ALTERNATIVE FUEL * USA - DOT Says Run Your Car on Water Technology Works
The critics say that this hydrogen on demand technology simply cannot work. A document by the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT) stating that the critics are wrong
Washington,DC,USA -Green Tech Gazette -August 20, 2008: -- ... Yes, the DOT report, which is about the safe handling of hydrogen, states that “hydrogen injection” as they call it does reduce emissions and increase gas mileage... The report talks mostly about fuel cell cars or vehicles with internal combustion engines that run on compressed hydrogen gas or liquid hydrogen. It does, however, also give some room to cover hydrogen injection systems (focused on diesel engines) including the electrolysis of water... The DOT document focuses on run your car on water technology for diesel engines since this has been more widely developed and publicly acknowledged for use with long haul trucks... The point is that government acknowledgement of this emerging run your car on water technology is a good first step. No longer can there be a valid argument on whether or not this technology works... The only real question is “How well can I get it to work?”...
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I am skeptical about the water - h2 O - water system that I have heard of.
Where using some sort of catalyst coil and electrolysis water is split into hydrogen and oxygen -- that part is pretty straight forward high school chemistry.
Then the hydrogen and oxygen are brought together and combustion -- or oxydation takes place forming water vapour/steam as exhaust. That part is fairly straight forward high school chemistry.
The problem comes in that energy is required to split the oxygen from the hydrogen in that first stage... that energy is greater than that released by the combustion due to no process being 100% efficient and even if it were... you would only get the same energy out that you put in. In fact less if the exhaust is steam while you put in cooler liquid water...
Now if it does work... I can only imagine that catalyst coil is related to those cold fusion experiments done in the 1980's or 90's with catalysts and coils and so a part of the energy is coming from the fusing of hydrogen coming from the water.
-shrug-
I would have to see it really, or see some agency testing it that was independent and reliable. I have seen to much hocus pocus on the Internet. Hey, how much education in thermodynamics do you know that I might or might not have?
~ Darrell
http://gnomesteadstump.blogspot.com/
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