It seems the price of gas just goes up every day now – enough already, I just paid $3.71 a gallon for regular – not premium!  It’s getting very expensive to drive and it is really starting to hit consumers in the pocket book big time.  People are starting to look for alternatives from everything like biodiesel to electric hybrids and even water.  Out of these, if it were to work and be feasible water would have the most potential as it has unlimited supply (3/4 of the earth is covered in water).  Now the question is it doable like hybrids and biodiesel?

Well, the fine men and ladies of Discovery’s show Myth Busters have actually answered this one for us already.  They, for one episode, took numerous gas and fuel economy boosting products like the Tornado, magnetic gas line treatments and even Browns gas (water converted into hydrogen and oxygen gas) and tested them to see if they worked and if they did work if they would be feasible for the consumer.  So what did they find?  Their findings exactly matched those of the FTC and other federal agencies which monitor products like these – none of them worked.

Out of the products, the only one that showed any kind of reaction or anything was the Browns gas reaction containers.  They showed a slight trickle of bubbles, but not anywhere near what would be needed to see any kind of difference in gas mileage and fuel economy.  It could work, however, one would need a much, much larger reaction container and a larger power source to power the reaction.  For those that don’t know, Browns gas is the HHO or hydrogen and oxygen gas that results when water molecules are separated through electrolysis. 

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Another and better idea would be to have small tanks of hydrogen and or oxygen and attach them in a similar way to the car, but keep the tanks in the truck.  This is similar to NOS or nitrous setups that hot rodders and drag racers use.  This would be safer as the explosive gases would not be located in the engine compartment and much larger quantities of these gases could be available (a compressed tank will hold more gas than a thousand of the Browns gas reaction jars or whatever one uses could ever hope to produce).

Now the problem would be the cost and the cost for a nitrous tank setup is $150 to $800 with the average being around $350.  I would assume that a hydrogen or oxygen tank setup would initially cost the same and then there’s the tank fill ups.  Nitrous, upon doing a little research on the web, costs on average $3 to $5 per pound for refilling tanks.  Oxygen and hydrogen have similar refilling costs, but there is one major difference.  NOS systems are only short use – for as long as the timed boost which can be measured in seconds.  The hydrogen or hydrogen and oxygen tank would be applied continuously while the car is running and would need a special stop flow or cut off valve to stop the flow in case the engine stops, an accident happens or a leak forms.

The problem here is that a nitrous tank does not last very long and for nitrogen you would be continuously supplying it while running – therefore a much, much bigger tank would be needed (probably the size of the entire trunk or larger). This would be dangerous in the event of a rear end collision.  Hydrogen gas and oxygen make up Browns gas and they are explosive gases.  You would not want them to leak all over your hot engine compartment while your family is in the car making a run to the grocery store.

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However, there are companies in California and elsewhere right now looking into the long term feasibility of hydrogen powered  cars, hydrogen hybrids and fuel cell vehicles.    So, even though Browns gas and water as a fuel source is not currently very feasible, it will be at some point in the future (maybe in 15 to 25 years).

Companies are already toying with the idea of cars run solely on fuel cells (which is similar to the Browns gas water hybrid idea) except it is still early in the developmental stage and until it becomes mass produced it will be too expensive for most consumers to take advantage of (average of $50,000 to $100,000 or more for the same car to have it converted to hydrogen and fuel cells will be in the same range).  Experts say it should be another 15 years or so before these ideas are made more feasible and brought to the masses.

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