So I was watching project farms video testing some in car HHO generator that feeds the gas into the engine and reduces the regular fuel needed.
He also ran it off a generator, and he seemed to be getting similar amount of power out of the engine as used to electrolyse the water into gas, just a slight loss, but close enough.
That bothers me, because apart from the conversion of efficiency of electrolysis. The engine efficiency would be like 20%.
On the generator he was consuming about 70W of power, and run time was the same basically, a few seconds shorter, meaning the additional fuel from HHO being burned was putting out 70W or slightly under of power from the generator despite the efficiency loss.
That bothers me, because if you took a hydrogen fuel cell and fed it the gas, it’d be like 60% efficient right? Meaning 40% basically since 2/3rd of t product is hydrogen? Or around double the engine efficiency.
Meaning you put 70W electricity into water, get the gas, funnel gas into fuel cell, get around 140W out of the fuel cell as well as some heat... and your starting product, water again.
What am I missing here? It does have triple the energy as petrol, but that would also apply to the fuel cell, no?
He also ran it off a generator, and he seemed to be getting similar amount of power out of the engine as used to electrolyse the water into gas, just a slight loss, but close enough.
That bothers me, because apart from the conversion of efficiency of electrolysis. The engine efficiency would be like 20%.
On the generator he was consuming about 70W of power, and run time was the same basically, a few seconds shorter, meaning the additional fuel from HHO being burned was putting out 70W or slightly under of power from the generator despite the efficiency loss.
That bothers me, because if you took a hydrogen fuel cell and fed it the gas, it’d be like 60% efficient right? Meaning 40% basically since 2/3rd of t product is hydrogen? Or around double the engine efficiency.
Meaning you put 70W electricity into water, get the gas, funnel gas into fuel cell, get around 140W out of the fuel cell as well as some heat... and your starting product, water again.
What am I missing here? It does have triple the energy as petrol, but that would also apply to the fuel cell, no?
