How do - you --turn water into hydrogen?

Answer 1

its been awhile but i have made hydrogen for one of my older cars by taking a 4 in PVC pipe about 1 foot long and glued a cap on one end and a screw cap on the other. i drilled 3 holes into the screw top about 1/4 inch in dia. next i took the tops off a soup can (4 total) and poked about 20 to 30 holes into it with a nail leaving enough room to drill a 1/4 in. hole in each of the soup can tops. After that i found 2 lengths of lead rod and inserted them into to hole i drilled into the soup lids (2 lids per rod) the i inserted the 2 rods into the holes i drilled into the PVC screw cap. fill up th PVC pipe about 3/4 full of water and add a tablespoon of battery acid and screw on the cap with the lead rod and soup can assembly making sure the 4 soup lids are under the water. then i hooked it up to my 12 volt battery in the car the bubbles that form on the soup can lids is hydrogen. the 3rd hole i drilled into the screw cap was where i hooked a rubber hose that lead to my air cleaner which fed directly into the carb. i hear they use this alot in Cuba to improve gas mileage and horsepower. it did improve the mileage in my beater car a little bit, but it is a messy clean up because the byproduct is corrosion search the web by using hydrogen generator for cars and you might find better directions on how to build one. like i said,,, its been awhile

Answer 2

Technically, you can turn water into hydrogen, because water is made of two parts hydrogen PLUS one part water. But to separate these elements, you must use the process of electrolysis. Sorry, but I have no idea how this is done; hope this helped though..

Answer 3

Commercially, hydrogen is made from organic gasoline. The organic gasoline that's in many cases methane is partly burned in a low oxygen environment and steam reformed producing a mix of H2 and CO, then water is further interior the way of steam reacting with the CO to form H2 and CO2. This technique is 80% efficient and since the capability comes from the combustion of the organic gasoline, it leads to a internet capability benefit. despite if, it is effectively a fossil gasoline while made in this manner. yet another interesting factor is that in case you place the H2 and CO with some iron cobalt oxide catalysts below 10 to 60 bars of stress and at 3 hundred Celsius, you would be wanting hydrocarbon chains interior the C5 to C11 variety ie.: gas. At one hundred eighty Celsius, you would be wanting longer carbon chains ie.: diesel gasoline and waxes which would be hydro cracked into diesel.

Answer 4

With electricity. Send a current through salted water, and hydrogen bubbles form at one electrode, oxygen at the other. It's called electrolysis. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis

I believe there are other ways using catalysts.

Answer 5

through electrolysis. the simplest way is to put a battery's terminals into water. If you add salt to the water, the effect is amplified. You'll get hydrogen, but chlorine and bleach water also....

Answer 6

a process called electrolysis separates it into 1 part hydrogen and 2 parts oxygen.

Answer 7

The easiest way is to run electricity through it but that may not be efficient enough for hydrogen cars.

Answer 8

with an electric current

Answer 9

A fire will do it.
Generally fuel + h2o --> h2 and co2