Boating less due to fuel prices?

Well it may not add credibility, but just saw the Aquagen company and their HHO invention I posted a while back on our local KTLA news station that broadcasts to Los Angeles and most of So Cal. They are claiming to have perfected the process to run an automobile engine on distilled water -- again did not elaborate that it is only a 'supplement' to gas, not 100% water.

They added a little more information regarding the number of liters of air and electrical energy required to produce a liter of fuel. And that they are in process working with the military to modify a HMMWV for testing. ....still watching....
 
Another comment. Seems like this (if true of course) is just converting one form of energy into another -- at a rather healthy expense (I suspect in the 20-25% conversion efficiency range). Converts electrical energy into a gas which is burnable in a combustion engine rather than just using the electrical energy to run an electric motor, thus saving the purchase/conversion to an electric powerplant. Brown's gas comes to mind also, quite similar.

OTOH, this gas should be able to be produced at a plant using alternative fuels such as coal, wood, kerosene, alcohol, solar, etc., then stored and delivered to autos, trucks and BOATs so that the conversion energy losses aren't subtracted from the vehicle's power equation. The 'storage of hydrogen' problem would have to be solved though, quite unstable. As Robin Williams said on Jay Leno the other night, he has one word for hydrogen power -- Hindenburg.

At least the byproducts of the vehicular combustion would be extremely low on bad emissions, if any, and of course reduced dependency on fossil fuels. Just my 2 c.
 
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