Running Your Car on Water: Fact or Fiction? Part 1

How far do you drive every day? If you're like I, 50 miles a day or more is a normal thing, and with gas prices soaring to record highs, seemingly without end, driving is becoming very costly. Like many other people, I, too, have tried to find ways to cut my use of gas. I have scoured the internet looking for any means of improving the gas mileage of my 1997 Ford Explorer, and have found many devices that claim to improve fuel mileage anywhere from 10-300%. After wading through the mountain of false promises and outright scams, I have found one approach that seems to show true promise, HHO or "Browns Gas" might have the true potential to improve fuel economy effectively.

If you search for "run your car on water" you will find hundreds of entries from people claiming that this technology works and is the wave of the future. You will also find just as many entries calling it a scam, saying that it does not work based on the scientific law of thermodynamics. There are also websites selling the information and plans on how to do this for around $100 US. What you get for your $100 is the plans to build an HHO generator or Hydrogen Booster, which is the device that separates water, leaving 2 Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atom for each molecule of water, by the use of electricity, which is then fed into the engine. At this point, the Hydrogen and Oxygen run through the combustion process (which I will go into more detail later in this series) and reform back into water, thus providing the energy to run your vehicle.

Now it has been proven that you can run your vehicle off of straight Hydrogen, but that requires a lot of hydrogen. These generators don't produce the amount of Hydrogen needed to run a vehicle completely by themselves, nor do they claim to. They are designed as an addition to the current fuel system already in place on the vehicle, thus requiring less gasoline for the same amount of chemical energy.