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Can a vehicle run off hydrogen from extracting it from a water fuel cell on board the vehicle?

I know an old man that moved where i live and says he helped a guy a couple years ago with a cell that had problems bc it was draining the battery and in a two year time they figured out how to make it work and now gets over 100 miles per gallon of water, its hard to believe yes but he says he can help us and get it going, hes smart and knows his **** but all over the net they say its not possible bc of physics and i think with the electronics we have today its possible.

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THis man claims to have created a perpetual motion machine. Because of the losses from electrical line resistance, leaking hydrogen, engine friction, alternator friction, etc. you can't get as much energy out as you put in even if all you do is use the energy from the engine to make more hydrogen from the water. So where is the energy going to come from to move the car? What about all the heat losses from the radiator? The man is crazy.
You will have better results extracting energy from the tooth fairy. Separating the hydrogen from the oxygen in water requires more energy than you will get out of burning the hydrogen. The results he claims to have achieved violate the principles of the conservation of energy.
What this fellow is proposing is a violation of the first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics. I can't prove that you cannot violate the laws of thermodynamics, but I would like to point out that nobody has ever done so, not even modern power plants. So, in short, no, he cannot do what he says he can do.
Yes and no. Gasoline is a form of liquid hydrogen, so a car can and does run on hydrogen. Hydrogen can be extracted from water, and that hydrogen can run a car engine. This type of hydrogen is called hho. Using hho can be very dangerous, so you better do your safety homework if you plan to use it.! Learn how to make a blow back arrester and how to avoid explosions, leaks. The no part is due to the lack of science that supports hho fuel. The lack of science could be due to the fact that the petroleum industry funds most of the science departments in universities and colleges. They can block research on the alternative fuel source. It could also be due to people not understanding that the was the technology, and having a closed mind to learning about it. I ran a go-cart on hho back in the 1970's. Also the hho technology is from the World War II era, so it is not new technology. But it is an underdeveloped technology. I have a list of links you should watch.

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