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LMAO Is that all you got?

That's your energy plan? Put water in our cars, when we can just drill for oil? I'm voting for McCain.


/sarcasm

Not what?

Good Lord.

Smash & gbaji teaming up to paint paulsol's rainbow grey?

Next thing you'll be telling him that the Prius doesn't do a bajillion miles per litre and the commercials are bullpoop.

Dis? Dis from a Shrewsbury goi?

You kiss yo momma wit dat Salopian mout' ?

So, when he normally gets about 460km to the tankful on a long run, and on this last run, he filled his tank 3 times and got about 550-570km per tankful, it had nothing to do with the hydrogen??

Cheers! I'll let him know that he must have driven downhill the whole way there and back.

You got us there ace.

When my car was new-ish, I wanted to see what it would do in terms of fuel economy. I drove to Scotland and back at about 56mph and went easy on acceleration & deceleration.

Result was 715 miles on a tank.

Last week I thrashed the motor around winding country lanes and emptied a tank in less than 480 miles.

Dr Science says you suck.

A setup like that will give you a small power increase.

Yeah, no. Christ. Burning Hydrogen you free from water turns it back into water at a 1 to 1 rate. You can never, ever, gain *any* energy at all doing so.

****, kids, 8th grade Chemistry.

He's coming over tommorrow to resurface my driveway. Should I cancel??

I actually know someone who had gypsies paint her driveway and demand payment. She was a Judge. Poor choice of mark.

My bulgarian friend hates gypsies. Calling someone a gypsy is about as big of an insult as possible to him. I don't know the Bulgarian-Gypsy details behind all that...

/swoon.

Nexa

You're correct. You don't gain energy, but you can reduce the loss of energy. Specifically, the electrical energy generated by your internal combustion motor is mostly lost if it's not used. It's constantly charging your battery, and your alternator modifies the amount of charge to meet the draw on the electrical system. Does your car get worse gas mileage if you're running the radio? Or if you have your lights on? No, it doesn't. Ok. It does, but by such a tiny amount that it's not worth mentioning. Generating electrical power is a byproduct of operating an internal combustion engine. It's not completely "free", but given how motors are constructed and how the electrical system on your car works, you're paying basically the same cost in mechanical energy regardless of how much electrical energy you draw from the system.


If he was converting the water into hydrogen and then converting the hydrogen back into electrical power, you'd be absolutely correct. There would always be a net negative in that system. But in this case, he's tapping into electrical energy that he's basically already paid for and using it to convert water into hydrogen. If he burns that, it's a net gain. A *tiny* net gain, but clearly it will increase the total energy produced on a single cylinder stroke. Physics and all that.

The real issue is just how little that will actually help in terms of mechanical energy produced. The amount of relatively "free" electricity generated from the cars electrical system just can't possibly generate enough hydrogen over time to add significantly to the motor's mechanical energy output. A compression system would give each stroke more power, and if the engine was tuned/designed for this, that would result in less gas consumed, but you can't generate enough hydrogen to compress using that system. You'd need a much larger tank.

In theory if you designed your system to generate and compress hydrogen while the engine was at low RPM (idling/coasting), and then only inject it into the engine when at high RPM (accelerating), you might be able to get a somewhat measurable benefit. But the idea that an add-on kit is going to generate that much savings? Oh. And even then, it's not that great, since internal combustion engines are less efficient at low RPMs than high. You're going to see a savings versus not doing anything, but again, it's primarily because you're reducing your lost energy, not really adding extra energy.

Nobby's dictionary is simpler:

Pikey = Move away from the automobile