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Run your car on WATER!!
Disco Matt:
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--- Quote from: Disco Matt on March 25, 2008, 11:47:15 ---Tread carefully, as I see the phrase "Browns Gas"
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And why not? he produces enough of the stuff :D
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Yes, if we ever manage to harness this energy source then we'll never need to worry about supplies! :lol:
Range Rover Blues:
I was reading somewhere recently (on one of the forums) a popst from a bloke that used to race bikes, and they added water and ethanol or somesuch for a noticeable power boost. The basic chemical equation stacks up, water is H2O, so it has more oxegen than air, just like giggle gas.
Also if you hydrolise water to get hydrogen, you can add it to deisel as a catalyst the same as you do with LPG. There are companies around who have pattented the technology and are developing it, one of them uses a 300TDi for testing I'm told :D
Lyndsey731:
--- Quote ---The basic chemical equation stacks up, water is H2O, so it has more oxegen than air
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Disco Matt:
The problem is that splitting water to release the hydrogen requires (at present) more energy than you get from burning the hydrogen. A car battery could probably produce some hydrogen but there's no way it could keep up with the demands of an engine.
V8MoneyPit:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on March 25, 2008, 13:42:47 ---I was reading somewhere recently (on one of the forums) a popst from a bloke that used to race bikes, and they added water and ethanol or somesuch for a noticeable power boost.
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Water injection has been used for years in some circles. There was a race bike company down the road from us who experimented with it and found small power gains, but I don't thin k it proved commercially viable.
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