Man uses hydrogen to increase gas mileage

www.leadertelegram.com ^ | 7-7-08 | By Pamela Powers

[Red Badger]

Okay, why is this man lying? or is he?.............

[weegee]

And he uses cellphones to pop popcorn.

[Always Right]

This story is atleast plausable.

[K-oneTexas]

You couls try this: http://www.halfwaterhalfgas.com/hydra.php

[Yo-Yo]

An extra computer circuit board makes sure the car's computer understands the exhaust is cleaner than regular gas to ensure mileage increases.

There's your source of the mileage increase.

[kms61]

One of our local car dealers is offering this gizmo as an option.

[antiRepublicrat]

noting it is like using a higher-octane fuel

Which is useless unless the engine was designed to take advantage of high-octane fuel, mainly being able to run with a higher compression ratio. If it only has the effect of upping octane, then it would only be useful in that you could run a high-octane engine on regular gas.

[Red Badger]

And he uses cellphones to pop popcorn.

And you don't?...............

[Red Badger]

You think they are screwing with the computer’s innards?...........

[mnehring]

Mythbusters (and Popular Mechanics) zotted these claims.

[massgopguy]

and had fun doing it.

[Red Badger]

http://www.silobreaker.com/DocumentReader.aspx?Item=5_877637385

[savedbygrace]

IMO, since he paid all that money and stuff, he has changed the way he drives, and 100% of his increased mileage is due to those changed driving habits.

IMO.

Nythbusters busted the hydrogen add-on some time ago. Busted it hard. Here:

http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2006/05/exploding_trousers_great_gas_conspiracy.html

[Arkansas Toothpick]

What I don’t understand is why everyone isn’t getting new computer programming if that leads to such a large increase? Something isn’t computing with this HHO stuff. I keep reading about people getting increases in mileage yet everyone here says its impossible from a physics standpoint.

[Yo-Yo]

You think they are screwing with the computer’s innards?...........

Yup.

[savedbygrace]

I’m ham-fisted today.

Nythbusters = Mythbusters

[mnehring]

http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/1802932.html?series=19

[xDGx]

FRAUD and complete BS.

This has been debunked so many places I’m not sure where to start. And it always winds up being some backyard mechanic with fantastic claims and ZERO dyno tests to prove any of it. And of course the ‘big oil coverup’ nonsense is not far behind.

If this crap did anything remotely close to what it claimed, even 10% of the claimed improvement it would be standard equipment. Automakers spend billions trying to meet CAFE standards, but something on the Intraweb can do better than all of them put together. What absolute rubbish.

[Charles Martel]

An extra computer circuit board makes sure the car's computer understands the exhaust is cleaner than regular gas to ensure mileage increases.

Sounds like he's spoofing the O2 sensor(s). Tricking the computer into leaning out the mixture would yield an mpg increase, but as for the hydrogen foolishness, I ask again - how is that small apparatus going to create that much HHO?

[mnehring]

A lot of the computer programming is because of emission regulations. I bet running a straight exhaust with no muffler or catalytic converter would bump your mileage up a little too.. but most States won't allow it.