by thudpucker on Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:30 pm
After doing a lot of reading, I've come to the conclusion that any form of Electrolysis to produce Hydrogen is going to use more energy than the Hydrogen it produces can provide when ran through an Internal combustion engine.
I'm not saying it's not worth the effort. Just think if every Auto in America got 10% better milage and a lot cleaner exhaust, we'd all be happy.
Snake oil salesmen make the price too high for that.
Even if every Riding mower and Garden tractor were equipped, we'd be making headway.
My idea was to make a HHO fed boat engine. The lake being a handy source of fuel.
However, to feed HHO into an engine, that was started on Gasoline, requires an adjustable Jet on the Gasoline source.
As the engine heats up, lean the Gasoline till the engine is running on HHO generated by the DC Generator run by the 5 hp B&S engine.
I'm told, the engine will slowly die off as the effort to run the Generator requiers more HHO, and the Generator is slowly failing to produce enough DC to make the Electrolysis produce HHO.
So it MIGHT work if the Gasoline Jetting was sorta Automatic based on RPM or EGT.
If the engine began to fail the Gasoline would return to help out. Soon the process is working again, the Gasoline supply is depleted. Sounds good eh?
I'm just not smart enough to make a thing like that. But I wish the guy who'd like to try it, lived near me.
Dick