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05-02-2006, 09:41 AM | #1 | |
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hydrogen hybrid conversion?
ok i recently built myself an electrolysis unit that run off the current from an old fog light wire harness, and i was wondering if anyone else has tried this approach?
after i put it in, i had a thought, and it was this: will the sensors in my engine be able to compensate for the added hydrogen and oxygen in the air? it should, shouldn't it? any thoughts or opinions would be greatly appreciated |
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05-11-2006, 08:00 PM | #2 | |
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Re: hydrogen hybrid conversion?
you're not going to get increased gas mileage from electrolising water then burning it, it's actually going to decrease your gas mileage. and i don't think your sensors will notice the hydrogen.
but when you break up the water into hydrogen and oxygen, you lose some energy, then when you burn them you lose some more. if you used a hydrogen fuel cell, you would get 80-90% of the total energy possible out of the hydrogen. when you burn it you get around 30-40% (and that's being generous, in your case it would probably be less) so if you're going for increased gas mileage, this is not going to work.
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05-25-2006, 01:44 PM | #5 | |
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Re: hydrogen hybrid conversion?
ok i know that an engine will run on hydrogen, because the mythbusters prooved that it works on national television. what about using the solution of drano, water and scrap aluminum(cans, foil, etc.) to produce the h2.
what if you sealed the container to contain the pressure build up, and used a valve to aspirate the gas into the engine? i know that the gas reaction will not stop until the aluminum is gone. another idea is using a cable(bicycle brake, parking brake) pull the aluminum out of the solution to stop the reaction when you don't need the gas... ie.: engine off, parking u know... |
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06-11-2006, 11:27 PM | #6 | |
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Re: hydrogen hybrid conversion?
the mythbusters did not prove that a car will run on hydrogen. if you kept watching, they realized that the reason the car still ran was because there was some residual fuel in the system. the next time they tried it, it sorta blew up in their faces.
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06-29-2006, 12:03 PM | #7 | |
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Re: hydrogen hybrid conversion?
The info I had said that it takes about 1.4 W of electricity to electrolyse 1Ws worth of hydrogen. So we need a lot of cheap electricity form somewhere.
But i can see it reducing pollutents. |
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