On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Andrew Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 14:18 -0600, Kimball Larsen wrote: >> Following on the discussion about gas prices, I have also (for several >> weeks, now) been researching the claims of the so called "Run Your Car >> On Water!" conversion kits. >> >> I have found lots of information claiming that they are the greatest >> thing since sliced bread, and lots of naysayers claiming that the >> effect they claim is impossible due to the laws of thermodynamics. > > Those pesky laws. Okay, so think about it clearly now: The basic idea > is to use electricity to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. This > HHO gas mixture is then burned as fuel. But where did the electricity > come from? If you were to take the gasoline out of the picture entirely > you would have a system were an HHO engine is supposed to create enough > energy to move your car and create more HHO fuel. If you don't see a > problem here please request a refund from your university and / or high > school. > > That being said it's conceivable that the addition of some kind of > non-gasoline fuel (maybe even HHO) might improve the completeness of the > combustion of the gasoline or otherwise increase the efficiency of the > engine by some means. Perhaps the water vapor created helps to cool the > engine or something. > > Another way you can detect this kind of BS is by looking at how it's > presented. One site I looked at had a video of a company demonstrating > hydrogen fuel cells. Since these are two very different technologies I > can only conclude that the fuel cell video is smoke. Another site had a > video of a girl in a short skirt telling you that the technology really > works and is affordable. > > If it really worked you wouldn't be skeptical because it wouldn't be > surrounded by the BS that normally surrounds this kind of flim-flam. >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyhydrogen_flame Wikipedia agrees with you. -Dennis /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
