Problems with Water4Gas
July 3rd, 2008 Josh
1. Why haven’t investors worked to mass produce this if it’s so promising?
2. Why haven’t mechanical shops promoted this if it works so well (ok, fair enough, there are tons of new things mechanical shops haven’t shown us)
3. Ok, like Water4Gas points out, why compress hydrogen in dangerous high pressure tanks when hydrogen is already “compressed” into water? Well, if that’s trying to say what I think it’s saying, this logic says you’re wasting gas period. Because this is basically claiming you car can run 100% on electrolytically separated water if in fact hydrogen fuel cells are a waste of time to figure out. Better yet, seriously, why burn a drop of gasoline when we already know burning hydrogen is so much cleaner? HELLO? Why do people waste time arguing over octane ratings in gasoline if we can simply burn hydrogen? It’s NO SECRET hydrogen and oxygen make water, to say using a battery to separate it and burn it again for car to run significantly is an insult to over a century of automobile development.
Water4gas asks the question why people bother making Hydrogen fuel cells when we can simultaneously separate water and burn it back. This means fuel cell scientists are either outright stupid or conspiring to lie to us. Far from it! In fact, this question can be solved just by understanding the conservation of energy. If you can use a battery to separate water, and burn water to run an engine, aren’t you losing energy in the transactions? Why not just use the battery to run your engine? The idea here is that we burn fuel not for the heat, but for the expansion of gas! There are SO MANY fuels you can separate out from crude oil, gasoline is just one of them, certainly not the best, but the point is, why not alcohol? The reasons are obvious! For the same volume of fuel burned, not all can deliver the same expansion!
4. Even sites like HowStuffWorks.com states, that your gasoline is ALREADY not burning at its most efficient. That means, it’s not that you’re burning gasoline too quickly, it’s that there’s some unburned, and wasted. So, wouldn’t we get more horsepower and cleaner combustion if we supplied more oxygen? The answer is YES. BUT, your engine is designed only to handle a certain about of compression. If you supply more oxygen than the 21% standard air, you may hurt your engine due to pressure.
With this said, just supplying your engine with more oxygen, if it makes a difference, could cause harm to your engine.
5. Minor points :
Luckily, water4gas doesn’t ask you to put hydrogen directly into your engine
Luckily, burning gasoline already produces water, so burning hydrogen wouldn’t be that big of a problem.
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