Using Water As Fuel For Cars
Every alternative to gas is getting looked at as the prices of gasoline see no respite in the rise upwards. Even water as fuel for cars is getting some press. However this description is slightly misleading as water cannot be used directly. Rather it is a source of hydrogen gas that is split from oxygen via a chemical process. This gas is used to power the car rather than the water itself. Specialized equipment can allow you to separate the hydrogen element from the oxygen in water, and to put the hydrogen to use in your car’s fuel injection system.
There are two systems that are most common for utilizing water as fuel for cars. The first system, a hybrid type system supplements your vehicle’s gasoline fueled engine with hydrogen gas. The second system relies on hydrogen gas production either on board or off-vehicle.
A hybrid hydrogen gas fueling system lessens the amount of gasoline used by your car by largely extending how many miles you get to the gallon and by also reducing the emissions coming from your car as hydrogen gas is clean burning and has absolutely no emissions. The hydorgen gas is effectively an additive to get better economy out of the fuel that you are currently using. If used only with oxygen, hydrogen emissions are nothing but water vapor.
Kits for converting to water as fuel for cars range in price from less than a hundred dollars for plans to build your own system using easy to find parts from auto parts and hardware stores, to kits costing several thousand dollars that include everything needed to convert your vehicle. True water as fuel for cars systems convert your vehicle to one hundred percent hydrogen fuel. This type of system is the most expensive and complicated to install but when you are done your visits to the gas station are over. Using much larger water holding tanks, or fuel cells with internal hydrogen processing equipment, these systems typically require much more room in the vehicle to install.
If you are fortunate enough to live near a hydrogen producing plant or fueling station you can opt for a system that has an on board storage tank for the hydrogen gas itself. Using this method lets the plant or fueling station convert the water to fuel for you thereby doing away with the need for the on board hydrogen extraction equipment.
Vehicle manufacturers such as Honda and BMW are designing their new model vehicles with a view to using built-in tanks to store water as fuel for cars. Given the present lack of availability of hydrogen fueling stations, major automobile manufacturers will be constrained to offer only hydrogen/gasoline hybrid systems. The engines that will be used in these cars will be modified version of the same manufacturers’ gasoline engines and this modification will give optimum performance.
Water as fuel is a safe technology but is not exactly how it sound in the description. It is about changing water to hydrogen gas, that is currently used in various applications, including space exploration, for over a hundred years with few major refinements unlike gasoline-powered vehicles. Though it will take some time before you see a hydrogen refueling station in your suburb using water as fuel for your car is a reality today.