So, today I didn't have anything to do but I was curious about the "water car" after watching an episode of That 70s Show, and I decided to do some research.
As it happens, there is lot of hullaballoo and heartache spent over the adverse costs and effects of the energy we use and the unrenewable fuels we are consuming. But as I see it, we have it well within our capacity to produce enough low-cost energy (and I don't just mean solar energy, wind energy, and other impractical and inefficient alternative resources) and to power it in such a way as to supply the world with nearly free/free energy with relatively few adverse environmental effects.
Part of why I am optimistic has a lot to do with using water as a fuel source...
Well, let me clarify, the water itself is not used as a fuel source, but when submitted to electrolysis under certian conditions, water can be made into oxyhydrogen gas, or HHO, also called "Brown's Gas" after Yull Brown, the inventor of a water-elecrolysis cell from the late 70s.
What the electrolysis process does to H
20 is it separates it through the electric energy into its basic atomic compounds, hydrogen and oxygen. These gasses will pair off into their diatomic molecules (H
2 and O
2) then burn.
Brown's Gas is apparently amazing. HHO is 300% more potent than gasoline, entirely clean to burn (no CO or CO
2 as waste, there is no carbon involved in the combustion process), and cheaply available. An electrolysis unit to create HHO can be developed for relatively cheap.
In here is some more info on the electrolizer that produces HHO (Click to reveal)
The elecrolyzer is composed of a bath and bubbler. The bath contains steel plates that are charged in opposition to each other so that a catalyst in the water (KOH, or Caustic Potash seems to be cleanest and most effective) will help the electrical current force the water molecules into separating. To prevent the gas bubbles from sticking to the plates, they are textured and/or the bath is resonated. To create the most efficient systems, resonation and proper magnetic techniques have been found to yield amazing outputs, creating enough HHO to run an internal combusion engine entirely without catalyst. The HHO then rises and goes through a bubbler which is a water tank that is used to prevent combustive backfire and explode the bathtank. Then the HHO is burned and the good Lord smiles upon us for being so very clever.
HHO has some pretty amazing and baffling properties. It ignites at around 250 some degrees Celcius, but it can sublimate Tungsten, which requires temperatures of over 10,000 degrees. How does it do this? Well, apparently, the materials it comes in contact with determines the nature of the reaction. In some cases, this violates a lot of what people had traditionally assumed about chemistry.
In my understanding, patents similar to this kind of technology date back to at least 1918, and experiments in elecrolyzed energy sources date back to the beginning of the Scientific Enlightenment (and maybe to ancient Babylon (but they would'nt have really known what they were doing (or did they...?))).
If you combine these theories of producing HHO in electrolysis with some of Tesla's now legitimated theories of ambient electricity and magnetism or theories of radioelectrics, it is clear that current applied engergy procurement methods of hydrocarbon combustion have been made direly obsolete.
For information on just one of the many practical applications of Brown's Gas (HHO, or oxyhydrogen gas) watch this neat little video on HHO in commercial/industrial/educational welding.
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If you're interested in learning more on free energy techniques, I reccommend this web site,
http://www.free-energy-info.co.uk/So its clear that clean and cheap energy is right at our fingertips but for some reason I don't see it anywhere except on the internet. What do you guys think of this technology, where do you see it going in the future, and what do you think of the idea of free/nearly free energy for everyone?
Also I heard something about a honda car that ran on the same technology or something similar, (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PzAm1WKuOU ) but it was pretty vague, but idk lol discuss.