Jan
11
bkhberger asked:
I have heard about an easy system that you can use to convert any car into a gas/water hybrid. They say that 4 ounces of water every 100 miles will make your car twice as fuel efficient. They say that most people have not heard of it because the oil companies have been trying to silence this technology for as long as 50 years. Here is a website that has some of the guides on how to convert your car to run partially on water: http://www.squidoo.com/water-car-conversion-kits-fuel
I have heard about an easy system that you can use to convert any car into a gas/water hybrid. They say that 4 ounces of water every 100 miles will make your car twice as fuel efficient. They say that most people have not heard of it because the oil companies have been trying to silence this technology for as long as 50 years. Here is a website that has some of the guides on how to convert your car to run partially on water: http://www.squidoo.com/water-car-conversion-kits-fuel
Here are my questions:
1. Has anyone tried this and does it work? Or is it a scam?
2. How hard is it to convert your car?
3. Will it make your car more or less noisy? More or less powerfull?
4. Are there any ill effects on your engine (such as overheating or faster wear)?
Please cite your sources. I do not want this to be a pollitical debate. I am looking for facts on this process only, not opinions on the conspiracies of the oil companies, liberals making stuff up, or corrupt politicians.
JASPER
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KENDRICK
We just purchased a manual to do this. We haven’t installed the generator yet, but we are hoping it works. The company was BBB certified, and offer a 6 month money-back guarantee. It has been tested on thousands of cars. Also, it is completely removable so it will not void any warranties. As for how it runs, we will see.
RICHIE
Quit trying to get something for nothing.. If it were true it would be perpetually motion and if U understand Physics that is impossible……..
WILFREDO
Electrolysis is expensive in terms of energy. More expensive than buying the same energy from your local gas station.
Electrolysis which results in the creation of hydrogen gas is dangerous. H2 is dangerous. If your electrolyte is table salt, it can be even more dangerous, because Chlorine gas is ridiculously dangerous.
Another problem is that gasoline engines are pretty inefficient, about 20%. This means that unlike an electric car, which will more or less use the energy you put into it, resulting in massive savings, the 50-70% efficient electrolytic process combined with a 20% efficient internal combusion engine(More wikipedia) will result in a total process which, instead of being the 80-90% efficiency of an electric vehicle with a charging system, is instead 10-15% efficient.
The Honda Insight uses 0.52 kW·h/mi(see the wikipedia article on electric cars for the justification there). We’ll assume we want to travel on the highway (because it’s a pretty energy intensive state), and work from there. It can get 496 miles on a tank, the tank is 10.6 gallons. So, to fill the tank, we’ll need to produce the energy to travel 496 miles, or 258kW.
If we’re talking 80% electric cars, that’s probably ok. 322.5kW including inefficiency, which works out to about 20 bucks.
Now, let’s talk about a 10-15% efficient electrolysis process. There we’re talking 1,720kW. If your energy cost is 6 cents per kilowatt-hour, it will cost you about 110 dollars to fill up your Honda Insight.
There IS a water injection process which is different. It works like an intercooler in a turbocooled motor, just cooling the air/fuel mix before detonation so you can run with higher boost pressure, and therefore higher efficiencies. Apparently it’s used with high performance race cars.
MARVIN
I’ve been researching this topic as well. (who wouldn’t with $4 per gallon gas?)
I haven’t converted my vehicle yet, but I have read the instructions on how to convert a car to run on water.
I found a helpful site that compares some of these conversion kits.
hope it helps
WILBURN
I found a website at that gives four different reviews on this water fuel conversion kit. They even have a video that shows you how to do this step by step. I did not buy my kit yet because I am doing my own research to see if it is feasible or not. The video at is very impressive and with these high gas prices, I am tempted to try almost anything right now.
In my research, I found something about hypermiling. Someone says it is like drafting and possible dangerous, but there are some things that I like about it when it comes to saving gas; one of which is driving slower and not accelerating as much. The hypermiling website blog was at. I hope that helps.