Safe Hydrogen Fuel System Ready for Market and Your Car!
Last May, I wrote about Jim Hunt, a student at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois concerning his plasmatic induction system that turns water into hydrogen gas to fuel your vehicle.
Today, the system works, and Jim is looking for a company to manufacture and market his invention. His patent is secure, the system is proven and now ready to produce.
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The YouTube video above shows Jim and his crew burning a hole in a stainless steel bowl with the hydrogen gas produced by his system.
His workshop is located on four acres of property in Monmouth, Illinois, and Jim says he’s been running cars and an old fire engine around the property using hydrogen produced by his invention. He also runs a 16 KW diesel engine generator with the system.
I interviewed Jim on Planetsave, where he talks about his invention and its future.
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This is all very nice, but the inventor was never asked about how much energy is required to generate the plasma to separate the hydrogen in the first place. There is no explanation about how much energy has to go into the plasma conversion versus how much comes out.
The water car inventors who attach a jar of water to their cars with some electrodes in it claim they get better fuel mileage, but they always forget that the energy required to separate the hydrogen (from the car’s battery) is more than what is returned by burning the hydrogen.
The law of conservation of energy still holds.
So in this case, do the vehicles running on this hydrogen generator have to have large electric batteries installed on them to generate the plasma? What’s the energy efficiency rate? Wikipedia puts high temp electrolysis at 40-60%, and since internal combustion engines are already inefficient compared to electric ones, that would put this system somewhere in the neighbourhood of 25% efficiency. (or less)
Therefore, pure electric cars would still be better.
The only benefit I can see is that it could enable people to convert gas engines to electric power in a simpler manner and perhaps cheaper than replacing the engine and controllers.
as a very big fan of this blog, i think posting this on ‘plasmatic induction’ is very controversial and not nearly as well researched as what’s reported normally.
Yes, the inventor has employees and college backing and even a patent but the fact of the matter is, the process takes energy.
Hydrogen Technology Applications, Inc. had come up with similar ideas. They marketed themselves as having technology that can make a “car can run exclusively on water” and “can go 100 miles on just 4 ounces of water” It just wasn’t true. Physics won’t allow it, as it takes more energy to convert water to hydrogen, than the power it can deliver once consumed. However, HTAI’s systems can increase gasoline fuel mileage with the delivery of the hydrogen and oxygen gasses being delivered to the intake manifold.
in csc inventors club own blog the inventor makes the statement ‘My invention overcomes the inefficiency of stored, dangerous fuels that damage the environment’
I bet their patent has to do more about making something in the process more efficient, not a revolutionary new process make Hydrogen to power vehicles.
Its the wonder of their claims that makes them sound very much like a hoax.
it would do this blog good to keep out perpetual motion or ‘free energy’ posts
I wish It was able to hit the market $4.00gl for gas is what i payed yesterday I’m working to come to work this is nuts we need to come up with sum thing asap
The sad fact is that the world government’s are going to take a long time to step away from gas/petrol/etc. Still, good to see strides being made. This is where Big Business has to step up and take the bit between their teeth, and push it forward
This new energy -H20 converted to HHO- need to be compared with the other inventors: byron, stan meyers, and paul pantone. these new conversions are not high temp electrolysis. it is interesting that the economic powers are unsupportive but interested.
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I think this may or may not work depending on how alternators work (which I’m unsure about). The alternator in your car charges your car’s battery. If it is always charging the battery, even when the battery is full then that is wasted energy. If that is the case then using some extra energy from your car battery to turn water into hydrogen and oxygen isn’t going to really be a drain on your energy, it’s just using the existing energy more efficiently.
I suspect that most cars, especially older cars, work like this; having the alternator constantly charging the car battery.
However if the alternator only charges the car battery when it needs to be charged, then this would be a net loss in efficiency because it takes more energy to separate water into its component gases than you will get back when you burn them.
I just want to know if it will work in a 94 olds cutlass supreme? As he mentioned above……gas is getting way too out of hand for me to squeeze every nickle I have just to get to work!
I have seen some people claim that it wont work because the Alternators would require more energy to produce the Hydrogen thus lowering your gas mpg. The problem with that theory is that the alternator is always turning so energy is being wasted regardless. If not electrical energy wasted it is mechanical energy wasted so there would be not addition strain on your engin. So in theory it should work. It may require some engine adjustments to keep the sensors for over compensating but that should be fairly easy.