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Re: Impressed with my truck's mileage.
Just watched the video and shot it full of holes. First off, he started it cold, there will always be water on cold start. Any combustion process has some water as a byproduct. Next he is using a simple process whereby you break water down into oxygen and hydrogen by electrolosis. The amount of hydrogen & oxygen produced is small and the speed of production is very slow. You would need 50,000 or 60,000 cubic feet a minute to make any difference. A cubic foot of gas is 288 cubic inches. 1 revolution of the eng is 350 cubic inches. With that info in hand, at an idle of 650RPM you would be processing 187,200 cubic feet of a gas for every minute of operation. Think about it for a minute. In this day and age when the car companies are looking for every advantage to boost fuel economy and in turn sales, don't you think they would be all over this like white on rice? Hydrogen production is expensive because it uses lots of electricity. In a vehicle, where does that come from? The alternator. What runs that, the engine. Which in turn gets it's energy from it's fuel. What the writer in the article is suggesting is a perpetual motion machine which defies all the laws of physics. Don't waste your money. Tune the eng, go thru the carb and lean it out, drive with a soft right foot. jim
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1984 K20 350M engine with 465,000 miles. Well, it's finally done!! Almost 2 years of work, but it was really worth the effort. Little stuff left to do is mount winch, wet sand & buff out and build belly pan\running boards. Body work takes lots and LOTS of beer!!!! God, Guts and Guns made America and God, Guts and Guns will preserve it! The worst thing you could do is get into my sights, but that don't matter, you'll never know it, cause you'll never hear the shot  Jim or Paladin whichever you choose.
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