Is Run Car on Water A Scam? Must Read This Before Put Water Into Gas Tank

There are many ways to increase gas mileage, buying a hybrid electric car or an electric car like Nissan's LEAF, but purchasing such a car usually costs more and take years to get the money back. The most talked about topic on Internet, and of course, the most controversial gas-saving method is probable "run your car on water".

First, for these readers who believe run car on water is adding water to your gas tank, you need to read this report from the beginning to the end. Adding water to gas tank would cause serious car damages, everyone knows water and gas cannot mix. It would cost you thousands of dollars to repair and void your manufacture warranty. This is one of common misconceptions people have about "run your car on water".

RUN CAR ON WATER is actually NOT adding water to the gas tank as you might have thought. You've to think out of the box and out of the gas tank.

The secret of adding water to car is to use some pre-made "kit" or a self-made "system" to convert water to HHO or Brown's Gas with the help of baking soda, Potassium Hydroxide (KOH), Sodium Hydroxide. The classical way is to use electric source in your car's regular battery to generate the HHO, and the new way to use electric source is from a rechargeable solar battery powered by thin aerodynamic solar panel attached to the car's roof.

The Brown's Gas acts as a stimulus to the gasoline. Brown's Gas and gasoline mix together from two separate paths as you'll see from the diagram below. HHO acts as an oxidant through air inflow to make gasoline burn more efficiently. HHO boosts octane and horse power. HHO is implosive and not explosive.

This process is similar to Hydrogen Fuel Enhancement to ICE , hundreds of Hydrogen Fuel Injection Devices were discussed. It is well-known that adding hydrogen to gas extends the lean limit of combustion and reduce emission - even zero emission vehicle (EZEV) requirements can be reached (source: INIST ). Recent academic research and actual implementations and others have supported the evidence that hydrogen injection to ICE effectively increase auto efficiency and reduce emission; HHO injection to ICE is even more effective than hydrogen injection. The famous Bob Boyce's Electrolyzer reported 40-60% mpg increases.

You may ask, what is HHO? What is Brown's Gas? What are the differences between H2O and HHO?

H2O is the chemical formula for a water molecule, where a single oxygen atom is bonded with two hydrogen atoms. HHO is a popular way of writing OxyHydrogen - a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gases, usually in a 2:1 ratio. Thus, HHO = Hydrogen-Hydrogen-Oxygen. Since the oxygen and hydrogen are in mixed gas mode and not bonded, it is not H2O (water). Bonding hydrogen and oxygen requires an ignition and chemical reaction. When the Oxyhydrogen gas is lighted, oxygen and hydrogen atoms bonds and releases energy, the end result of the chemical reaction is water vapor.

HHO is also called Brown's Gas. It was named after Dr Brown. Dr Brown discovered this HHO process in 1960s, the process was then confirmed by chemists in 1990s. It is believed Brown's Gas will replace petroleum as the fuel of the future (source: Webster Dictionary). Hundreds of energy implementations have already used Brown Gas as a fuel source , HHO/Brown's gas is for real and it's more powerful than hydrogen ( Brownsgas.com for more information).

So how to run a car on water?

Here is the most recent video news on water-powered car, it 's from Reuters (06-13-2008). A Japanese company named Genepax has used the water technology to power a car. The company said it would sell the system for ¥2,000,000 (or about $18,700 -- not including the car).



You really don't need to wait and spend $18,700 on such a system, in fact, this kind of knowledge has been around for a quite while on the Internet. To obtain such information and do-it-yourself costs little or even FREE.

Water conversion knowledge is scattered in online discussion forums, online ebooks, and various websites, it is hard to find what's real and what's scam. The most comprehensive and useful manuals are not free, of course, they offer this or that kind of tricks not readily avaliable on Internet. We'll look at various "systems" or "kits" sold on the Internet. We'll also discuss the pros and cons of water-gas technology in the last part of this report.

So which water-gas "conversion kit" is widely used and most popular? Does the "kit" really work? How many folks have used the "kit"? What's their feedback from the REAL users?

You might have already learnt, there are a number of so-called water-gas "conversion kits" floating around. First, you have to realize, the "kits" or "systems" are mostly online guides and manuals (there are a few local installers do sell self-made kits locally). If you expect to receive a package of "kit" filled with parts with your $50-$100 online order, your expectation is way too high or your understanding is mis-guided. Some guide sounds too good to be true and no public feedback; some manuals are extremely difficult to understand, offer little detailed information. If you have ever decided to buy such a guide/manual, you should choose the right one, otherwise, you might need to buy others when you find the information is inadequate.

Another important factor to consider is cost. Water-gas online guides cost varies from $50 to $400, depends on which one you follow, the necessary materials to build the kit cost varies from $50 to $500 by doing it yourself.

By design, gasoline and diesel are the fuels in modern automobiles. The type of engine run most cars is called internal combustion engine or ICE , contrary to common myths about how much dollars the auto companies spent on auto technology, these companies are not gas-saving conscious, their pursuit is bigger, powerful, and expensive gas hogs, there is little fundamental auto technology progress in the past 10-20 years. The current auto design and engine is not efficient nor perfect at all.

The shocking truth is, these gasoline or diesel-fueled internal combustion engines (ICE), even aided with turbochargers, have a mechanical efficiency of about 20% (source: Wiki ).

In other words, if you spend $50 to fill a gas tank, only $15 of the gas is efficiently used or being productive, $35 of the gasoline in your tank is wasted and becomes major pollutant. That's why a catalyst converter is needed to control emission and deal with the wasted gas.

All internal combustion engines (ICE) depend on a chemical process of combustion: the reaction of FUEL with the oxygen (O) from the AIR, other oxidizers such as nitrous oxide (NO) and hydrogen (H) may be employed to increase efficiency (source: Wiki ). Can you see the room for improvements on ICE? Reducing gasoline waste from 80% to 60% in your car would double your car's mileage.

The naysayers on water-fuel technology or staus quo are mostly from these individuals or "experts" who have never tried or experimented the type of system on their cars or labs. Naysayers are thinking within a box - a closed physical system with no chemical reactions. They have the belief that fuel has been 100% efficiently burned in the engine, there is no room left to increase fuel efficiency; a common argument is "you cannot use the battery to generate more energy than it was charged". In their opinions, there is nothing can be done in the car to increase fuel efficiency under their assumptions.

The naysayers' argument is easy to put to a rest. If they think use the car's alternator to generate 3 AMPs of battery costs too much or violate the law of thermodynamics, the same amount of electricity can be easily produced with an external energy source - for example, with a rechargeable solar charger. These rechargeable solar chargers for cars are not expensive, a 12V 5-30 AMPs solar battery charger costs around $30-$90. The fact is, from the experience of all HHO implementers, the HHO electrolysis uses of battery is negligible for a 3 AMPs cell.

The rest naysayers believed "run car on water" is to mix water and gas together in the gas tank.

Bumblebees cannot fly according to the Laws of Aerodynamics.

Lord William Thomson Kelvin, a brilliant scientist 100 years ago, for whom the Kelvin temperature scale is named, stated in 1895, "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." Of course, regretfully, 100 years later, even a three year old kid laughs at his statement.

None knows what's going to run on cars 100 years from today - it could be hydrogen, or salt water, or even solar energy, it is doubtful gasoline would remain the main fuel of transportation. At a future time.

The ones support Water-Gas system are from some academic research and mostly from thousands of auto practitioners and experiments.

This 2004 academic paper(PDF) titled "Investigation of the Effects of Hydrogen Addition on Performance and Exhaust Emissions of Diesel Engine" was published at the 2004 FISITA World Automotive Congress in Barcelona. According to the paper, experiments were carried out to evaluate the addition of HHO mixture obtained through electrochemically decomposed water to the inlet air of a single cylinder direct injection fuel engine.

Their conclusion is "when a small amount of hydrogen is added to the intake air, the combustion process of the internal combustion engines could be considerably enhanced. It was found out that the addition of hydrogen has a good influence on the combustion."

Hydrogen or HHO injection to ICE is a very effective way to increase fuel efficiency and reduce emission, it has been proved both in scientific research and in practical implementations by thousands auto practitioners.

What about media coverage on this technology? The news media has done several stories on HHO fuel recently. The water fuel technology has been featured on CNN, FOX News, ABC, and NBC. Fox News has a full coverage on Water4gas.

This popular blog detailed how one guy converted his Saturn to run HHO with the help of Water4Gas . The most recent video was posted on the performance of his Saturn. Pay close attention to the comments from others. He appeared on Today's Show lately (07-02-2008).

ABC News released a video interview titled Run Cars on Water (date: 06-05-2008).

This is one of the most recent news - Man Converts Vehicle to Run Partly on Water (06-30-2008).

Another news report - A simple way to save gas: Add water detailed two brothers built water-gas kits and sold them locally, none of their buying customers have complained (07-16-2008).

According to the media reports, the HHO technology is being demonstrated to members of Congress, local government officials, and even NASA. An exhibit demonstrating the technology was displayed at The 2004 Governor's Conference on the Environment in Kentucky. According to the press released by the Governor's Conference on the Environment in Kentucky, Hydrogen Technology Applications Inc. has donated several HHO gas generators to Kentucky universities and technical training centers during its introduction program, this technical is for real.

Denny Klein said "this technology is going to end up being in the mainstream eventually," he further predicted, "and then the critics are going to look absolutely foolish."

Brownsgas someday will replace petroleum fuel as a free clean energy source. A discovery that is considered to be a future replacement for petroleum fuels, that can also be used to weld anything to anything and transmute nuclear waste into becoming non nuclear. -WillPWilson, The Discovery of Atomic Chemistry, 1993 based on finding verified by more the forty University Physics Departments.

The auto companies are far away from producing the kind of cars customers want. It is no surprise when Ford Motor Co. sales tumbled nearly 34 percent in June and GM laid off thousands in July because they are in wrong direction, they're way out of touch from the market - drivers like you and me.

The water-gas hybrid system will be a home-made DYI system built by you or a mechanic but based on the experience of many others. The system uses about 3 AMPs electricity per cell to separate water (H2O) into a mixture of Hydrogen and Oxygen to gas state. A cell is one bottle. Some put 6 cells in their car. When hydrogen is mixed with Oxygen (HHO), it is also known as Brown's Gas as I mentioned above. Brown's Gas is more powerful than Hydrogen alone as the fuel, with 4 ounces of HHO combined with gasoline, it can power the car for about 120 miles.

HHO burns three times more efficient than gasoline. Brown's gas dramatic increase BTUs upon combustion. Because its burn is highly efficient, what would have come out of the tailpipe as an emission ends up getting burned up, therefore, it also gives an equally dramatic decrease in emission pollution.

When Brown's Gas bonds with the gasoline and starts the firing process, that's when you get the chemical reaction, it gives you car with higher gas mileage and cleaner emissions. More explanation of the technology is provided by Denny Klein, president of Hydrogen Technologies Applications and one of the original inventors of the technology, he owns several patents on HHO - "Aqagen".

A successful water-gas conversion system safely converts H2O to HHO at low voltage with 3 AMPs battery consumption. This is where you need a good guide from experienced experts to learn the materials, techniques, and lessons without spending hours to go through trials and errors by yourself.

The good part of this technology is, you don't need to change your engine or on-board computer system (of course, if you could trick it with some devices, you can increase the mileage even more). A quart-size (95O cc) container is placed somewhere under the hood. You fill the bottle with water, adding some baking soda and other electrolyte to atomize water and break to smaller particles more easily.

The problem and technical challenge has always been on how to separate water economically. The traditional methods of separating the bond of the water molecule to HHO have resulted in dismay. Nanoparticle-coated steel electrodes can increase the surface area of conventional electrodes by more than 1,000 times (source: EETimes). GE's new electrolyzer which uses High-tech plastic parts in place of metal parts to lower the cost of producing high performance electrodes (source: Popular Mechanics ).

By design, water4Gas type systems draw about 3 AMPs electricity per cell (bottle), it consumes about the same amount of electricity as a car CD player, that's nothing compare with the headlights which draw 12-25 AMPs.

For many years, Stanley Meyer researched this problem, he found a way around it. Stanley have several patents in this area. Many believed Stanley Myer was poisoned to death by oil companies.

If it's true that car can run on water with special kits and technologies, why the automobile industry have not commercialized it or advocate it?

Others say, if you could improve your gas mileage by 30%+ for less than $200, why wouldn't every car manufacturer in the world use this technology as standard equipment?

What a shame! Why would the car companies want to sell a $100 conversion kit to save 20-50% gas instead of selling a $30,000 - $40,000 hybrid cars? What are the profits they make from $100 device? Can a simple conversion kit pay $300 million salaries for the CEOs, millions of workers and dealers working in the car industry? Would the gasoline companies happy with a simple gas-saving technology? It costs me $60 to fill my gas tank, would the gas companies want me to pay them $100 or $30 to fill the gas tank?

Some may say the gas and auto companies have billions of dollars and thousands of engineers,why they won't sell such a device. You're right, the big auto and oil companies have tons of money to burn, their engineers are smart and sophisticated to make huge cars like Hummer, but their goal is profit-making, not trying to save gas and making cheaper cars, they're heading to the wrong direction.

Automakers and gas companies are not in the best interest of the public to save gas. In fact, why would they want to stop making expensive cars and leave cars with high profit margins on the table. It does make business sense for auto companies and gas companies to advocate EXPENSIVE gas consuming cars, trucks, SUVs, and outrageous high price-tag hybrid cars. The automakers are just too out of touch with the general public needs, expect to see big layoffs and more plants to close soon.

If you've read the documentary 'Who Killed the Electric Car', you might realize that run-water-on-car could be another type of technology the car manufacturers simple don't want you to know or try. Due to the simplicity and economic factor of the technology, the information on is easily accessible by the general public, they cannot block the freedom of Internet information sharing.

If you cannot afford to buy Water4Gas or other commercial-grade manuals, here is a copy of one of the original "run water on car" manuals, it is free to download. The file offers some instructions but no pictures nor detailed materials, nor assembling lessons. If you're an auto mechanic, take a look at this manual first, you will see this technology is there and it is not a scam, "run car on water" is practical and can be done.

Pros and Cons of Water-Gas Hybrid System and "Run a Car on Water":

The benefits of running water car are obvious:

(1) you can save gas immediately. Water4Gas users have reported mileage improvement from 20% to 65% on average after converted their cars run on water.
(2) 100% safe and legal.
(3) Conversions are not void manufactures warrant.
(4) The cost is deductible on IRS, IRS has up to $2000 cash rebate for hybrid vehicle.
(5) Reduce emission and CO2, better environment, save the Earth.

Cons:

(1) Even though all guides mentioned the technology works with 99.9% of the motor vehicles - old or new. Few have tried it on new cars or hybrid electric cars. Many motor hobbyists have converted their diesel trucks and older cars to HHO with great success. If you really want to put a system on a new car, to fully enjoy the benefits of the HHO generator, the fuel to air ratio needs to be optimized. It can be done either through a MAF (or MAP) sensor, a modified O2 sensor, or an Electronic Fuel Injection Enhancer (EFIE).

(2) Have basic mechanic tools and know how car works. In other words, you're a handy man, an auto hobbyist, an auto mechanic, or an auto practitioner, you know what you're doing.

(3) Though many put up the system in a weekend, it take only a couple hours for a mechanic, but for someone knows little about cars, it can take more hours to have the system work perfectly.

(4) Many parts listed in Water4Gas are sold in NAPA Auto Parts or other auto chains, make sure you can get most parts locally.

If you bought Water4Gas guide, you can call or email the company for technical support. Other guides don't offer such supports.

HYDROGEN WILL REPLACE OIL AS THE MAIN ENERGY

Some readers may ask why use HHO or hydrogen? Hydrogen is a clean renewable energy. The Sun is basically a giant ball of hydrogen and helium gases. Hydrogen is most abundant element in the universe, it has the highest energy content per unit weight of any known fuel.
Hydrogen rarely occurs by itself in nature, mostly found combined with other elements such as oxygen (for water) and carbon (for fossil fuels) from which it must be harvested. The good news is that once separated, hydrogen is the ultimate clean and highly compacted energy carrier.

Some foreign automaker is jumping into hydrogen powered cars. BMW Hydrogen 7 is running on Hydrogen only. Honda Technology is in the process of developing this technology into their own cars and expect to see it in the market within four years. Check out this Honda's news (06-17-2008): Revolution hydrogen-fuel cars roll off production line in Japan.

Run car on water could be the future, one day these oil companies will be the history of past, we'll say farewell to gasoline. For these smart motor hobbyists, they can say Hi to Water now!