Posted by 6U684 on January 13, 2009 at 07:53:14 from (67.224.28.37):
Ran across this from a friend: An aluminum/hdrogen fuel cell, to provide power for a motor vehicle
Forbes.com
I will tell you of a method of producing Hydrogen "On Demand." Simply take a stainless steel tank with water, add Sodium Hydroxide, which is common "Red Devil Lye" and then scrap aluminum. The reaction is immediate! The spent aluminum combines with all the Oxygen and falls to the bottom of the tank in the form of a fine powder.
The lye is never used up, although it will suffer a small loss over time through attrition and a little will need to be added occasionally. The result is that Hydrogen is released. Simply connect your generator unit (the stainless steel tank) to an air tank with a popoff valve, then add a valve and run the Hydrogen to the carb, or the air intake, and run your car on pure Hydrogen.
If you have a very small tank it will help a lot. If you produce enough, it will require no gas at all. Any excess Hydrogen will just be vented into the air and not hurt anything. The generator tank will need to be cleaned out ever week or two and is recycleable. Any scrap aluminum will work, even old beer cans, however, beer cans have a coating that slows the reaction and don't have a lot of mass.
A better solution is busted up aluminum transmission cases, etc. Here you have clean aluminum in bulk. In order to run your car on pure Hydrogen, the timing should be set to top dead center because it burns much quicker than gasoline. There are electronic units available on the net for under $40 that will accomplish this from inside your car, so you truly have a dual fuel system. THIS WORKS. Put a small amount in a test tube and prove it for yourself!
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