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Hydrogen Injection = Increased MPG?

Q. Many of us were hoping you might comment on the growing movement of converting on-board water to hydrogen and injecting it into conventional fuel engines for increased mileage and additional positive results... such as found at water4gas.com.

Thanks,
David

A. Well David, to be honest I'm skeptical of any product that says it will boost MPG by 10%, 20%, 30% and especially 50%.

However it's difficult to call this a scam since it does give you exactly what it promises, two e-books for the $97.00 cost. It is up to the purchaser to build these devices and use them at their own risk.

I did catch one thing, hydrogen gas is not more potent than gasoline. Hydrogen, like ethanol, is an alternative fuel, not a better fuel. Gasoline is, and always will be, the only ideal fuel for the internal combustion engine.

I may be wrong, but I find it hard to believe you can get one quart of water to supply enough hydrogen to "last for MONTHS". All things being perfect and with two atoms of hydrogen to one atom of oxygen, three pounds of water would give you two pounds of hydrogen and one pound of oxygen. This is not exact since oxygen is slightly heavier than hydrogen but it's close enough.

So how much is a pound of hydrogen? Well, one square inch of air 62 miles high, as defined by The Kármán Line, weighs 14.7 pounds. And, again all things being perfect, the hydrogen would weigh two thirds of that.

So, one gallon of water equals 8.33 pounds, again all things being perfect, that would give you 5.5 pounds of hydrogen. A 300 cubic inch engine uses 300 cubic inches of air every two revolutions of the crankshaft. At this rate this engine would consume the hydrogen content of a gallon of water, at a 2:1 fuel mixture, in about 220 revolutions of the crankshaft. Or at a 750 rpm idle, in 3.4 seconds.

Now I'm no mathematician but I'm pretty sure my figures are pretty accurate. Even if I'm off by a factor of 1000, that would mean the engine would consume all the hydrogen in a gallon of water in about 56 minutes.

Now I would be happy to put the devices in these e-books to the test to see if they do, in fact, work. And if they send me copies of the books I would gladly do that. But I would have to see it to believe it.

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