Comments on: Converting my car to a water-powered hybrid (Part 1)

By: bob

bob — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:37:43 +0000

@Mookherji and anyone else…

You can find out more about the progress of the HHO experiment here…

By: mookherji`

mookherji` — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:43:47 +0000

hi, what is you present update.. i am very much interested to know about it….

By: bob

bob — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:03:00 +0000

Matt, I agree, but supposedly here, they expect to see a certain level of “pollutants” coming out, if they don’t they think you rigged it or are trying to trick the computer and your car fails… I haven’t researched this, it is just what I hear…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:59:17 +0000

How would it not pass emmissions tests? Is water vapor now a pollutant?

By: bob

bob — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:24:17 +0000

@gas saver

I agree and I think that is why it is so difficult to find anyone trying to mass produce these things… from what I understand about our local emissions is that it wouldn’t pass with this on, so it will have to be removed every year or two for emissions testing

By: Gas Saver

Gas Saver — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:17:10 +0000

From a manufacturer’s standpoint, there’s more to think about than weather or not it works. They have warranty, regulatory, emissions, and longevity concerns to deal with. In addition, personal liability lawyers would have a field day with the whole concept of explosive hydrogen cylinders / cells under a vehicle’s hood.

There are many mods that would work great for you to use on your personal vehicle, but for many reasons wouldn’t work for a manufacturer to implement on production vehicles.

By: bob

bob — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:56:19 +0000

@HIB
Don’t know what an electrolyzer is? Should I?

@Vhiggins
technically this would be safer than the actual Hydrogen cells, because this is hydrogen on demand – so it is a cell full of water that is converted as needed to hydrogen. The hydrogen fuel cell cars that are starting to be sold seem to have a bit more of that danger factor you mention…

Either way, yes there is some risk, I will be careful – I promise

@thecase
I think that is right – time will tell I guess… I will keep you and everyone else updated…

By: theCase

theCase — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:16:13 +0000

So… you burn gasoline to run the engine, to run the alternator, to make electricity, to make hydrogen to be burned…. is that right? Somehow I don’t think this will work.

Oh and alternators do not make “excess” electricity that’s just being wasted.

Regardless of the blatant disregard for the 1st law of thermodynamics, ohms law, and entropy, I wish you good luck!

By: VHiggins

VHiggins — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:12:24 +0000

One question… is the explosiveness a risk if you’re in an accident?

By: HIB

HIB — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:02:17 +0000

Pretty cool experiment. Yes, you should be pretty cautious when using H2. When I worked for a fuel cell company, we had high pressure H2 cross over to the O2 side that really messed up that wall of the lab. Good thing everything was in a cage.

Where did you purchase the electrolyzer?

Also, that MIT article is a lot more hype than anything in my humble opinion. We built electrolyzers and fuel cells for unmanned missions and the main negative about electrolyzers isn’t so much the cost or the ph of the system, it was the weight of the system and the efficiency of the process.

My 2 cents,
HIB