A friend and I have been looking into building a hydrogen kit for our cars, it seems pretty simple using using filtered water and baking soda, I was hoping there are people out there that has tried this and what they thought. Thanks Lee
No, those kits are useless scams. It takes more energy to extract hydrogen than you get from it by using it as fuel.
I agree with the previous poster and he or she is correct about the energy imbalance. basically it costs more energy to make the H2 that way than you can get from it it. Hydrogen and Oxygen is an explosive combination too. There is another way of getting H2, CO and CH4 in volume the knowledge is out there you just have to find it. And it does not involve a gasifier.
of course. the car no longer would depend solely on gas as its power supply. you say you are creating the hydrogen yourself however? if you are doing this for the cost benefits you might want to see how much you could produce for the cost before you go switching. hydrogen is not really cheap either, though it can be collected (or the collection powered by) renewable sources. last i heard the hydrogen collected this way was about the same cost as gasoline but much cleaner burning.
I have tried it but I not finished! I built a good kit on my own but it was a long process because to built a good one, you probably need to go to a machine shop depending on your model and you have to order parts from many different places. You can save yourself a lot of time if you just purchase a dry cell, those designs are very efficient. Mine can create around 900 ml of hho from 10 amps. That's about as much as headlights use. So it is not a big drain on the alternator. You probably don't even need that much if you have a small engine. I did a few test runs without doing any modifications to the timing or air fuel ratio and I got no results. Because the gas will burn faster it is better if you can set it at TDC. And if the gas will burn more completely it needs more air, therefore a leaner mixture. I am convinced that this works, I just have to keep working at it, hopefully in a month I will be ready to properly test it. There are a lot of scams out there but this tech is not one of them. The baking soda models are extremely inefficient and I doubt that they can do any good. They give this whole thing a bad rep. Just do a bit of research and you will start to see what sources are honest and where you would want to purchase a kit.
