Free (or Really Cheap)Fuel
OK, I know this is a bit off the track of really free or cheap things, because this is initially going to cost you anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, but the pay back is HUGE, (you could actually wind up way ahead monetarily) and it really is fun. What I’m talking about is running your car, motorcycle, boat, motor home, generator or any other fossil fuel (gasoline or diesel or propane, etc.) powered device on water. That’s right, water. The technology exists, and has for quite a while, but due to many political and financial factors, it isn’t being publicized or utilized.
You have probably already heard about hydrogen powered vehicles. That technology is being used for some government vehicles, like buses, on a small scale, and a few auto manufactures have prototype vehicles using it , as well. This is a similar technology, but from the consumers viewpoint, very superior. There are several problems with hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) powered vehicles. First, the fuel cells themselves are exspensive to produce and refill, and there isn’t a network yet developed to distribute them. Second, the fuel itself is exspensive to produce and store, since the hydrogen has to be compressed under tremendous pressure in order to store it in reasonably sized cells. And finally, compressed hydrogen is very explosive and dangerous, so vehicles using it have to have specially reinforced storage ares to hold the cells, since a rupture due to a collision could create a huge explosion (think of the Hindenburg, on a slightly smaller scale).
Water fueled vehicles use the same technology, but without all of the problems. Basically, a simple device that uses the excess electricity generated by your current internal combustion engine converts water into it’s component parts, hydrogen and oxygen. H2O becomes HOH gas, when a properly aligned electric current is passed through it, and the volatile HOH gas can be burned in any internal combustion engine, which powers your alternator, which produces a small amount of extra electricity, that is used to produce more HOH gas. You only need the intial electricity to produce the HOH gas to begin with, and your existing battery can supply that. To prove this to yourself, You could simply hook an old (but fully charged) auto battery, (or one of those small square “lantern” batteries will work also) up to 2 wires hooked to a couple of small metal plates, that are immersed in water in a plastic bucket, but not touching. Within a few seconds, bubbles will start to appear in the water on one of the plates, and they will float to the surface. This is a gas composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen (HOH gas), and it is extermely volatile. Basically the same stuff that launches the space shuttle, but in a much smaller quantity. So, please don’t attempt this, and don’t light a match near the bucket if you do, since you cause a rather messy and dangerous explosion. But there are several people working on systems very similar to the electrodes in a bucket prototype, designed to safely and economically produce this fuel.
It isn’t nearly as dangerous as HFC technology, because the gas isn’t placed under extreme pressure, and the amount in the system at any one time is very small, and actually poses less of a danger in an accident than the gasoline (and it’s fumes) that you currently haul around in your car. It doesn’t require any type of special container to carry it (its just water, although distilled water is the preferred fuel), and you can get more practically anywhere, except the middle of a desert. In fact, you can use tap water, lake water or even sea water as fuel with this system, you just have to clean the electrodes more often than you would when using distilled water. Plus, when HOH gas is burned by your engine, it produces practically no pollution. The main by-product is water vapor, and some trace amounts of NO, which your current fuel also produces. But all of the other polluting gases produced by fossil fuels are eliminated! One proponent of WFV commented that its sort of like turning your car into a tree. It takes in water, and releases water vapor, and small amounts of nitrogen and oxygen. As an added bonus, since the bonds in water contain so much energy, in a properly tuned engine, you get about 2-3 times as many “miles per gallon”!
There are some additional modifications that will need to made to your engine in order for this to work. You’ll need a fuel injection system designed for propane powered vehicles, which is readily available, plus a simple electronic device to control the fuel production and flow. It will also be necessary to install stainless steel valves, and to have your pistons and cylinders coated with ceramic to avoid rust. This can be done at a shop that specilizes in “high performance cars”, or “hot rods”, since it also improves performance and horsepower. Your internal engine components will be more subceptible to rust, since you’ll be producing water, not oily gases, during combustion. You’ll probably also want to eventually replace your exhaust system with a stainlees steel muffler and pipes, once the old one rusts out, which could be a few years down the road. There will be no need to install a exspensive new catalytic converter in the new exhaust system, since you won’t be driving a fossil fueled vehicle any longer.
The whole conversion will cost you anywhere from about $500-700 dollars (if you can tear down the engine and replace the valves, and send out for the ceramic work, plus build the HOH producing module from FREE plans, and mount it yourself) to about $2000-3000, if you have all of the work done for you. So, how is this free, you ask? Well, the average person drives about 12,000 to 15,000 miles a year, and gets about 20 miles to a gallon of gas, on average, with a fairly fuel efficient car. With gas at about $3 a gallon (or more) you would spend about $1500 on gas to drive just 10,000 miles. Or, $1800 to drive 12,000 miles, or $2250 to drive 15,000 miles. And that’s every year that you drive that car.
Distilled water only costs about 60-70 cents a gallon to buy in gallon bottles, and about 6-7 cents a gallon if you buy a small distiller for about a hundred bucks, and make it yourself out of tap water. If you don’t mind cleaning the electrodes every few thousand miles, (its easy, and only takes about 20-30 minutes to do) you can even run straight tap water in the system, at only pennies a gallon. Using the worst case scenario, paying 70 cents a gallon for distilled water, only getting twice as many miles per gallon, and only driving 10,000 miles per year, your fuel will now cost you about $175 a year, instead of $1500 for gasoline. Thats a worst case savings of $1325 a year. If the conversion cost you the max of $3000, you’d be at break even in 2 years and 3 months, and save over a hundred dollars a month from then on.If you get the conversion done for a more reasonable amount, say $2000 (a four cylinder costs less than an eight cylinder to convert), get 2.5-3 times as many miles per gallon, and drive 15,000 miles a year, you could break even in less than 12 months! Plus you’d save about $150 a month from then on.
This technology isn’t just limited to automobiles, it can be used in any vehicle or device that uses gasoline or any fossil fuel. It could even be used on a larger scale in power plants to produce cheap electricity. Even including conversion costs, it could cut the average electric bill by 60-70% in less than 3 years. And the power plants could eventually produce their own distilled water, using some of the excess heat produced by combustion!
If this is such a great idea. If this really is a cheap, efficient, safe and non-polluting fuel that we have the technology to utilize, and we’ve had the technology available for decades, why aren’t all of the major auto manufacturers already turning out water fueld cars? The cost would actually be about the same, if the cars were engineered to run on water from the outset. Why are we pouring billions of dollars into oil producing countries, and financially supporting cultures and people whose main complaint seems to be that they hate Americans and our “interference”, but have no problem taking our money? Why aren’t we building power plants that run on water, instead of oil, coal or nuclear power? For the answers to those questions, see my next post. In the meantime, check out this series of videos on YouTube, which shows an actual water powered vehicle prototype actually running on water. Search YouTube for “water fueled”, and see all of the other things people are working on. Then come back in a few days to find out why the government and big business interests are ignoring and supressing this technology with a vengance.
Freebie Jack