Whyle I was searching on my favorite website, http://www.yotatech.com/, which is where I get most of my information about toyota trucks; I came across a very interesting find. There has been a lot of discussion about converting trucks to run not only on air, but also on hydrogen, and increasing your fuel economy by around 40% in doing so. At first I too was throwing the B.S. flag on this, untill I did a little more research. First off this is what I found about a man named Stan Meyer. Stan Meyer is the inventor of hydrogen fuel cells. There are more details on him in the link above but simply put the research was ceased because the government stated that his invention was fraudulant. That was in 1996, throughout the years there has been lots of commotion on this subject. Turns out now that people are doing it themselves like this man.
He has converted two of his vehicles to hybrid vehicles with this fuel cell design, and he makes it seem easy. His jeep wrangler's fuel economy increased by 40%, and that is a huge accomplishment.
Now it defenitely is not easy to do, but the concept really is not that complicated. Very simply put, first you take water (H2O) and run an electrical current through it. This separates the molecules and turnes it into HHO which is a gas. This gas is then injected into the intake where it is mixed with regular oxygen, and burned with the gasoline. HHO alows the oxygen to ignite quicker and easier thus increasing your fuel economy. One thought on why this won't work effectively is the fact that you need excess energyto separate the H2O molecules. I feel that with the alternator turning all the time anyways that you will not be burning off enough energy to negate the energy that you put into your engine.
Currently I am following a forum where someone is attempting this and recording every step of the way. If it is done succesfully, then I will attempt this on my truck, which I am crossing my fingers for.
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Very interesting, and informative post. The structure is sound with good transitions into the body, and closing. What kind of fuel economy can people using hydogen expect? Is it better than gas; how about diesel? Why haven't more companies looked into this exciting technology? There's an abundance of water and engineers; perhaps it is a political issue?
Good data here...but I would suggest burying those URLs right into words so that they they don't throw the content of your text off. I can show you how to do that in class.
Also, how about a non-Wikipedia source for the info on Stay Meyer?
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