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I don't know for sure at this point in time, but if mixing in some of this
Brown's gas with a hydro-carbon based fuel gives me an 10% increase in gas
mileage and an overall decrease in fuel weight then I am interested in
testing it.

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Doug in Japan

Hello Doug,

As many have noticed, these mpg wonders are heavily marketed on google
ads. Apparently, this grey "motor-up" area is too delicious for shopping
tv folks to neglect :) Finally, when all-american heavyweights chuck
norris and bobby from dallas are recommending it on tv, we should be all
convinced that this technology saves us from extinction :)

But then:

Hydrogen fuel enhancement, ie. electrolysis produced H used as additive
(~5%) on gasoline and diesel engines to assist/facilitate lean/very lean
burn, has been a subject to some research, and seems to be working. 10%
SFC reduction might be possible if the engine is modified and tuned to
exploit the wider lean burn region.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_Fuel_Injection

Also, Hydrogen could be usable to suppress the knock onset somewhat.
H/Air mixture burns 5 times as fast as fuel/air mixture, thus speeding
up the whole combustion event - so there's less time for yet-burned
mixture ahead the flame front to "think about behaving badly". This is a
"might", since free hydrogen is a known factor on knock onset. If H can
be combined to mostly H2 before injection, it might help.

If H2-assist could be tested together with 16X -type direct chamber
injection, we might be able to reach low .40's SFC on rotaries. Might,
could, perhaps :)
This is all referring to H2 and O2 injected separately. "Brown gas" or
HHO - i don't know enough about it to comment any way.

Regarding those electrolysis bottles sold as "mileage multipliers": yes,
they might work too, but how well is most likely heavily dependent on
engine parameters.

Cheers,

Petri

btw: Mistral is working on JET-A SCORE:
http://www.eureka.be/showcasePDF?prjId=2743
maybe old news for some, pdf is dated on summer -07

btw2:
Regarding the water and it's... extraordinary behaviour on some
particular conditions - some of you might already know the substantial
work done by Viktor Schauberger of Austria between 1920-50. For those
interested, there's a book by Callum Coats - "Living energies", that
covers his work.
But this subject is so controversial that it's just polite if i don't
get into this further. I think Paul has quite clearly indicated that "no
perpetual motion or saucers, please" :)

btw3: (getting excessive :)
Everybody _should_ see "The World's Fastest Indian". A truly wonderful
movie!  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412080/

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