I really don’t get it. Everybody is wringing their hands over the high price of oil and the critical damage to the environment from burning all the fossil fuels and a solution is at hand.
This post has nothing to do with NLP other than the fact that thinking like a Modern Jedi NLP Mind Master involves modeling excellence and the ability to be a flexible thinker and see solutions where others see problems.
I recently met a guy in a parking lot with a big sign on his car. “This Car Runs On Water!”
He showed me a simple system under the hood of his car that he’d installed himeself using parts and materials he got from Home Depot. He said he had doubled his mileage.
Now this idea still uses the gasoline engine, but it makes on demand HHO gas from water and adds it to the fuel mix so that your car burns cleaner and actually has more power. I thought “very interesting!”
A friend of mine who is a technical genius showed me a bunch of YouTube Videos about this. One guy was running an electrical generate for his whole house off of a 1 liter bottle of water. Think about the possibilities of being able to createyour own electricity from water! This is something that is actually doable now.
My techno friend also tested out a fuel cell prototype on his kitchen table and let me light the bubbles. Snap! There IS energy in water. So why can’t this be legit?
When you see the big companies talk about hydrogen fuel cells they are all about compressed hydrogen (kind of like propane tanks – a.k.a. dangerous, heavy and controlled by the big corporations). They want to set up a system where you buy a hydrogen fuel cell car and then fill up at their hydrogen stations. But that’s so ridiculous if you can actually create your own water hybrid and double your gas mileage with tools you have around thehouse and parts from Home Depot!
I haven’t done this myself yet, but I’m thinking of challenging my dad to a thanskgiving weekend installation project to test it out for ourselves. He drives a VW Diesel (and this works for deisels too) . THAT is thinking like a modern jedi. Exploring and testing. hmm.
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please leave a comment below to let me know your thoughts on this subject!
Hybrid conversion is most likely a scam, all the claims for which are based on anecdotal evidence. I can only find one account of an attempt to subject the claims to rigorous scrutiny, and the results were nil . . . though more testing remains to be done to see whether the perceived benefits actually come from (illegal) tampering with federally-mandated pollution control equipment or some other aspect of the modification. See http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/how_to/4276846.html
The bottom line is that water does not “contain” or “store” much energy. It is itself the product of combustion, and the only way to split the H2 from the O is to add a lot of energy to it . . . energy provided in this case by gasoline.
Hey Bob, I have to disagree with you on the “water does not contain much energy statement” I have a friend who created a hydrogen cell at his kitchen table from directions he got on youtube. I saw for myself, how simple it was to create energy. he had a continuous flame coming from a glass of water.
What I don’t understand is why there is so much mis-information out there. well, I do understand. think of the threat to the status quo and the infrastructure.
It’s just like all the naysayers of NLP. If you look it up on Wikipedia they say exactly what you jsut said. “all based on ancecdotal evidence.” Well, I’ve personally seen a bunch people get over their phobias in a single day. Even though the academics say it’s not possible.
so that causes me to be wary of dismissing something that HAS been proven. I just would like to stimulate some discussion about it before I get the kit and try it out for myself…
anyway, thanks so much for reading the blog and for your input.
all the best,
Mark
The basic physics of it is that you have to use electrolysis (i.e, add energy, usually as electricity) to the water to break the bond between the H2 and the O. When it burns (oxydizes), hydrogen is fused with oxygen again, which releases the energy added in by electrolysis, leaving you with heat and H2O.
There’s no such thing as free energy: the energy in has to equal the energy out – and the water brings hardly any chemical energy of its own.
No amount of wishful thinking will change that. Neither will a collection of anecdotes overturn centuries of systematic inquiry in physics and chemistry.
Hydrogen fuel cells are – at best – an energy storage system, not an energy production system. People hawking so-called “HHO” systems (which is itself errant nonsense) are playing on people’s misunderstanding of the physical possibilities of the technology. It is not a magic bullet that will give us free, unlimited energy.
Bob
Regarding “flame” see the following message posted on snopes.com.
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=11424
An excerpt:
“”Flame” is really water vapor with ionized salts entrained, as you’d find right above the surface of a boiling liquid. The RF induces a current along this ion plume, providing so much energy that the electrons in the ions move away from the nucleus and return, causing emission spectra. Note the jagged movement of the “flame” – a bit like lightning. The color indicates what is probably excited calcium.
“The use of salts makes the steam plume more exciting and helps draw away from the fact he’s using a very large microwave to boil water, and then using that water to turn an engine, which then generates some fraction of the energy used to boil the water.
“An exciting science project. And one of thousands of free energy scams.”
Interesting info but I need proof to believe it.