Reply #11: Hydrogen fuel injection in a gas-powered car is a proven technology

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But most of the previous scientific studies have involved a means to capture the hydrogen directly from the hydrocarbon-rich gasoline itself and re-feed it through the intake manifold with the air-fuel mixture. The idea is that it burns more of the gas in the car and creates better gas mileage. J. Houseman of the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory made studies of this under NASA funding in the 1970s, publishing peer-reviewed papers such as "Lean Combustion of Hydrogen Gasoline Mixtures" (abstracts of papers of the American Chemical Society (169): 6-6 1975) and a paper along with colleague D.J. Cerini published for the Society of Automotive Engineers titled "On-Board Hydrogen Generator for a Partial Hydrogen Injection Internal Combustion Engine". There was also a paper of F.W. Hoehn and M.W. Dowy, also of the Jet Propulsion Lab, prepared for the 9th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, titled "Feasibility Demonstration of a Road Vehicle Fueled with Hydrogen Enriched Gasoline."

However, I don't think these older studies tried getting the hydrogen from water through electrolysis, and instead developed devices to extract it from the gasoline and re-feed it into the engine. But the concept of hydrogen injection into gasoline is the same: the hydrogen gas burns a lot hotter and, when burned in the engine along with the air and gasoline will burn the fuel more completely, resulting in more efficient gas mileage. I'd like to see scientific studies about the effectiveness of using water and electrolysis to obtain the small amounts of hydrogen this system requires. I don't know if it's a scam but I try to keep an open mind, especially considering how important it is that we develop more efficient systems for the use of energy. I think we need to study everything.