Subject: Water Injection
Water injection systems are often used in turbo charged cars to
cool the compressed boost air which does the same as raising the
octane, lessening the chance of preignition (spark knock). But
is something more going on?
Why not just use the Joe Cell charged water and this home made
water injector:
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000393047637/
Some of the follow on comments are interesting.
Very sharp! Holy-ram....
Inject the "preconditioned" or charged-water, instead of normal
water, and one can dispense with a lot of the problems of getting
the water ions into the combustion chamber "just-in-time" ...?
The problem would be keeping them from being neutralized by the
injector itself. Wonder if that can be solved by floating it (and
the engine too) at a negative potential?
Come to think of it... this is all so sharp that it is merging
into the idea of Jimmy Lee (of Sharper Image fame) ... except it
is going one-better for both Jimmy and Joe and Yull.
BTW, as posted before by Mark Goldes, a few years back Jimmy Lee
slapped a Sharper Image ionizer onto this VW diesel truck:
http://www.zenion.com/news.html
and reported incredible mileage (something like ~100 MPG ?) before
the valves burned-out (after a few days, due to ionic
corrosion)... His patent is close to expiring now.
You really need a ceramic valveless engine for proper
implementation of charged-water-fuel, at least eventually. That is
why these guys in Oz are using el-cheapo engines, and that
necessity is causing mixed results as the engine itself has been
through the wringer, as they say.
If the thing runs on water, and you want some verification - then
you better get the eye-witnesses there PDQ, because the lifetime
of valves, under charged-oxidizing conditions, is measured in
hours. Fortunately old, oil-encrusted valves probably last longer
than new ones.
I vote for a ceramic Wankel as the ideal way to go for the long
term ...
If the Prius cost $1 billion to engineer, this baby will be
pushing ten - but who cares if it runs on water? actually who
cares if it gets 100 MPG on gasoline + charged water?
Jones
