Cars run on water: Miracle or scam?

World Net Daily, CNN ^ | 05-20-06

[floridaobserver]

Though the developer of a technology that uses water to produce a flammable gas says it provides a solution to high gas prices plaguing the nation, detractors claim the businessman's idea is a scam.

Denny Klein is president of Hydrogen Technologies Applications in Clearwater, Fla. His patented machine uses an electrical charge to separate the atoms of H2O into HHO, a gas he calls "Aquygen."

"You get a huge energy response," Klein told the Tampa Tribune. "But this gas is very, very safe."

He first used the fuel to power a welding tool, but soon tried it out in a hybrid automobile.

The flame, though on its own registers just 259 degrees Fahrenheit, heats up to the melting point of whatever substance it touches, explained Steve Lusko, project manager for Hydrogen Technologies Applications.

"For example, when you ignite our flame and touch it to steel, it will cut right through it at 1,400 degrees," Lusko told WND.

"It will melt a hole right through a brick at 4,500 degrees. … It reacts to whatever it touches."

So, Lusko says, the gas has the ability to bond to whatever fuel it is mixed with, like gasoline in a hybrid car.

"Upon combustion, you get a dramatic increase in energy BTUs," he said, "and you get an equally dramatic decrease in emission pollution, because the burn is so highly efficient, what would have come out of the tailpipe as an emission ends up getting burned up and used."

An "electrolyzer" in Klein's 1994 Ford Escort uses electricity from the alternator to initiate the electrolysis process to make the HHO gas out of water, explained Lusko. That gas is then pumped to the manifold and into the gas tank.

"The gas then bonds with the gasoline in the gas tank," Lusko said, "and then upon combustion, that's when you get the reaction, giving you higher gas mileage and cleaner emissions."

Why not run a car with exclusively HHO gas?

"We have combustion engines here that have run completely on our Aquygen," Lusko said, "but it would be a matter of engineering."

Lusko says in tests the mileage of the hybrid vehicle has improved anywhere from 25 to 53 percent.

[floridaobserver]

CNN and Fox News is also impressed. See the video

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/tech/2006/05/23/patrick.fl.h2o.car.wtvt

http://hytechapps.com/applications/HHOS.htm

Is it valid or hype? The CNN report looks pretty convincing. If he is taking the company public as he plans, he will have to have everything documented beforehand.

[Steely Tom]

Scam.

[Ichneumon]

Let me be the first one to say, "bulls**t".

It's a scam.

[RichardW]

I've seen it but I don't believe it. It can't be this simple although I wish it was so.

[ClearCase_guy]

The flame, though on its own registers just 259 degrees Fahrenheit, heats up to the melting point of whatever substance it touches

Now I can melt tungsten at home!

Who believes this crap?

[TOWER]

Sounds very fishy to me. I say it's a scam.

[Fintan]

 

I'm guessing "scam"...

[camle]

H2O to HHO to HOHOHO to UHOH

and yer money's gone.

[wolfpat]

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[tet68]

"For example, when you ignite our flame and touch it to steel, it will cut right through it at 1,400 degrees," Lusko told WND.


1400 degrees ! Bwhahahahahah! Why the stuff isn't even soft yet.

[Ranger Drew]

Let me be the first one to say, "bulls**t". It's a scam.

Spoken like one of those guys who told the Wright Brothers,..."If man were meant to fly, he'd have wings."

[kingu]

Hype. Ford, GM, etc would be bashing down his door right now trying to nab his technology were it real. In seconds they could wipe out the CAFE standards for fuel efficiency and have millions of consumers beating down their doors.

[kellynla]

1923 Stanley Steamer



In 1906, the Stanley Rocket set the world land speed record at 127.7 mph (205.5 km/h) at the Daytona Beach Road Course, driven by Fred Marriott, picking up the Dewar Trophy in the process.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

If his name was "Larry", I'd believe it. Otherwise, it's BS.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Yeh, we tried that and found that we couldn't carry enough coal or water to make work.

[Abathar]

Buy a tank of hydrogen and a tank of oxygen and bubble it through a pipe in your gas tank. Of course adding pure oxygen to something like gasoline is a recipe for a major explosion, so be careful not to blow yourself up.

Seems to me it would drop the octane rating of the gas, causing it to knock and premature ignite, like cheap gas does. Making the gas more explosive is easy, slowing it down just a touch is what you pay more money for at the pump.

[Ranger Drew]

I just think folks ought to wait a bit and see before they offhandedly bash everything.

Oh, wait, this is Free Republic.

NEVERMIND.

[MeanWestTexan]

"Hydrogen Technologies Applications in Clearwater, Fla"

Clearwater = Scientology.

That's moonbat central.

[Always Right]

What story has WND reported over recent years that hasn't been a scam?

[floridaobserver]

How many of you have taken the time to look at the CNN video?