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Jimmy




There are more videos from the series, but these are the best proof of concept - the actual test drive.

If you don't feel like watching the whole video, these are the cliff's notes:

The car has no internal engine modifications so conversion is cheaper and easier than many other alternative fuel conversions.

It uses a small amount of hydrogen (5% to 7% by BTU) to kindle any other hydrocarbon in gaseous or liquid form.

You can run it on hydrogen + diesel, hydrogen + waste vegetable oil, hydrogen + any form of alcohol, propane, natural gas, methanol.

If you had a way to capture the gas, you could run it on a small amount of hydrogen + the bad smell from a landfill or compost pile or the exhaust from the gas guzzlers in front of you in traffic. ANY hydrocarbon.

The tailpipe emissions are water and a very small amount of CO2. Like as much CO2 as you exhale in the same amount of time that the vehicle is in operation.

It is made with existing technology and doesn't require anything more exotic that a $700 bulletproof gas cylinder to build.

The prototype in the video is completely tunable from the drivers seat so that it can be tweaked on the fly to demonstrate the capabilities, but the adjustments can be automated making operation complete seamless requiring no more input from the driver than driving a gasoline equivalent.

It gets 50+mpg equivalent (in cost) when running in hydrogen, propane, or CNG only mode. It gets 65+mpg equivalent on hydrogen + another hydrocarbon.

It is cheaper to build than a hydrogen fuel cell, it doesn't require ridiculously pure hydrogen like a fuel cell does, it isn't made of exotic materials that are not practical to mass produce today like a fuel cell does.

You could make the same modifications to a generator engine to provide power for your home to supplement solar or wind power. A generator would actually be easier and cheaper to convert because a generator engine runs at a constant RPM so the throttle assembly required for operation on a car is not necessary.

Best of all - it doesn't HAVE to be a Geo Metro like the car in the video.

I think I figured out what to do with the extra Ford Festiva I have sitting in my driveway.
happymisanthropy
I still wonder why nobody's making water gas from biomass...
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