Hydrogen fuel cell car! HAHA!

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  1. Ryland

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    I never expected to make believers out of anybody. Check out youtube there are tons of videos on this very setup. I guess iif Alpha wants to claim I am the only person out here drinking the koolaide then that is up to him.
     
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  3. Ryland

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    Yes sir I am fully aware of the implications I am tampering with. Hydrogen is after all highly explosive and we have yet to have a real way of storing it efficiently. However, I am only adding hydrogen to the oxygen entering the combustion chamber. Simple phsyics say the reaction created cannot hurt but only improve. I will not claim to have 90 percent fuel efficiency increases like some people on the net but I will tell you I have seen 20 mpg added on good days.
     
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    The picture I took of the inside of the vehicle is the switch I can use to turn the system on and off. That is an amp meter on the system mounted next to the switch.
     
  5. ghut300zx

    ghut300zx Skunk Shrimp

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    you can buy LPG at any gas station and hundred of thousands of industrial equipment vehicles run on it on a daily basis....
     
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    yes you posted on my thread! sadly closed, mostly my fault sorry guys
     
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    ghut300zx Skunk Shrimp

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    how much psi does that put out?
     
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    True but again hydrogen is something we can create on our own.
     
  10. ghut300zx

    ghut300zx Skunk Shrimp

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    what is this thread about anyways? lol alternative energy or efficiency?
     
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    It's not a matter of availability. It's a matter of creation. We can run electricity through water and get hydrogen, in a fairly simple process. There is no simple process by which we can turn energy of any sort into LPG, and any attempts to do so need a convoluted set of circumstances to work at all, which creates massive efficiency issues.
     
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    No doubt- on a cool day I am sure. However- you have no increase in power, actually a reduction- but with a given amount of drivability- if it goes great right?

    This really isn't the goal, the goal is pure Hydrogen, your using a fuel source as a "b" catalyst, which really is not the real deal. I understand what your trying to do, and I applaud the effort- it's more then I have done in retro spect. But have you considered direct injection? Obviously you will need more pressure, and a heat source, but, and it's a big but, can you do such safely? See this is the problem- safety- can you imagine an accident on the freeway with hydrogen as the mixture?