Comments on: Episode 53: Exploding Pants

By: Atom

Atom — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:02:18 +0000

I’m trying the hho generator to run a car with water and i have successes in this experiment my car running with brown gas

By: Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:31:54 +0000

Hello. Great job. I did not expect this in the early morning. Good job!

By: Clifford M Skinner Jr

Clifford M Skinner Jr — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:35:15 +0000

I am with sure thinking in 1938 their was a John Deere tractor with a tank for kerosene and another tank for water. The tecknology has been around many years. The oil companies buy out right of production of water for fuel.

It is all making money and controling new ways and ideas.

Thank you,

Clifford

By: TieltyRixewly

TieltyRixewly — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:29:48 +0000

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By: Hiestpioppy

Hiestpioppy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:59:20 +0000

Are you kidding me!!??? Swine FLU??? In sommer in heat? Is it undisturbed possible? I am from Cali and I nervous! Freeze flourishing!

By: AnnerseJafsal

AnnerseJafsal — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:47:07 +0000

Our neighbors throing the total into the open of the fridge! They ve bought pork recently and the proprietor said that it was from mexico! Should we not pack away pork now?

By: Chris Bird

Chris Bird — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:17:17 +0000

I am interested in the total energy of the system. That includes:

The energy required to manufacture all the parts.
The energy required to move the materials around
The energy required to power the vehicle
The energy required to generate the stuff that powers the vehicle, etc.

Let’s assume that adding hydrogen in some proportion to the fuel mixture increases the efficiency of the engine – so adding some amount of hydrogen + oxygen to gasoline through the carburetor does indeed deliver an increase in power/an increase in fuel economy and other benefits. If you like to think of this on the “value” side of the energy equation.

We need to think on the cost side – as well. What in terms of energy does it cost us to get that value? Electrolysis causing the water to break into its 2H2 + O2 components takes some amount of energy. The same amount as is released when hydrogen is burned in oxygen. Now if the energy required for electrolysis were to be otherwise wasted, then we would be on to something. So, for example, if the alternator were producing a certain amount of (electrical) energy and only 1/2 were used, then increasing the energy recapture by 50% would mean that we are diverting less energy to waste. That would perhaps be a good thing.

So maybe the way to think about this is that we are using such devices to capture wasted energy, and this is a good thing.

If we are simply trading one form of energy for another then that is a bad thing, because such energy trades are generally wasteful.

So as an energy recovery system perhaps this has promise. As a something for nothing system it doesn’t!

By: HowlingMadDog

HowlingMadDog — Sun, 31 May 2009 09:20:45 +0000

I’m not an engineer. Moreinclined towards basic Economics.But I love all this. When the guys that own the oil realise that “Joe -on-thr-street” is debating alternatives to oil, they would be stupid not to realise they could lose their ranch soon?
I have a gas-guzzling Alfa. But it’s surprisingly light on fuel if I drive carefully. Lately it has become a game to me. I monitor my fuel cosumption on a spreadsheet just to see how lw I can get it. Bearing in mind my friends think I’m a speed freak. The Arabs are going to force people like me to deny them their inheritance.

Re the water injection – I was lead to believe that it was the cooling effect (entering the chamber) combined with the oxygen content that caused increased efficiency? That was in the 80’s ?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:54:37 +0000

In the beginning I watched youe show every time I could catch it on. It was great seeing myths that worked or didn’t. Then it went another direction and I lost total interest. We need shows that connect with everyday life, The world is in crises and we need a program that xcan spark our interest and imagination to solve todays and future problems. The internet is full of ideas. Please stay with the program like Mother Earth was in the past. Stop the just entertainment shows, they are not interesting anymore. Show us what we want to see and not what you think, get into the real world and eduacte us as you did in the beginning.

By: jonathan singer

jonathan singer — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:14:23 +0000

I watched this episode and was appalled with their testing method. Heck, if they had used the same methods with gasoline, it would have backfired too and they could have said that it was a failure also.
One thing you have to remember about this world we live in, everything is about greed and money. They were probably compensated well for debunking the use of hydrogen as a fuel. There are trillions of dollars wrapped up in the energy business, with hundreds of thousands of people employed. If you developed a kit that could be retro-fitted onto must vehicles, and could easily be made by the average joe, it would cost them billions of dollars every year in profits. To say nothing of all those employed who would have to go out and find another way of making a living. They would prefer that the transition to hydrogen be a smooth one, so the masses will continue to be dependent on their product, and thus, ensuring the continuation of their exorbitant profits. It is unlikely that they (or our governments)would let it happen any other way. Hydrogen will someday be used as a fuel, but not until big business can figure out a way to milk all they can from us.