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Has anyone used a Hydrogen cell with great results?
I made my own and it seems to work just fine! I am well pleased but know of no one else personally. Is this easy process still a myth to the masses? Loads of info out there to look at! I can only relate it being safer than butane, propane, and natural gas when used as produced with no reserve to explode! A easy boost in power as to improving pump gas in every aspect. It takes less voltage to produce than a tail light bulb! Very little is needed to enhance your engines performance! Drawn in with the air from outside your engine as a more of a better air mixture than a different kind of fuel!
The production is used as made! Works as a add-on to any motor as to improve the efficiency not to be run as a Hydrogen fuel only! No refilling for months of a quart of distilled water! You ingest with the air being pulled in! You still need gas or diesel! You just use less fuel with more horse-power to move with ease! No new car, tank of compressed fuel, or stations needed! Henry Ford could have used this it is so simple! A magnet can produce what you need if the water is in vapor form! Very little is needed to boost your horsepower so that you don't need to mash on the gas pedal so much!
Did you know that if aluminum paint is put on the under side of galvanized tin in the sun light, it produces hydrogen gases that can explode! Water is condensed hydrogen! Is our body's not safe with it's content ? Do some of your own research! My cell cost less than 20 bucks to make and installed in 5 minutes! Granted I did do some Research of my own but nothing different other than the simplicity of the process! A two plate design that takes less than a bulb to operate!
This is all my findings and if you have never built or conceived the concept and applied it to your own usage ,get you head out of the sand and stop thinking and do something productive! The world is full of skeptical smart people! Not all balk at improvement without research and testing! Even the suns energy with the use of two metals can produce Hydrogen in its transfer of heat!
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- monkeyboyLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Hydrogen is not an efficient source of energy. You use more energy to split it from water than is produced. There are some basic tenants of physics...energy cannot be created nor destroyed, and you can't get more energy out of something than you put in. That is why things like what you are talking about are not possible...losses due to inefficiency, among everything else, ALWAYS result in a net loss when converting energy from one form, to another. In this case, you are talking about converting the energy of gasoline (engine, which is something like 20% efficient) to electrical (alternator), then using that energy to create hydrogen. Since there are massive losses in a gasoline engine, then the losses to the bearings in an alternator, then heat lost in wiring/connectors, there is no way you are recouping even 80% of what was lost, let alone the more than likely 95% that is lost after going all the way through to the hydrogen "conversion" portion.
Sorry, not sure if you copied/pasted your info from some myth website or what, but scientific fact does not change that...go ahead and add aluminum paint to galvanized tin, do either of those products/process use no energy to create/manufacture/deliver to market? Are they free to all? Right.
Hydrogen is just like wind power. Without the incentive of government subsidies, they fail. That is shown when market forces alone are used, at which time both hydrogen and wind power dries up. The amount of energy developed for the amount of energy, materials, and money expended is the exact opposite of what is needed to make it low cost. In fact, both wind and hydrogen are more expensive than what is used to extract the energy from either "source".
Solar is the only one that has a chance, as solar panels have a ~20 year life span, require little maintenance (no moving parts, no complex distribution problems) and rely solely on the sun for energy. Even wind power relies on the sun, but the sun is only one factor in how the wind "starts"...so its even less efficient than solar.
- HumveetechLv 77 years ago
Hydrogen Cells have been looked at by the masses & hasnt been deemed a safe & reliable source of energy for automotive application where they can make money by selling the car at a reasonable rate from the sheer cost & the low return in output. But I guess all the large car manufactures with endless funded to their engineers haven;t thought of what you made already, just isnt cost effective
Look at CNG, cost on it to refill are staggering low but the demand of the people to go out & buy a CNG hasnt changed even though we all see the gas pumps with half the price of gasoline plastered all over it & it is a lot cheaper to produce a CNG automobile than it would be to produce a Hydrogen Cell powered automobile so there is no demand for a hydrogen cell powered car regardless of how efficient it may be
