This is really promising. What do you all think? I’d especially be interested in the physicists’s view.
Running Water
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Running on Water
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Science is amazing!!!
Emily
Sounds like it has a lot of potential to change the world. I wonder how much it costs to convert from H2O to HHO.
Wow! It seems that this would make the price of water go up. Drinking water would no longer be offered for free, because everyone would try to use water fountains as a source of energy. If they could make it work with sea water, that would probably be the best choice.
I wonder what effects HHO would have on the atmosphere and the human body. HHO seems too good to be true–but I hope it is (and since our God is amazing, it certainly could be an amazing truth)!
Oh my word! Cool!
When I read the title of the post, I thought you meant someone was running on top of water 🙂
This is exciting!
Truly amazing! You know, we place so much hope in federal leaders (e.g. the president) that they will fix our economy or environment, when it’s normal people like this guy that really change the world.
True, James. Just like in the industrial age…real people, just trying to improve a process.
So I did a little investigation into HHO. It is also known as Brown’s gas, and you can learn more about it at http://www.brownsgas.com. Calling the gas HHO is a little misleading in my mind. It is actually a mixture of different forms of oxygen and hydrogen. Oxygen and hydrogen gas are diatomic molecules, that is, each molecule is made up of two oxygen atoms and two hydrogen atoms, respectively (i.e. O2 and H2). However, Brown’s gas also contains monatomic hydrogen and oxygen gas (H and O), as well as some water vapor.
It is more energetically favorable (that is physics lingo) for hydrogen and oxygen to form water than to be in its gaseous state. This means that when hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water, the reaction will be exothermic (energy will be released). If the hydrogen and oxygen have enough kinetic energy they will be less likely to form water. Thus, at the tip of the nozzle in the video, the gas mixture has enough velocity that it will not react to form water and so you do not see a flame at the nozzle. As the gas proceeds it gives up some of its energy to the air molecules, which is why you begin to see a flame. When the stream of gas hits an object at a lower temperature than the gas, the hydrogen and oxygen gases essentially condense onto the object to form water. The energy released in this chemical reaction is what heats up the object so much.
It is difficult for me to believe that using HHO to power a car would be practical, because it would be more efficient to use the electrical energy directly for powering the car, instead of using some to first separate the water into oxygen and hydrogen. In this process you will inevitably lose some of the energy.
Interestingly, Denny Kline is not the first one to run a car on water. According to the aforementioned website, in 1935 the inventor Henry Garret was able to have a car run on just tap water.
Very interesting Seth.You explain very well. I think I understood.
Wow, that’s amazing.