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Has anyone installed-Hydro fuel cell (PICC) on your vehicle, to increase your gas mileage. Dose it work?

If so what is the (MPG) Thank You

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waste of your money
A station down the road from has been working on a prototype. they have gotten to 30% more mileage , but it suppose to do much better. haven't found anyone personally overjoyed about the process.
Well, I do know that other hydro fuel cell cars seem like a great idea. You get more milage and less pollution. I also know that the fuel cell has to be replaced every few years, which is anywhere from $3-6000. And the batteries used, take more energy to produce and destroy,,,, and cause more pollution during procuction and destruction. I do not know if the ones you install have the same technology as say the Prius, but it just seems like it all evens out in the end. Yes you save gas money, but then spend the amount you just saved on a new fuel cell. Yes you are lowering the pollution level, but then when it's time to destroy the old one and create a new one, more energy used and pollution created. This is just something I heard from my bosswho is pretty much the smartest man alive.
SCAM Save your money As the saying goes - If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Every time the price of gas spikes, you see more and more of these devices advertised. There were lots of them in the middle 70s during the oil embargo and gas prices spiked. They didn't work then, they don't work now. The current batch of devices claim to work by using electrolysis to separate hydrogen gas from water then feed it into your intake manifold. The rip-off is that an automotive electrical system does not produce enough electricity for the system to manufacture enough hydrogen to make any difference. An automotive electrical system would need to produce about 500 amps of electricity to make enough hydrogen to make any significant gains. How does that 30 amp wire going to the little box carry 500 amps of power? Where does the required 500 amps of electricity come from? How does your 100 amp alternator supply 500 amps of power to the device and still have enough power to run the electrical system in your car? Stop and think about it. If there were a device that really worked, the automobile manufacturers would be all over it. If General Motors, for example, could put a device in their vehicles that would give them a fuel efficiency advantage over their competition, they would buy up the patents and have them in every vehicle they make. They would not be sold on some obscure website by some person selling them out of their garage. The article on the link below has the best source of information on why this can not work.

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