Fri 2 Jun 2006
This blog is dedicated to the creation of a hydrogen generator. I have read many posts on the internet about people claiming to be driving their cars with 100% hydrogen and are creating the gas as they drive down the road. After a tremendous amount of work and study, I have concluded that the majority of these claims are completely false. I am still studying the creation of hydrogen gas however with the hopes that I can create a device that works.
I have 20 or so different blue prints for devices that make the claim but none supply enough information to actually complete the project. Most of the people that supposedly wrote the papers are either dead or MIA which leads to the further opinion of BS. A few people that I’ve spoken to about projects they have that supposedly work are not forthcoming with information and make claims that they can’t do ALL the work for everyone. This also leads to a major question mark over their claims.
One of the leading comments that I’ve read and been told that I’ve found to be in complete error, are those stating that they have devices that break apart hydrogen from pure tap water. I’ve done experiments trying to do this and 100% of my tests have been very little hydrogen and major corrosion around the electrical components. The fact is that water by itself doesn’t have a lot of resistance and as such, the electricity jumps directly from one post to the other without effecting much of the surrounding water. As such the production of hydrogen is limited to the initial points of contact and nothing more.
Adding something like Potassium Hydroxide to the water raises the resistance and seems to allow the electricity to flow throughout the water, causing the production of a lot more hydrogen. The chemical added also seems to almost totally eliminate the corrosion I see with plain tap water. However, this has its own draw backs because the amperage that you begin to pull increases with temperature and this process can get extremely hot. I’ve had a small cap of water pulling as much as 15A after 30 minutes of running and at that rate my 14 guage wire is getting rather warm. It also begins to melt the contacts into the PVC and I eventually loose the flow of electricity.
Since, I have created a larger device with larger contacts and heat sinks to help obsorb some of the heat. I’ve also inserted dividers between my posts which cuts down on the required amperage.
Since I’m just starting this site and I’ve been doing experiments for some time it will take me a little while to upload my videos and other data that I’ve collected but I will try to get it up here as quickly as possible. Having it online will also help me get opinions from others that are interested in what I’m doing so together we might come up with a solution.
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