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Originally Posted by Corbet
Facts you should know...
It’s not the HHO that makes the engine run. It’s what the HHO does to the inefficient gasoline concerning combustion efficiency. Gasoline is but only 13% efficient on average when it comes to actual power produced by the combustion process. Adding an additional fuel [Hydrogen] and oxidizer [Oxygen] "aka HHO" causes the inefficient gasoline to burn at a rate of better than 95% efficiency. .
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I am also throwing the BS flag.
Your average engine has a combusion efficiency of better than 99%, not 13%. You can tell this is true because if you measure the tailpipe emissions, unburned or incompletely burned fuel is miniscule. Hydrocarbons in the exhaust flow are in the parts per million range and carbon monoxide (incompletely oxidized HC) is less than 1% (usually 0.1%).
What is true is that the thermodynamic efficiency of the average gas engine only delivers about 20% of the power from combustion to the wheels. The theoretical limit is 37% efficiency.
Internal combustion engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This comes mostly from frictional losses, thermal losses (eg engine heat dissipated by the cooling system) and volumetric ineffeciency. These losses are built in to the fundamental design and they don't change by burning something else.
Results claiming an improvement are not necessarily scientifically valid or statistically significant. My mileage can vary from 10 to 13 MPH by changing nothing other than the way I drive and where.
If it really worked, then all the companies would use it and the government would mandate it.
Don't get ripped off by this BS.