That was a really good article in the Progressive Engineer, some really interesting numbers.
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"I have weighed in on this topic before as a firm skeptic of the small electrolysis based systems - they simply do not produce enough hydrogen to displace gasoline in the combustion process"
The idea wasn't to displace it. The idea was to replace a percentage of the air with it. This new environment allowed you to burn normal gasoline, but at leaner ratios. Nothing more.
But I agree. I've looked into it (I wanted it to be true) and I don't see the volume of hydrogen produced to affect the mileage in any real way.
By my calculations (open to error) you would require approximately 100 amps (continuous) to produce approximately enough hydrogen to have it comprise 5% of the burning mix of a 250 running at cruising RPM. That basically means a devoted alternator added to the system. Nobody was doing anything like that.
I never wanted to bring hydrogen as a fuel into this, the article I read wasn't using hydrogen as the primary fuel. It was about enleaning the standard gas/air mix and it caught my eye. Just thought I'd point it out to anyone curious about the hydrogen boost idea (even if wrong).
