Went to Auburn Indiana Classic Car show in early Sept... The cars back then had a generator instead of an alternator. Now there are claims from Hydrogen Garage LLC, that adding a water cell 12 volt electrolysis as an alternator load, and by the engine using the HHO product on demand from the cell, that up to a 45% increase of efficiency is noted. I have bought their experimental demonstration cell for 175$ and will be looking at these claims with an automobile installation.
Then I was reminded about the old school ideas about why the alternator superceeded the generator, because it could produce power on demand by virtue of an energized rotating field electromagnet by slip ring conductions. But this method of mechanical conversion to electrical energy must be lower in efficiency then the natural principle employed in the rotation of actual magnets as the mechanical energy input of a generator. The disadvantage of a generator is of course that it is continually loading down the engines horsepower by addition of mechanical load, or essentially working for nothing when no load is extracted. In contrast however its efficiency of load transfer energy is high compared to it's alternator equivalent, where additional energy is used to energize the field itself. In the new situation where the presumably high current drain from the alternator water cell electrolysis redeems itself as a further gain in engine horsepower, similar to the Auburn Auto Co.s supercharger concept of using a portion of the mechanical output energy as a feedback loop to alter the parameters of the input energy action; the same principle here may be true electrically. Thus here, if the cell is connected continually as an electrical load during engine operation, the generator as an option now becomes viable since there will always be a load available for it's outputs, and this is being done as efficiently as known possible. Thus in coordination with new automotive concepts here, the old style generator concept may still deem itself feasible. Sincerely HDN Pioneering the Applications of Interphasal Resonances http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/
