Hydrogen gas could be used for heating, or to power our vehicles, machinery and generate electricity
Hydrogen is set to provide the energy for the future economies.
Few nice facts about the hydrogen:
- It is the simplest, the lightest and the most common element in the Universe
- There is plenty of hydrogen on our planet locked up in the form of water
- When hydrogen burns it produces heat and water and there is no carbon emissions or any other pollution
Apart from these wonderful properties hydrogen also has a much less convenient property of being the lightest of all gases, that is extremely hard to compress and
store efficiently.
For industrial applications like welding the hydrogen is stored in high pressure metal bottles.
Luckily an alternative technology already is emerging that solves the troublesome hydrogen storage problem.
The system is called hydrogen on demand and in the following video
Peter Lindemann explains the concept behind the Stanley Meyers patent.
Hydrogen on demand
The water fuel cells are hydrogen on demand devices, and in the following video Peter Lindemann explains the concept behind the Stanley Meyers patent.
This kind of system doesn't actually produce pure hydrogen and oxygen gases, but a gas known as brown gas, hydroxy or HHO which has the same ingredients
as the water: one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms, but they are arranged differently then in water molecules.
The HHO gas is highly combustible and is suitable as fuel.
It is unstable, but that is hardly a problem since in hydrogen on demand systems the gas is consumed as produced, without any storage.
Cells that produce HHO gas are also refereed to as water fuel cells, and they are not to be confused with the
hydrogen fuel cells
that perform the reverse process of recombining the oxygen and hydrogen back into water to produce electricity.
The HHO water fuel cell fitted into a car is claimed to provide a fuel saving between 20% and 40%, but this surplus of energy is not
coming from nothing or from the water itself.
Instead the cell improves the fossil fuel combustion efficiency and that way directly reduces the car's effective carbon emissions.
For DIY minded here is the Brown's Gas Book II that focuses on
details on how to build brown gas electrolyser for torch.
Production cars with HHO water fuel cells are not available yet, and the only option for now is to get one of the many DIY kits available on the market.
While those who are sceptical about the potential of the onboard produced 130+ octane hydrogen should check out Scorpion HX,
and the detail that achieves 40 miles/gallon, despite its 3.5 liter, 600 hp V6 engine. Scorpion simply calls it H2Go technology.
The fact that the company of such reputation works on a hydrogen on demand system means that the such systems have the potential to provide
same extra horse power, and not just save the planet. Hopefully the system will also become feasible for mass production.
Other methods of hydrogen on demand production systems are also being developed.
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