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(From Accurate Auto Advice, April 11th.)
A common advertisement
....
“Increase your gas
mileage 20-90% by adding a supplemental hydrogen generator to your
car! A supplemental hydrogen generator works simply enough
- you put distilled water in a special canister in your car, and
electricity from your car’s battery is used to separate that water
into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is added to your
car’s fuel because hydrogen burns very well (hydrogen is a very
combustible gas), and it reduces the amount of gas you use!
The oxygen is added to the air your car breathes in. Oxygen is needed
for combustion, and more of it makes your car more efficient. One
gallon of water is enough to provide oxygen and hydrogen for hundreds
of miles!
Here’s a nice graphic of the
system:
The hook is followed by lines
like ' the secret the oil companies don’t want you to know ' or '
automakers and oil companies are working to keep this technology out of
your hands ', etc. The websites (which I won’t link to because
they’re a complete and total rip-off) even sell parts or entire
mechanisms for adding a separator to your car. Unfortunately, there’s
a problem with this idea. It doesn’t work!
It’s impossible!
Here’s a summary of the system:
Step 1: Using
electricity from the battery, the system separates water into oxygen and
hydrogen. Keep in mind that the electricity in the battery is simple
stored electricity from your engine. The engine creates electricity by
turning your alternator, which powers your radio, headlights, turn
signals, etc., with any extra charging your car’s battery.
Step 2: The oxygen from
the separator is added to your air intake. More oxygen in the
air makes for better combustion.
Step 3: The hydrogen from
the separator is added to your fuel, reducing the amount of gasoline
your car uses.
Step 4: Hydrogen and
oxygen re-combine during combustion in your engine, releasing energy and
making your car go. Unfortunately, the engine also needs to
send electricity to your hydrogen separator in order to continue the
process. That brings us back to step one.
At best, this would be a
break-even process. While it is true that hydrogen can
supplement gasoline, it’s important to remember that whatever energy
you added to the water to get it to separate in step 1 doesn’t fall
from the sky - it comes from your engine. Whatever power you gain in
step 4 goes towards providing energy for step 1.
Here’s the ironic part!
Adding this equipment will probably reduce
your gas mileage! You’re pulling energy out of the engine to
break down water, but you’re going to loose some of that energy to
electrical resistance in the alternator as it charges the battery, heat
loss from the battery and the separator, and probably some combustion
efficiency loss because the engine’s computer won’t understand
what’s going on (the computer would need to be re-calibrated for the
un-naturally high oxygen in the intake air stream, not to mention the
hydrogen in the fuel).
There’ s a law called -
conservation of energy - whatever energy we put into something,
that’s the most we can get out of it. We add energy to water to make
oxygen and hydrogen, but whatever energy we get back can’t be more
than we added.
In other words, it’s a
scam.
REMEMBER
- WATER
IS NOT A FUEL!
Water is not a fuel - period.
Only the Hydrogen (or the combination of Hydrogen & Oxygen, HHO) in
water is a fuel.
It will always
take more energy to get the Hydrogen out of water than you will get from
it.
So, if you see videos of a guy pouring water in his car and claims it is
powering it...
it's pure B.S. There has to be a completely separate (and very
large) energy source to extract enough fuel from water on demand to
power any car.
Cars typically require around 700 to 1,000 liters of gas PER MINUTE
to
cruise at normal speeds.
These 'under the hood' kits you see for sale produce on average about 1
liter
of gas per minute.
It's simple math.
To avoid repeating the same information, have a look at an article that
Popular Mechanics
and Dateline NBC did investigating these HHO/Brown's Gas scams:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/how_to/4310717.html
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