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Old 06-04-2008, 11:30 PM
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HHO Gas

Has anyone installed this? It extracts hydrogen from water.

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Old 06-05-2008, 12:20 AM
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I believe there is a somewhat heated discussion about this, in the Diesel discussion.
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Old 06-05-2008, 12:33 AM
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Thumbs down false info out there.

Was going tom do it on my Supra. researched it alot, and found it to be a COMPLETE RIPP OFF.

Will NOT work. Trust me.
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Old 06-05-2008, 12:42 AM
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Was going tom do it on my Supra. researched it alot, and found it to be a COMPLETE RIPP OFF.

Will NOT work. Trust me.
My son is planning to install this on his A/C trucks.Can you share your research.
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Old 06-05-2008, 12:52 AM
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Unhappy Already spent hrs of research

google it like I did. start reading.

P.S. I run a shop, and have been an ASE Master Tech for 25yrs, so......trust me, it won't work.

I have spent a lot of $$$ & time making my Supra (and a whole lot of other cars) go fast. I want the best MPG I can get, as my MB 300CE & Supra only get 20mpg.
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HHO is actually a sydonym Dihydrogen oxide, also known as Dihydrogenmonoxide or DHMO. This is an extremely dangerous substance that kills 100's of thousands each year. Thankfully there is a growing awareness of the dangers of DHMO. Details at http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
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Old 06-05-2008, 05:10 AM
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HHO is actually a sydonym Dihydrogen oxide, also known as Dihydrogenmonoxide or DHMO. This is an extremely dangerous substance that kills 100's of thousands each year. Thankfully there is a growing awareness of the dangers of DHMO. Details at http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
Hmmm. Dihydrogen = "H2" and Monoxide = "O". Let's put those together shall we? "H2O"...

That's WATER, folks!


The site listed above is a hoax, albeit a very good one. They managed to get the city council of a small California town to ban the stuff for a while.


Read this link on wikipedia for the full story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax
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Old 06-05-2008, 07:35 PM
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Reads like another:It works/it does'nt work.
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Old 06-05-2008, 08:26 PM
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So you are talking about a perpetual motion machine, right?

Less energy in than created. How much energy is required to release the bonds between H and O? And then how much do you get from the H?

I've seen the picture of the little flame on top of a test tube. That heat would certainly power the battery to cause the separation, right? NOT!
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You certainly can't run an engine on the HHO that it produces by turning a generator. That would be a perpetual motion machine.

The question is, does introducing a small amount of Brown's gas to the intake stream increase efficiency of the burning gasoline?

This I do not know, but I highly doubt it. To increase the efficiency, you must release less heat. I never see a discussion of heat loss by the purveyors of these devices.
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Old 06-05-2008, 09:08 PM
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It would still be a perpetual motion machine. It takes energy to release the hydrogen. If it can't create enough energy to do so, then that energy must come from somwhere, the engine's fuel. Thus, fuel being wasted on creating a reaction that produces less power than it produces.
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I don't see where they are claiming to make hydrogen gas. They are claiming to make "HHO" gas. That has another name: water vapor. You can certainly put water vapor into an engine. It was used to reduce combustion temperatures a long time ago, back in the days of carburetors, that were so bad almost anything could improve them. However, water vapor doesn't burn.

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