with afuel equals bomb.
I had planned on building such a unit, until I figured out how much hho it would take to run an engine and how many gallons of water would need to be electrolysised into hho gas to run a car any distance and the amount of amps of electricity it would take to do so. A cheap source of electricity, cheap seperation of gases, cheap storage and pressure system to store enough, and an engine designed to run a car and run on pure hydrogen is needed before water becomes a viable fuel