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To: LegendHasIt
Adding the hydrogen isn't going to make more efficient... For more efficient combustion, you would want to inject the oxygen, not the hydrogen....

It's not as simple as all that. Adding more oxygen than the stoichiometric ratio requires won't help. However, it is possible that the device in the OP delivers all the electrolyzed gases to the engine, in which case it's fortifying the normal fuel-air charge with the exact ratio of hydrogen and oxygen to get perfect combusion... no hydrogen or oxygen left over. I would think that this mixture would be extremely ignitable, more so than the regular gasoline-air mix the engine usually gets.

49 posted on 01/02/2009 2:13:04 PM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Oberon

But doesn’t the hydrogen-oxygen mixture burn at a much lower specific heat than does gasoline and air, much less gasoline and oxygen?

The only benefit I see (if that is correct) is that the spark plugs will last longer ;-)


56 posted on 01/02/2009 2:21:42 PM PST by LegendHasIt (Freepmail me if you want to join the Precious Metals ping list.)
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