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Your Answer to Saving on Fuel Costs - HHO Kit
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Your Answer to Saving on Fuel Costs - HHO Kit
As NPR's Car Talk guys would say, BOUUGUS! In other words, forget it.
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Your Answer to Saving on Fuel Costs - HHO Kit
On Mar 6, 3:43 am, wrote:
> Your Answer to Saving on Fuel Cost The "Run Car on Water" Scam Busted Far too many people are not informed enough to avoid being defrauded and "ripped off" when it comes to devices they believe to be the result of technological advances in science. Technologies advance so fast and some times in such unexpected ways that few non-scientists can know if a device being sold can in fact perform as its sellers claim it does. In the past two years a "water as fuel" scam has been spreading over the internet, and far too few people have the science background to know it is a scam. This is not because they are "stupid," or "idiots:" it is just that ignorance is the default human condition, and one has to seek out and acquire specialized knowledge to know if a deal that sounds too good to be true really is true. The fraudulent devices go by many names, and their sellers and promoters make many claims about the devices. Some call them "HHO cells;" some call them "Brown's gas cells." The phrases and claims vary, but the fraudulent devices being sold are pretty much the same. The devices claim to produce enough hydrogen, using electricity to break the chemical bonds in water, to improve an automobile's miles- per-gallon consumption of fuel. Usually the sellers claim that the electricity used to break the chemical bonds of water, therefore releasing oxygen and hydrogen gasses, is "free" in that the automobile's alternator powers the system. None of these claims are true. In fact, these devices waste gasoline when installed in automobiles, as they increase the time the automobile's alternator must energize its field coil, thus adding additional friction to the engine. The amount of hydrogen produced, when converted into energy via combustion, is always, without exception, less than the amount of energy the gasoline used to provide that additional electrical energy. It always, without exception, requires more energy to break the chemical bonds of water than the gases produce will provide to the automobile's engine. One can calculate how much power, in Watts, an automobile requires to run at a given speed. P = kg * V * DV * / Dt where the weight of the vehicle in kilograms is multiplied by the speed (V) in meters per second (DV) divided by the drag in distance over time (Dt). For one example, to maintain my Toyota pickup at 55 miles per hour, the vehicle must consume 18,146 Watts (24.35 horsepower). Many of the scam devices claim a fuel efficiency (in miles per gallon) increase of around 30%. That means the device must produce enough hydrogen to provide 5,444 additional watts to the engine--- in addition to the gasoline consumed. That means, if the HHO device converted the energy from the alternator into hydrogen at 100% efficiency (which is impossible), and that hydrogen provided 100% energy efficiency to the engine (also an impossibility), the HHO device must consume 394 Amps to provide enough hydrogen and oxygen to produce enough energy to increase MPG by 30%. And yet most of the HHO devices draw at most 9 Amps, and their efficiency at converting that 9 Amps into hydrogen is a small fraction of 100%. Not only does the math prove the devices are worthless, but actual testing prove they are worthless. The United States Environment Protection Agency tested nearly two dozen HHO devices, and every single one tested were shown to be worthless. More to the point, if these devices actually performed as their sellers' claim, every automobile manufacturer would have long ago made them standard equipment: they would already be in our automobiles, and in every new automobile made. The USA government has ordered car manufacturers to build more fuel-efficient automobiles, and if these HHO devices actually worked, that requirement would be easily met with a tiny fraction of the cost auto manufacturers are currently spending working to meet that requirement. The only "evidence" that promoters of the HHO "water car" / "water as fuel" scam can provide is anonymous testimonials which they write to sell the worthless devices. Worse yet, many of these devices are sold in pyramid scams, called "multi-level marketing," or "network marketing," which defrauds not only the victim who buys them, but also the sellers who believe the devices work as claimed. That is, many sellers have been stuck with hundreds of these useless devices, and they cannot find enough suckers to buy them. The bottom line is: 1) these HHO devices cannot convert enough electrical energy into mechanical energy to perform as the sellers claim; 2) all tests of these devices show them to be worthless; 3) the laws of physics mandate a loss of energy, every time, without exception, when HHO devices are used; 4) not all of the sellers and promoters of the scam know it's a scam, until they put one in their own cars and discover it's a scam; 5) if they worked, new cars would already have them installed; 6) and finally, something that is clearly too good to be true almost always is. |
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