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Re: Water to Fuel Cars

In order for this whole thing to work you need to use the following equations: you must have the chemical formula H20 + energy → HHO to create the HHO gas from water. When the gas is burned, you have the formula HHO → H20 + energy. This appears to not need any extra oxygen (as a combustion reaction would), since all this seems to do is rearrange the shape of H20 to HHO, while storing energy in this new configuration.

This isn't electrolysis, as the H20 is never split into hydrogen + oxygen. It's just rearranged into a less stable form with a lot of pent-up chemical energy. (At least that is what I understand from the information provided.)

When they refer to powering cars off HHO, I don't think they mean like the way hydrogen is used in fuel cells. Rather, I think all they do is take the HHO gas and feed that directly into the internal combusison engine in a regular car. The only modifications they need to your car is a new carburetor / fuel-injector to one which can handle the HHO gas instead of (or in addition to) liquid gasoline.
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