<quote name="Michael Torrie" date="Wed, 11 Jun 2008 at 15:35 -0600"> > William Attwood wrote: > > Doing a hydrogen system, so long as you harness power from an outside or > > wasted source (solar panels, friction of the brakes to generate electricity, > > head off of the engine block) you can of course get gains in mileage when > > used together with gasoline/diesel. If you rely on your own vehicles power > > output or try to do an HHO only vehicle, you will not get the gains as it's > > counter-productive. > > Not true at all. Just like a turbo charger takes power from the engine > to boost the overall efficiency and power, so hydrogen injection does > also. It's not like you are getting energy from nothing; you're instead > just improving the efficiency from 18% to 19%. All your energy is > conserved and accounted for. Just that hydrogen injection is able to > improve the efficiency of the engine more than the amount of energy > needed to produce the hydrogen.
Just a note, turbo chargers and superchargers do NOT increase efficiency, only power. *charged vehicles generally get lower mpg. Von Fugal
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