Do you think this is possible??

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Looks like something a local TV channel producer would gin up for April 1.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch - If I didn't have all my money tied up in the Brooklyn Bridge, I'd put my bux on cold fusion first...

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Originally posted by Dave Bowers:
Do you think this is possible??

When one starts to think that things are impossible then nothing happens. This would be great, imagine trying to enforce a road use tax?

Almost Anything Is Possible Sign me up for cold fusion.

Bill N.Y.

128 oz = 1 gallon.

So, if you pay .99c for a 20 oz. bottle of water your Aquygen™ Gas will cost you $6.33 6/10 per gallon to fuel up.

Gasoline is a little less then half price today @ only $3.12 gallon.

Bill N.Y.

In 1874 Jules Verne wrote:
"The Mysterious Island"

"And what will they burn instead of coal?"
"Water", replied Harding.
"Water!" cried Pencroft, "Water as fuel for steamers and engines! Water to heat water!"
"Yes, but water decomposed into its primitive elements", replied Cyrus Harding, "and decomposed doubtless, by electricity, which will then have become a powerful and manageable force, for all great discoveries, by some inexplicable laws, appear to agree and become complete at the same time. Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable. Some day the coalrooms of steamers and the tenders of locomotives will, instead of coal, be stored with these two condensed gases, which will burn in the furnaces with enormous calorific power. There is, therefore, nothing to fear. As long as the earth is inhabited it will supply the wants of its inhabitants, and there will be no want of either light or heat as long as the productions of the vegetable, mineral or animal kingdoms do not fail us. I believe, then, that when the deposits of coal are exhausted we shall heat and warm ourselves with water. Water will be the coal of the future."

"I should like to see that," observed the sailor.

Bill N.Y.

Hmmmmm. 132 years ago he said that.

When somebody comes up with a way to decompose water, that takes less energy than that produced when hydrogen & oxygen recombine, we will have achieved perpetual motion.

I somehow doubt those guys in the video clip have got there yet.

It's interesting that Verne didn't anticipate our current mejor energy sources - petroleum & natural gas. He did, however, anticipate nuclear power in "20,000 Leagiues Under The Sea." Indeed, our first nuclear sub, the "Nautilus," was named after Verne's fictional submarine.

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Originally posted by olroy:
I somehow doubt those guys in the video clip have got there yet.

This is not a straight water to hydrogen setup - They have electrical current inside of the water arcing it causing the gas bubbles to go to the top of the cylinder and goes into the vacuum line at which point it is combined as a vapor and allows you to get better gas mileage.

It does not run on water. There is a catalist that helps to produce the Aquygen™ Gas and allows you to "help" the gasoline mix.

Prototype System: The HHOS that was demonstrated and tested included the following main components:

Heavy Duty Alternator used as a replacement for the vehicle's factory unit. Size of the heavy-duty alternator is minimally larger than the factory unit.

Electrolyzer utilized to create the Hydrogen/Oxygen mixed gas, measuring 12" high by 8" wide by 24" long and weighing approximately 30-35 lbs when completely filled with water/electrolyte solutio (3 gallons). On the prototype vehicle (1994 Ford Escort Wagon), the Electrolyzer was mounted in the rear compartment.

Two Auxiliary Batteries utilized to store the electrical power created by the Heavy-Duty Alternator and to distribute the electrical power required by the Electrolyzer. These heavy-duty batteries are the size of standard car batteries and were also mounted in the rear of the prototype vehicle.

The HHOS produces Aquygen™ Gas at low pressure (less than 50 PSI) on demand while the vehicle is running, while utilizing the vehicle's 12-volt electrical system to power the Electrolyzer. Aquygen™ Gas is not stored on board the vehicle. It is immediately mixed with the vehicle's traditional fuel supply in the engine's combustion chamber (via the vehicle's existing vacuum system) and consumed during the combustion cycle.

Test one

Test two

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Originally posted by olroy:
It's interesting that Verne didn't anticipate our current mejor energy sources - petroleum & natural gas.

The gasoline automobile wasn't even invented by 1874. They only first made Gasoline in the late 1850's early 1860's. Remember, coal was king back then.

Karl Friedrich Benz 1885/86 GASOLINE / First true automobile. Gasoline automobile powered by an internal combustion engine: three wheeled, Four cycle, engine and chassis form a single unit. It was sort of like a farm tractor - the engine and transmission were the frame

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach 1886 GASOLINE / First four wheeled, four-stroke engine- known as the "Cannstatt-Daimler."A 4x4 rig

George Baldwin Selden 1876-95 GASOLINE / Combined internal combustion engine with a horse drawn carriage: patent no: 549,160 (1895). Never manufactured, Selden collected royalties, how about that, he just thunk it up!

Charles Edgar Duryea and his brother Frank 1893 GASOLINE / First successful gas powered car: 4hp, two-stroke motor. The Duryea brothers set up first American car manufacturing company. A two stroke gasoline and oil mixture

Bill N.Y.