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Hydrogen Generating Module to Help Your Car?
TomClancy_Jack writes "A Canadian man claims to have invented a hydrogen
electrolysis box that can be fit onto any existing internal combustion
engine. He claims that engines using his "H2N-Gen" box
'produce a more complete burn, greatly increasing efficiency and reducing fuel
consumption by 10 to 40 per cent - and pollutants by up to 100 per cent.'
If this doesn't turn out to be vapor-ware or just a regular scam, it could turn
out to be one of the biggest recent innovations in transportation history.
He claims it will be on the market in 6 - 12 months, so time will
tell."
I wonder if this guy is friends with the guys who did cold fusion?
your 'simple math' is incorrect and relies on false assumptions. Anyways this 'add-on' is supposed to increase efficiency and use less gas, so again your math is flawed since it's based on driving w/o this device implemented.
stfu & gtfo.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
The responses to this article have proven something I've long suspected -- the average Slashdot poster is really, really fucking stupid.
This article screams snake oil and junk science. It's not even funny junk science, it's just sad and depressing. The article describes people who are sinking their life savings into these scams. And a full 3/4 of the posts so far on slashdot are just dipshits with absolutely no understanding of basic high school physics trying to defend the most outrageous claims in the article.
It was one thing when this article hit fark at 3am last night, and the tin-foil hat crowd started on their "acetone" crap. You can forgive the bad science on a website full of drunk people asking "what would happen if I drank poison ivy?" But it's just not excusable here.
Can anyone recommend a decent website for technology news and science reporting?
It's all going to try and assassinate inventors of fuel-efficient vehicles
Those who modded this "funny" need to look at what happens to everyone who tries to get a motionless electric generator to market.
H2/fuel cell engines exist, we dont need more R&D for that. Rather, we must create more Hydrogen refineries, redesign ALL gas stations to handle alternate fuels, develop a distribution system for the generated hydrogen fuel, as well as many other things.
This device, if it is real, is just another device to aid us on the transition between petrolium based fuels to hydrogen based fuels. There MUST be transitional changes between engines since you cannot force people to buy a completely new device.
What the hell was the 2nd to last line you said? You are making english teachers and professors cry over your complete absence of grammar.
But of course I don't think this device exists. The article claims that there are zero emissions, and that all you need is to refill the water. First there HAS to be emissions of some sort, you can't have H2 + O2 + gas = nothing. He also neglected to mention that there is a catalyst that is in the water "other chemicals such as potassium hydroxide" now I am not certain what the chemical properties of this chemical is when it exposed to electrolysis, but I figure there would eventually be some burn off.
We'll have to wait and see, but until then in my books it's just vaporware.
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