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g1g

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Posted: 04/22/08 12:49am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

I ran water induction for years and gained 2 MPG. The only time I stopped is winter when it froze but come spring, here goes again.

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To reasonably look at the "cost" of this or any other fuel, you have to look at how much energy is expended to make the fuel-- turn the water into H and O2. Ain't no free ride.

While the product of combustion IS water, I suspect that a reasonable amount of fossil fuel was burned to produce the electricity to separate the molecules.

Each time you change forms of energy (fossil fuel to electricity to chemical reaction ((separating water into H and O2)) to burning it in the vehicle engine) there is a loss of efficiency that is converted to heat.

Were the news media interested in FACTS instead of sensationalism, they would look at the whole process and report on the total efficiency. But it would not make such a great story as "car burns water".


I agree completely with the above poster. If my memory serves me correctly, it takes more electrical energy to break the Hydrogen/Oxygen bonds and create hydrogen gas than hydrogen energy produced.


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g1g wrote:

I ran water induction for years and gained 2 MPG. The only time I stopped is winter when it froze but come spring, here goes again.


thanks for the information. I guess, I was hoping for better scout reports from the fuel cells. Oh well. thank you again.

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Posted: 04/23/08 12:18am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

g1g wrote:

I ran water induction for years and gained 2 MPG. The only time I stopped is winter when it froze but come spring, here goes again.


I should add the only reason I stopped is on my new car I don't know what effect it has with the computer, O2 senser and cataltic converters.
I would hate to have to change them because I messed them up.

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