Thread: test results back from hydrogen

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Interesting, I am replying to maintain contact with this thread. Keep the hose to the carb sealed, free hydrogen leaking out would/can be hazardous! Today is the last day to get the plans book for $50. I am interested and tracked back the HHO name and found it is related to a history of what is to me a sad mixture of 90% hucksterism and 10% scientific genius. I know a little about the HHO group and I do not dismiss the idea that in there somewhere there is some important technology but unfortunately they sell their ideas with a heavy load of made up names and other baloney that covers up the good part of their ideas. Sooo, thanks for the picture. If you could also show the carb inlet I would appreciate it very much because I am mainly concerned with the safety aspect of generating a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen and having it leak out after the engine is turned off. Perhaps with some sort of check valve and an ignition key turnoff this system can be made safe. Yes, I believe it does take slightly more electrical energy to do the electrolysis than is recovered in the combustion but I think it could work by using excess charge from the alternator to electrolyze small amounts of water ready to add to the hydrocarbon charge. I do agree that only 18 cc of water (about a shot glass full) can be electrolyzed to about 33 liters of combustible gas (O2 + H2) so the claim that water is a "condensed fuel" is technically correct, assuming full electrolysis. It appears that the folks making the money on this are the HHO folks selling the books for $50 and credit is due to mooneye777 for actually building and getting it to work. How many books will be sold for which no one builds the device? If there is sufficient safety built into the design I might try to build one too, but I would like mooneyes77 to comment on the safety of the relatively small amount of gas fuel that is left in the electrolysis generator when the ignition is shut off, is there a check valve?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder