[Eco] convert your car to run on water

[Carol Townsend]

Chris is right, it's not feasible to run your car on water.

>From the site Maria sent:

"Our easy conversion guide will show you how to use electricity from your
car's battery to separate water into a gas called HHO (2 Hydrogen + 1
Oxygen). HHO, also called *Brown's Gas* or Hydroxy, burns smoothly and
provides significant energy - while the end product is just H2O! HHO
provides the atomic power of Hydrogen, while maintaining the stability of
water."

A former chemistry teacher's answer (me):
H20 and HHO are the same thing.  No conversion has happened.  HHO does not
burn.  Hydrogen (in the form of H2... 2 Hydrogen atoms bonded together)
burns just fine... and it combines with oxygen in and gives you H2O again.

To do this, you have to separate the water into Oxygen and Hydrogen.  Water
is basically an Oxygen with a Hydrogen hanging out on opposite sides.  It
can be diagrammed fairly accurately like this:
  H - O - H

The Hydrogens are not attached to each other - they are each separately
attached to the Oxygen.

To get Hydrogen to burn, you have to first separate it from the Oxygen.
That takes a certain amount of energy.  So you pump energy into the system
to yank the Hydrogens off the Oxygen.  Cool... then you burn the hydrogen.

The amount of energy you get back when you burn the hydrogen is the same as
the amount you put in to pull the hydrogen off the oxygen in the first
place.  Which you then have to put back into the system to yank off the next
hydrogens to burn, which gives you energy again... which you have to put
back into the system to yank the next hydrogens off....

You see the problem?  You'll never get any "extra" energy to run your car.
All the energy you get out of the system is the same amount of energy you
need to put into it in the first place.

On top of that, you won't *really* get all that energy out of the system...
there will always be some energy lost to heat (or light as it burns....
that's a form of energy too) and you can't capture all of it... so actually,
you put MORE energy into the system than you can actually get back out
again.

It sounds too good to be true... and it is.

Hope that helped!
Carol

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Maria P <mudpuppy1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Convert your car to run on water.   Anyone know if this is for real?
> --Maria
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> http://www.runyourcarwithwater.com/?hop=opmind&gclid=ckwhsjhxrpicfqjdswodwx37qq
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