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Re: Toyota Hydrogen Car Wed, 07 August 2002 12:13 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
My uncle has been running a 5hp Briggs and Stratton pump on Hydrogen for years. His conversion chamber is only about 3 litres capacity and produces plenty of hydrogen to run the engine for donkeys ages.
For those who are curious, he adds a solution (salty I think) to the water and runs an electric current through the water via a couple of electrodes (I'm sure everyone did this at school) and hey presto, hydrogen bubbles!

He then runs the hydrogen down a tube (under its own pressure created from the sealed water cylinder) into a crude gas carby.
The result is a mad sounding pump (pop,pop,pop:)

I could only then assume that by having a larger tank of water (say normal fuel tank capacity) you could run a standard engine with an LPG setup for a thousand kilometers before dumping the water and replacing it with freshly solutioned water. You would of course need to start the engine on other fuel so it would get the current going and therefore start the bubbles a flowin!
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