Do the hydrogen fuel systems actually work on gas cars or is this another scam? They claim 20-25% savings!?

Question

They are all over the net with claims of adding HP and fuel savings to our gas driven cars.

Answer 1

It is also kown as "Brown's Gas" and yes it is a scam. Works just as well as the magic pills they sell.

Wanna save gas? I'll tell you a simple way to save that 20%.

KEEP YOUR TIRES PROPERLY INFLATED AND YOUR CAR TUNED UP, AND NO JACK RABBIT STARTS OR AGGRESSIVE DRIVING!!!

Ta-da, 20% savings, maybe higher.

Answer 2

You will have to specify which hydrogen fuel system you are talking about.

If you are talking about adding hydrogen gas to the air intake of an engine to improve the efficiency, no the concept isn't a scam. However, many of the products claiming to perform this service are. The only professional hydrogen injection systems cost in the thousands and only promise 10% fuel savings. Although particularly inefficient engines will sometimes see vastly better improvements. Only trucking companies buy them as only they have any real benefit from the costs. The technology is improving, and I understand some car companies have expressed a little interest in the technology. For now, if you aren't driving thousands of miles a week, then it probably isn't worth the price.

If you are talking about the use water as a fuel source for the engine, that is a scam. There are a lot of those.

Answer 3

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Do the hydrogen fuel systems actually work on gas cars or is this another scam? They claim 20-25% savings!?
They are all over the net with claims of adding HP and fuel savings to our gas driven cars.

Answer 4

There's a couple possiblilities here. You can burn the hydrogen, but as there isn't any carbon, or oxygen, for that matter in it, it does not produce CO2. Or, you can produce electrochemical energy by reactions with oxygen. The byproduct of that, is water. It is phenomenally expensive to produce either type at this point, and distribution is not possible with our current infrastruction. I think you won't see hydrogen vehicles on a large scale basis. Bio-diesel and ethanol are stored and pumped in pretty much the same way as regular gasoline and diesel fuel, so you'll see a very expensive trend in this direction for a while, before it becomes obvious that it isn't viable with the production methods currently in use. I saw an article recently about electric cars and distribution of changeable batteries and high speed chargers at gas stations. No special storage, transport, or infrastructure changes required for that. It could end up being the way of the future, with oil prices the way they are, especially if nuclear takes off, which it may have to, given the current consumption environment. Eventually, it will come down to nuclear power, or drilling our own oil. Whichever the environmentalists hate the least. Solar and wind are fine small scale, but they can't keep up with demand unless there's some major breakthroughs. But I digress. Using hydrogen fuel does not produce CO2. Producing hydrogen fuel does, at this point, but it may be to a smaller extent than burning petrol in the cars. Mind you, there's no proven reason to believe that CO2 has any harmful effect on the environment. But since you asked about it, I figured I'd answer. I'm all for nuclear, myself. Freedom through fission! Anyway, good luck with your hydrogen interest.

Answer 5

Flaming scam. They're trying to leech off all the buzz about hydrogen as a replacement fuel for gasoline.

Most of these scams rely on making you believe that there's some sort of government/oil industry conspiracy to suppress some amazing new technology to improve fuel economy. I'm sorry... there's not.

The government has been squeezing the auto industry hard for the last 30 years to improve fuel economy. So the auto industry has done everything they can to increase engine efficiency. They've hit a wall. There's nothing more to gain.

If you want to gain 20-25%, just learn to drive for fuel economy. And/or, sell your guzzler and get an efficient car. They've made several over the last 20 years... Civic CRX HF, Geo Metro, Ford Aspire, Prius, Insight, Ford Escape hybrid... or any diesel car.

Really, in this day and age, just get guzzlers out of your life unless they're diesel, then you can run biodiesel/SVO/WVO, which does work.

Answer 6

The ones I've seen sure look like scams to me. They use electricity generated by the cars alternator to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Put that back into the engine. The trouble is the energy taken to split the water is about 2-5 times (depending on efficiency of the apparatus) of what goes back to the engine in the form of burnable hydrogen.

However, I do wonder since the air oxyfuel mix has a higher O2 content these systems may act like a nitrous boost. Something to ponder......at this point it's better to convert to an alternate fuel, hydrogen but natural gas is a step in the right direction. Save up your money and learn how to convert an engine to hydrogen and learn how to make your own hydrogen.

Answer 7

If you really want to get better fuel mileage:
Change your oil at the recommended interval
Keep you tires properly inflated
Change you Air Filter at least every 6,000 miles

Now for even better savings you can upgrade your ignition, plugs and wires, and then change out your air filter to a K&N filter. Another thing you can use is the "Tornado". I use one on both of my cars. I have a Lincoln Continental Executive Series and a Ford Taurus GL. The Lincoln has a 3.8 litre engine and would get 22-25 mpg and now gets 29-32 mpg. My Ford has a 3.0 and would get 25-29 mpg and gets 30-35 mpg. This includes city driving and highway driving.

Answer 8

The only legitimate supplier that I know of converts existing gasoline engines to run on hydrogen.

One of the partners is a former professor of mechanical engineering from the University of California who worked on the problem of converting a gasoline engine to run relibly on hydrogen.

The name of his company is The Hydrogen Car Company. It is located at 5700 wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.

Answer 9

Stay away from the brown gas as that is hydrogen and oxygen mix together and will explode.
Hydrogen and air is not good as u will still produce NO2 and the fire may be hot enough to melt the top of your pistons. Hydrogen is very hot.

Answer 10

Not worth the time . Did you ever notice how you get better gas mileage on a rainy day works about the same principle .All you need is a container of water with a vacuum line in it but not in the water just to suck up the water vapors . When it hits the hot piston it creates steam .Steam = pressure