Hydrogen Cars
Hydrogen cars are the future, baby! Not only are hydrogen cars the future of automotive travel as we know it, they are here right now, among us. Did you know that? Hydrogen cars are not some George Jetson fantasy, but they are here now and are being shown off all over the world.
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When some people think of hydrogen cars, they immediately think of the Hindenburg. The Hindenburg was a big, German zeppelin filled with hydrogen that caught fire, blew up in dramatic fashion and killed a bunch of people. People think this early hydrogen vehicle blew up because of the hydrogen which is totally false. The skin of the zeppelin was coated with the equivalent of jet fuel and it caught fire and went down in flames. It wouldn’t have mattered if the aircraft were filled with helium, oxygen or feathers – the same thing would have happened.
So, hydrogen cars have gotten a bad rap because of this. Is hydrogen totally safe? Of course not. H2 is combustible like other fuels such as gasoline, diesel, natural gas, methane or ethanol. All fuels, including hydrogen need to be handled with care.
So, what is the deal about hydrogen cars anyways? Well, these cars will change the way we breathe for one thing. The only emissions from a hydrogen car is a small amount of water vapor. This water vapor can even be trapped, electrolyzed and run back through a fuel cell to generate more power for the car. How about that for efficiency and economy?
Hydrogen cars are powered by three main sources. Most use fuel cells to generate electricity and power the car via electric motors. A few cars use internal combustion engines modified to accept hydrogen and burn it as fuel. A third type of hydrogen car uses a hydrogen compound to generate hydrogen-on-demand to power the vehicle. In this same category are the vehicles that do so by use of electrolysis. Much research, development and money is being poured into hydrogen fuel cell research as this is seen as the ultimate in green car technology.
Can you imagine pulling up to a fueling station a few years from now, filling up with hydrogen gas, then pulling away in a very quiet hydrogen car? The car is quiet because there is no internal combustion engine to make noise and has relatively few moving parts in comparison to a gasoline or diesel-powered engine.
If we wish to eliminate our addiction to foreign oil and clean up the environment at the same time, hydrogen cars will help do just that.
Posted on May 9th, 2008 by admin
Even though Toyota has just taken a financial hit regarding new car sales in North America this last quarter, the world’s leading automaker (arguably) in regard to sales, quality and technology has decided to continue on in the residential fuel cell market. Now, Toyota is no stranger to fuel cells as their FCHV hydrogen hybrid was recently clocked as having a range of about 485 miles, setting a record for fuel cell vehicles.
But, like the quality corporate citizen that they are Toyota is looking beyond the tailpipe to help reduce emissions and dependence upon oil. This will be the third year in a row that Toyota is participating in a Japanese government project to provide fuel cell cogeneration units for homes.
Toyota will send 24 fuel cells to Toho Gas Company, Limited, who will install them in residences in three different Japanese prefectures. The fuel cells are coupled with a hot water storage tank and because of recent improvements a 20-percent gain in heat recovery has been made.
So, what does the future hold? With a forward-thinking company like Toyota leading the charge, it is conceivable in the near future that well will be driving our Toyota fuel cell vehicles to work and back, then relax in the comfort of our Toyota fuel cell powered homes. Oh, what a feeling that would be.
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Posted on May 8th, 2008 by admin
The EnergyWhiz Olympics, sponsored by the University of Central Florida, featured the Hydrogen Sprint this past weekend to help high school students learn about alternative energy vehicles. Students were asked to design and built hydrogen fuel cell cars and then race them head-to-head.
The Hydrogen Sprint is designed to expose students to the potential of hydrogen as an alternative fuel source in the future. The high school students were also required to give a 10-minute speech on what they had learned about hydrogen by engaging in this competition.
Meanwhile, middle school students competed in the Hands-On-Hydrogen challenge. This challenge was part of the Department of Energy’s regional National Science Bowl competition, where students were also required to design, build and then race their hydrogen cars for top honors.
One of the winning teams, Miami’s Archimedean Middle Conservatory, will go onto compete in the National Middle School Science Bowl’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Challenge in Golden Colorado on June 19 – 22, 2008. The Archimedean team is made up entirely of sixth graders, the first time this has happened in the competition.
Competitions such as these give students exposure to hydrogen technology. By the time many of these students enter the workforce, they will be able to dive right into the field of alternative fuel vehicles and in particular hydrogen cars. Early education is the key to the clean, green jobs of tomorrow.
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Posted on May 7th, 2008 by admin
Hydrogen fuel cell maker UTC Power has reached a couple of milestones in powering both bus drivers and astronauts. UTC Power has just sold the largest procurement of fuel cells to bus operator AC Transit of Oakland, California.
AC Transit, who currently operates three hydrogen hybrid buses in the Northern California area has agree to buy eight 120 kW PureMotion® Model 120 fuel cells to power the company’s next generation buses. From past testing, AC Transit has found that the UTC Power fuel cells run at 70 to 100-percent higher efficiency than their diesel bus counterparts.
The fuel cells also are responsible for zero emissions out the tailpipe and a quieter ride for passengers, since the UTC Power design runs at near-ambient pressure. Besides the hydrogen buses running in Oakland, AC Transit also runs similar buses in Palm Desert, CA, Hartford, CT and in Belgium as well.
UTC Power has also passed another milestone with NASA by topping 100,000 operating hours in space. UTC Power fuel cells have been aboard all Space Shuttles providing onboard electrical power for the systems and drinking water for the astronauts.
In fact, according to Aerospace Online, “Every U.S. manned space mission during the past four decades has used fuel cell power plants built by UTC Power.” Cryogenic hydrogen and oxygen are used to feed the fuel cells and there are three UTC Power fuel cells per spacecraft.
From bus drivers to astronauts, UTC Power is providing clean electricity for vehicles and a glimpse into the future for emission-free transportation.
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Posted on May 6th, 2008 by admin
Separate efforts by separate agencies in a variety of countries to put hydrogen fuel cell buses on the road have lead to the Fuel Cell Bus Club. Including 33 hydrogen buses in all, the Fuel Cell Bus Club is comprised of the ECTOS, STEP and CUTE agencies.
ECTOS out of Reykjavík, Iceland stands for Ecological City Transport System. Hydrogen is being produced primarily by geothermal and hydropower and dispensed at the one public station that opened earlier this year serving the buses and several Toyota Priuses including a couple owned by Hertz Rental.
STEP (Sustainable Transport Energy for Perth) is an Australian enterprise based in Perth. The Perth hydrogen fuel cell buses have set the standard within the Fuel Cell Bus Club in regard to fuel economy and reliability. BP captures “waste hydrogen” from a local oil refinery, then ships this to Perth for the buses.
CUTE (Clean Urban Transport for Europe) has supplied the hydrogen fuel cell buses for the EU, including the cities of London, Madrid, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Stockholm, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Perth and Luxembourg. Most of the buses in the Fuel Cell Bus Club were manufactured by DaimlerChrysler and carry XCELLSIS Fuel Cell Engines.
The point of the Fuel Cell Bus Club is to combine forces among these different agencies and demonstrate the 33 buses across different countries (including the Hydrogen Link Network) and share information on technology, such as design, construction and operation. The Fuel Cell Bus Club also wants to exchange experiences among its members and collect findings.
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Posted on May 5th, 2008 by admin
C.En (Clean Energy) of Israel has discovered a new way to store hydrogen that will aid in the acceleration of rolling out hydrogen cars en mass to the public. While other manufacturers are using heavy metals, carbon fiber or metal hydrides to store hydrogen gas, C.En has figured out a way to use glass to store the gas at high pressures and for ranges over 350 miles.
According to JewishJournal.com, “C.En’s tank uses hydrogen gas collected from the environment (i.e., not produced from fossil fuels) and enclosed in a thin but leak-proof glass container. The best part: Drivers will be able to buy ‘gas’ at automotive or discount stores, fueling up approximately every 370 miles.”
Think about this for a moment. With this new model of storing hydrogen gas, fueling will no longer be tied to hydrogen fueling stations that model the current gasoline station infrastructure. The key is that the new C.En hydrogen tanks are swappable and that one extra tank can be carried aboard the vehicle as a backup.
This means that similar to buying and swapping out propane tanks for a barbeque at local discount stores, gasoline stations or convenience stores, the same could be true for hydrogen canisters as well. Under this model, hydrogen can be produced in either a centralized or decentralized manner, packaged in reusable canisters and shipping to a wide variety of locations where consumers can return their empties and swap them out for full canisters.
Consumers may also wish to stockpile up on these tanks and store a few extra in their garages for future use. It’s this kind of outside-the-box thinking that will mean that future hydrogen fueling infrastructure does not have to look anything like the current gasoline fueling infrastructure. In the end, the consumer will win with scenario as they will have more choices on where to buy hydrogen, store it and swap it out as needed.
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by admin
A couple of months back, I had talked about the Hydrorunner G3 hydrogen boosting unit being sold by Bill Wylie and John Swangler at Check Engine Service Center in Tampa, Florida. A couple of days ago I had a conversation with Mr. Wylie about the Hydrorunner including the upcoming announcement that his company has teamed up with Ronn Motors in Austin, Texas.
According to Wylie, Ronn Motors is producing an exotic sports car called Scorpion, which is “like a Ferrari on steroids” that will include the Hydrorunner, for the purpose of increasing gas mileage and reducing emissions. The Scorpion will have a V6 bi-turbo gas engine.
What makes the Hydrorunner G3 unique among similar hydrogen fuel injection (HFI) units is that the Hydrorunner runs on tap water, uses no catalyst and is optimized with the help of a separate, secondary onboard computer. When I asked Mr. Wylie about the quality of the water needed, he said, “You can use any kind of water, tap water, water out of a creek or out of a garden hose.”
When I mentioned the mineral deposits left by tap water and possible degradation to the electrolysis unit, Wylie replied that the minerals left were negligible and that his company recommended that the hydrogen generator be flushed at the same time as every oil change.
I asked Mr. Wylie why his company doesn’t use a catalyst like other manufacturers of hydrogen boosters and he replied that “When you use a catalyst it affects the internal components of the engine.” He went onto say that the technical wizard behind the invention, John Swangler had found a proprietary method to avoid using a catalyst and this is one reason so many fleet managers were interested in this device right now.
Perhaps the most important part of the Hydrorunner G3 is not the electrolysis unit itself, but rather the secondary onboard computer that optimizes the flow of hydrogen on a per vehicle basis. Without the computer a vehicle can expect to generate 20 – 30 percent better fuel mileage.
With the help of the secondary computer that works in sync with the vehicle’s original computer, a car or truck can attain 84-percent or even higher mileage as I had mentioned in the last blog posting. Check Engine specializes in computer diagnostics and electronics, so coming up with a secondary computer for Hydrorunner was aligned with their technical expertise.
Wylie and Swangler started developing the Hydrorunner a little over a year ago when they opened Check Engine in 2007. Customers kept coming in and asking if there was anything Check Engine could do to help them save on gas. So, Wylie and Swangler started brainstorming a point-of-purchase product to sell to customers to help do just that.
In about a month they had a working prototype of the Hydrorunner and have been perfecting it ever since. The current price of the Hydrorunner G3 is $3,500 for gasoline-powered vehicles, $7,000 for diesel and $10,000 for Class A Tractors.
According to Wylie, “Affordability will come after provability, after we show real world results. Not everybody has $3,500 to $7,000 for the Hydrorunner, but prices will come down with economies of scale.” Mr. Wylie also stated that the Hydrorunner is transferrable between vehicles, so if you get a new car, they will port over the hydrogen generator for a service fee of a couple of hundred dollars.
I asked Mr. Wylie if he had contacted the military about his device since the U. S. government is a huge source for fleet vehicles and the military is constantly testing new alternative fuel vehicles. Mr. Wylie said that Battelle, who works with both the military and Department of Energy is interested in the Hydrorunner primarily because it doesn’t use a catalyst to achieve its results.
On a closing note, at a time when gasoline prices are at a record highs and energy independence is at the top of people’s minds, inventions such as this offer hope to many high-consumption fuel users. And in this regard, Bill Wylie quotes his partner John and says, “We’re not trying to invent the wheel, just make it go a little farther.”
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Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin
Presidents, princes, tycoons and actors are the latest recipients of the BMW Hydrogen 7 luxury car. April has been a very busy month for rolling out the BMW Hydrogen 7 as it has made its way to a couple of different continents and made it into the hands of a variety of notables.
On April 1 (and this is no joke), Prince Albert II (not in a can), the supreme head of Monaco, received the keys to the luxury zero emissions vehicle (ZEV). Handing over the keys to the BMW Hydrogen 7 was part of Monaco’s first ever environmental exhibition.
In the middle of April, J. D. Power, the founder and CEO of the huge corporation by the same name was also given the keys to test the vehicle for three weeks as part of the BMW Hydrogen 7 Pioneer Program. Handing the keys to J. D. “Dave” Power is a natural pairing since his global company is one of the largest customer satisfaction survey enterprises around, who specialize in researching consumer attitudes towards new car quality and long-term durability.
Last week, BMW CEO Dr. Norbert Reithofer presented the keys of the BMW Hydrogen 7 to President of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Pöttering. The President can partake of Germany’s eight hydrogen fueling stations during his test of the vehicle.
And, actor Jason Bateman, the star of Arrested Development has also gotten his hands on a BMW Hydrogen 7. Like Jay Leno, Will Ferrell and Ed Norton before him, Bateman is the latest candidate in the entertainment industry to be cruising red carpets in this ZEV.
But, now that the month of April is coming to a close, we’ll just have to see if May will continue the BMW “Stars in Cars” program. Most likely, the answer is two thumbs up.
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Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin
Even though the hydrogen movement has been going on for decades and has picked up steam in recent months and years due to high gas prices, it has always been lacking one thing: a theme song.
Well, now those days are over as the Hydrogen Highway song by Elmers Youngest has been released. Hydrogen Highway is an engaging country rock song aimed at rallying people around the cause of energy independence and cleaner air.
Hydrogen Highway is the ninth track on the album, “Elmers Youngest: A Kid With A Cause,” a CD featuring other important social topics such as homelessness, AIDS and drug addiction plus love of God and country.
According to Elmers, “Due to the oil crisis in our country and the need for alternative fueling, I felt that hydrogen was the way to go. Maybe if people’s hearts are touched by this song, it might motivate many, to a new approach regarding our oil dependence.”
Youngest got his musical and lyric-writing start in life as a child in Washington DC and Garrett Park, carrying protest signs and helping out at soup kitchens. Playing the piano by 8-years-old and original songs on his guitar by age 17, Youngest has since followed up his dreams with action.
A portion of the proceeds from Hydrogen Highway and the entire CD, (a smooth Southern blend of country, rock and jazz), will go to charity. So, don’t be afraid to jump on that hydrogen highway, my friends. And, when you do so, pop the Elmers Youngest disc into your CD player for that drive to work or a long road trip.
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by admin
The HydroGen Corporation has announced that they have started up a 400 kw hydrogen-powered phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) at ASHTA Chemicals in Ashtabula, Ohio. This full-scale commercial demonstration project uses “by-product hydrogen” from the ASHTA plant that is created in the production of chlor-alkali.
The electricity created by the HydroGen PAFC is used to help power the chemical facility. The HydroGen fuel cell prototype serves as a demonstration for several multi-megawatt fuel cell power plants to follow.
In the future, the 400 kw fuel cell will serve as the first of five such modules in a standard 2 MW “Power Island”. This HydroGen Power Island can then be scaled up to larger fuel cell power plants in the 6 MW – 30 MW range.
The chlor-alkali hydrogen fuel cell demonstration project in Ohio is not the first one of its kind, however. In March, I had talked about a chlor-alkali fuel cell power plant in The Netherlands, which had achieved over 4,000 operating hours.
In addition, the IWHUP (Integrated Waste Hydrogen Utilization Project) project in Canada is helping chemical companies that produce sodium chlorate use the waste hydrogen to power vehicles. IWHUP has estimated that chemical companies all over Canada waste enough hydrogen to power 200,000 fuel cell cars.
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Posted on April 25th, 2008 by admin
I received an email for Carolyn E. a few days back who makes several good points, so I thought I would post her words here along with my response.
Carolyn E.: “I was reviewing info on your site, as well as other websites. I have heard a lot about hydrogen cars and the big car companies that want us to think we will all have to buy a new car to get hydrogen power, but I have also found that there are plenty of people working on ways to convert existing vehicles to hydrogen power. This would seem to be not only more cost effective, but better for the environment, as the conversion could take place much quicker.
I also have read about the consumer protection agency attempting to stop companies who are actively trying to bring a product to the public that retrofits current vehicles. Is the real delay in bring hydrogen to the people the fact that big business is trying to maximize it’s profit in the conversion and ensure future profits as astronomical as those big oil is currently enjoying?
We don’t need a hydrogen fueling station on every corner to make this work. There are hydrogen generators out there, being used to generate hydrogen for prototype vehicles. Of course, if I had my own solar powered hydrogen generator and could convert my 8 year old minivan to use hydrogen, the profit of this new technology would be minimized, to say the least.
I, for one, am not interested in trading doing business with “big oil” companies in favor of doing business with “big hydrogen” companies. I feel pretty certain I would still be paying too much at the pump, but of course I could feel better about it because profits would not be going to Middle East conglomerates, and the fuel would be better for the environment.
People are getting angry out there, we know the technology exists to bring us a real alternative to oil, but there is a lot of foot dragging in an attempt to realize the “maximum profit” to this “new” technology.”
HK: “To take your points one by one, Quantum and a few others are converting gasoline powered internal combustion engines to run on hydrogen. Another alternative is to use a one of the hydrogen generators for cars and trucks that I have been talking about for the past several weeks that uses a small tank of water to supply supplemental hydrogen to one’s engine making it run more cleanly, get greater gas mileage while reducing emissions and dependence upon foreign oil.”
In the wake of record profits for the big oil company, it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if there were dragging their feet about spending money on hydrogen and other alternative energies.
It’s true that we don’t need a hydrogen fueling station on every corner. I recent weeks I’ve talked about the cost of building the hydrogen infrastructure and GM’s Larry Burns has stated that building only 12,000 fueling stations at $2 million apiece will put 70-percent of the people in this country within 2 miles of a station.
This is nowhere near the current number of gas stations estimated to be around 130,000 to date. In addition, most hydrogen cars are also hybrid vehicles and average twice the gas mileage as standard automobiles. So, the price of a gallon equivalent of hydrogen at $4.99 per liter at the Irvine, California station, is in effect closer to $2.50 per gallon because of the extended gas mileage of these vehicles.
Of course, we don’t have to build $2 million hydrogen stations to make this work either. A couple of days ago, I had talked about how to build a portable hydrogen fueling station and the costs are in the range of $300,000 to $400,000. These portable stations can be moved to where the cars are located such as fleet vehicle lots, stadium, mall and airport parking lots and other places where consumers may want mobile refueling of their vehicles.
The idea of Big Oil Companies transitioning into Big Hydrogen Companies is distasteful for many. Right now, there are several companies working hard to make sure that this scenario never happens. For instance, GM, General Electric and Honda are all working on home hydrogen refueling stations so that consumers can refuel their hydrogen cars in the privacy of their own garages.
Also, even though Shell Hydrogen, ChevronTexaco and BP are all oil companies doing a little research on hydrogen fueling stations, lets not forget that the biggest players in this market are not the oil companies but gas companies such as Air Products and Linde. Because of current and future competition, a smooth transition from Big Oil to Big Hydrogen is highly unlikely.
I agree with the foot dragging part. The automakers are frustrated that the hydrogen cars they are building are far outpacing the hydrogen fueling stations being build. The regulators don’t see to have plans to keep the build up of cars and fueling station in parity with on another.
As far as what we can do right now, there is always the hydrogen booster technology that will give consumers immediate results. I see this a good transitional technology until the hydrogen infrastructure is indeed built.
It seems ironic to me, that in California at least, that the Air Resources Board, which seems to have its fingers in pies of alternative energy vehicles has not even addressed hydrogen boosting technology as a resource for cleaning up the California emissions. Hydrogen cars, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric cars seem firmly planted on their radar, but hydrogen boosting, which can cut gas mileage and emissions by 20 to 80 percent is something that is not even on their maps.
Perhaps the 2008 Hydrogen Booster Rally that I talked about yesterday, would do well to make another road trip, this time from Maryland to Sacramento, California. A couple of laps about the CARB facility, honking horns and yelling about boosters should do it. Of course, many like myself would be pleased to see the video of this posted on.
Posted on September 6th, 2007 by admin
A hydrogen bike, powered by fuel cell, was unveiled in Shanghai, China at the 9th China International Exhibition on Gas Technology, Equipment and Applications trade fair. The hydrogen bike prototype was developed by the Shanghai Pearl Hydrogen Power Source Technology Company.
According to the company, their hydrogen bike components are lighter than those used in electric bikes, and the hydrogen bike can reach speeds of 15.5 mph with a range of around 60 miles. The tanks on the hydrogen bike which are mounted behind the seat take approximately 30 minutes to refill and compare favorably to an electric bicycle that takes upwards of 3 hours to recharge.
Shanghai Pearl Hydrogen has received several advanced orders for the hydrogen bike. Right now, the hydrogen fuel cell bike’s selling price is around $2,600. According to the manufacturer, by mass producing this hydrogen bike, the price will come down into the $500 range.
Golf carts and motorbikes are the next vehicles targeted for this same hydrogen fuel cell technology.
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by admin
THEN HERE ONLY…YOU CAN AFFORT IT JUST BELOW RM2,000 !
I received an email from Mark M. from Tallahassee, Florida on Monday who pointed me towards a video of a hydrogen engine that he’s been working on in his garage and perfecting. I asked for some more details about his project and here’s what he had to say:
Mark:
“I have been building engines since the seventies. […]
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Posted on November 20th, 2007 by admin
Wired is reporting that an entrepreneur from Tallahassee, Florida Mark Miller has created a small internal combustion engine that runs on hydrogen and electricity. The hydrogen is created on-demand from calcium hydride and water (or spit), which fuels the small motor.
The motor is rated at 6.4 horsepower in hydrogen mode and 3.1 horsepower in reciprocating […]
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Posted on November 14th, 2007 by admin
Thomas in Kansas sent me a few emails a couple of days ago. He is an entrepreneur who wants to build a wind-to-hydrogen facility from the ground up. I think the proposal is interesting so I’ve included it here.
Thomas: “I want to be the first to build a commercial sized hydrogen 2 fuel production facility […]
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Posted on April 9th, 2007 by admin
The Hydro Power Car forum is the true garage inventor’s dream message board, where those interested in building a better mousetrap congregate to share ideas about how to create supplemental hydrogen to power cars, lawnmowers and any other device that can be run on fossil fuels.
On this forum participants share ideas about successes and failures, […]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by admin
A garage inventor in Laramie, Wyoming has come up with a small hydrogen electrolysis unit that fits underneath the hood of a car, which will supplement a gasoline engine with hydrogen gas. According to the Associated Press, inventor Dennis Jarrett says his hydrogen unit can reduce emissions by as much as four times normal and […]
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Posted on September 1st, 2006 by admin
This seems to be “Video Week” here on the blog as this will be the third video I’ve posted a link to this week. I’ve been getting quite a few requests recently from people at the grassroots level who want to build their own hydrogen cars or at least hydrogen engines.
So, I came across this […]
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Posted on July 7th, 2006 by admin
The Grayson County News-Gazette out of Leitchfield, KY is reporting that a local man, Russell Cook, has developed a device to deliver hydrogen as an additive to the gasoline system of a car or truck that will increase gasoline mileage. Mr. Cook is calling his device the Aqua Quantum Fuel Saver.
The Aqua Quantum Fuel Saver […]
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by admin
Yesterday, Patrick K., an engineer, contacted me about the Smack’s Booster DIY (do-it-yourself) system that acts as a hydrogen generator for cars, trucks and motorcycles. This hydrogen boosting system helps increase gas mileage while reducing emissions by electrolyzing a small amount of water and injecting the hydrogen and oxygen into the vehicle’s intake.
Here’s how Patrick describes it:
“Standard electrolysis of water as investigated and reported on by Michael Faraday, cannot be disputed as it is very easily replicated and verified.
Performing low-rate standard electrolysis using 15 to 20 amps of current from the electrics of a vehicle, provides enough hydroxy gas to be used as an enhancer of the ordinary fuel burn of the vehicle’s engine.
In the same way that soaking a pile of bonfire material in petrol before lighting it, makes it catch light and burn much more rapidly than if no petrol were used, adding say, 1 to 2 lpm of hydroxy gas to the air being drawn into the engine acts as a burn enhancer for the engine fuel.
The resulting combustion inside the engine, extracts a far greater percentage of the fossil fuel energy from the burning mix. Not only that, but this raising of the quality of the combustion prevents un-burnt fossil fuel being pushed out of the exhaust.
The results are very beneficial. The engine has greater pulling power. The engine runs at a lower temperature. Engine life is increased. Any old carbon deposits inside the engine get removed by the improved burn quality. The exhaust gases are cleaned up entirely. This is bog-standard Engineering – nothing strange, nothing weird, everything by the book.”
Upon Patrick’s free energy website are many diagrams and descriptions that the DIY’er will find helpful. In addition, there are several other DIY hydrogen generators for cars that I’ve listed on the main website as well that are worth noting as well.
DONT ASK ME HOW MUCH THIS CAR WILL COST YOU…WHAT I KNOW IS THAT YOU CAN AFFORD TO CONVERT YOUR EXISTING CAR INTO POWER OF HYDROGEN CAR WITH ONLY RM1,000.
