Quote Originally Posted by J57ltr View Post
The thing is that you can produce hydrogen, but not in the volume you would need to run a car off of the cars electrical system, it just ain't happening. I had a guy that wanted me to build an HHO generator and had a several hundred page manual that was just a bunch of double speak and half truths. The schematic was simple, but the amount of energy needed would have to come from somewhere else. A car couldn't run and build up enough to keep it going for any length of time. That didn't even take into account metering it to the engine it was just a tube that led to the carburetor there was no way of throttling the outgoing gas. It was ridiculously ludicrous.

Jeff

Exactly! The amount of energy required to produce hydrogen is greater then the energy output of the hydrogen! Hydrogen stores very low amount of energy compared to gasoline. It takes large amounts of electricity to produce a reasonable quantity of hydrogen that would sufficiently contribute to providing energy to push a piston down. Never mind getting into the dynamics of how hydrogen burns, burn rate, stoich, etc that would need to be accounted for in the engine to be efficient.

If there was any inkling of reasonableness to his claims I would be shoving snow down into my gas tank right now! LOL