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HHO or Hydrogen and Water as fuel?

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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 10:01 AM
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HHO or Hydrogen and Water as fuel?

Anyone heard of or using this technology??
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 10:14 AM
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There is a outfit called magdrive that is selling hydrogen generators for the diesels uses water and vinegar I wanted to wait until they had all the bugs worked out before I bought one and tried it
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 10:19 AM
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My father-in-law was telling me about this.............there's a web site of water4gas.com, I checked it out, but didn't know if it was for real.
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 02:14 PM
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The last time I read about some who were using hydrogen generators said they were not getting better fuel mileage as claimed and were not very happy. I say save your $$ until they can prove be proven that a hydrogen generator can give anyone better fuel mileage.
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 02:40 PM
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There is a lengthy post on here of like 20-30 pages on the topic. You could do a search if someone doesn't post the link.
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 05:53 PM
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A gentleman I worked with or I should say started at my company, he left to work in Tiawan on an engine that he has patented to run on water. The last guy that did that he in (us) was found dead.
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 06:20 PM
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Bought the MagDrive, Used it 4 months, Many problems and NO increase in MPG. Money in the garbage in my opinion. Now sitting in my shop.
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 06:53 PM
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Why not just run your vehicle on saltwater??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf4gOS8aoFk
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Old Feb 23, 2008 | 08:04 AM
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These systems are using hydrolosis to extract hydrogen from water using electricity. I don't know off hand, but I believe you have to put 2-3x the energy input for the energy you get out of the hydrogen. They are all pretty much scams. The Any efficiency improvement you would see goes to trying to generate the electricity to extract the hydrogen.

The biggest thing people don't understand is that it does take hp to generate electricity with your alternator. Ever hooked up jumper cables to a dead battery and listen to the engine rpm drop.
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Old Feb 23, 2008 | 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Crabjoe
Why not just run your vehicle on saltwater??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf4gOS8aoFk

Yes he gets it to burn, but its the same process. It takes more energy input than what you get out of it. He just stumbled on a different method.
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