July 17, 2008

The Great Experiment Fuel from Water

We did it. The test has begun. Our test vehicle is a 98 Durango which is not famous for getting great mileage. The car was driven a total of 424.3 miles over a 10 day period. Some city and some freeway driving, and several different drivers. This took a total of 29.798 gallons of fuel. I filled up the tank again this morning and the mechanics installed my water to fuel device. After the device was installed I realized that I needed distilled water for this device. I started looking and went to several convenience stores and one grocery store in what turned out to be a vain attempt to purchase the distilled water. On the way home this evening I finally got lucky by stopping into a drug store. By this time I had driven another 19.3 miles. I topped off the tank and found that I had used another 1.911 gallons of gas or 11.98 MPG, only about 2 miles of this was freeway driving, the rest was city streets.

When I bought the water I stopped in the parking lot and filled up the device and added the necessary baking soda. The device has a threaded plug for the filler opening. I am not sure why, but it seems like the threads were stripped. The plug just didn't want to go back in, but I got it in far enough to seal the opening. There is another opening in the top that allows you to adjust the amount of air being drawn through this device. After starting the car, I looked at it and could see bubbles forming and coming up, it almost looked like the water was boiling. I adjusted the valve, but it seemed like the draw was trying to collapse the top, so I opened it up a little further. I haven't noticed any difference in the performance yet, but I have only driven it a few miles so far.If the literature is correct, I should achieve a 25% increase in MPG or about 17.8 MPG.

My thinking has gotten involved in this though. There is a tube out of the device that connects to the vacuum port on the manifold. This is how the Brown's Gas ( a combination of Hydrogen and Oxygen gets into the combustion chambers. Acthally this is a controlled vacuum leak, you are getting more air into the fuel mixture than is called for, so the engine is running a little leanre, therfore better gas mileage. The other question I have is when you add this additional fuel to the mixture, how does the computer in the car know this and lean the gasoline mixture?

I will be impressed if this does give the mpg boost as claimed. More next week.

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