Water fuel .
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This little engine has been retrofitted with a device that takes the waste heat from an engine and uses it to make hydrogen out of tap water. This thing works and the french are all over it. Makes you wonder if America is really the land of the free. http://jlnlabs.imars.com/bingofuel/pmcjlnen.htm
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Like a stripped down test engine with transparent fuel lines and tanks suspended on a transparent support with power output, rpm and aspiration volume outputs?
No, they can't because this is bullshit.
Come on people, if you wanted to make a convincing video of something that really did work you wouldn't just attach a black box to a lawnmower.
Unless it was a scam, then you'd have to do it that way of course.
google search: steam reforming. wiki's example shows cracking methane to make hydrogen but many heavier hydrocarbons work also.
All scepticism? You mistake either the meaning of the word or human nature. Possibly both.
Scepticism is part of rational enquiry and the scientific method.
I am sceptical about someone who claims to be able to swallow a grand piano whole, but it is not because I am unfamiliar with pianos or swallowing.
A process which has nothing top do with the one claimed for this video.
Reforming is converting a hydrocarbon fuel hydrogen (and carbon compounds). One already contains most of the energy of the other, so takes little energy to change.
The claim is that it makes hydrogen out of water, which takes more energy (than the hydrogen would produce).
Patents are a matter of public record, so I assume you have a link to at least one of them? Or just an unsupported assertion?
Steam reforming is what this video demonstrates and is the primary method for producing most of the world's hydrogen supply.
You are too lazy to do a little research.
I say again, do a google search of steam reforming.
There are thousands of fuel reformer patents but that file contains over 200 patents for the smaller set of systems specifically designed for use with internal combusion engines on board a vehicle. A significant number of those patents you will see are owned by oil and auto companies.
Study the text of many of them and see the test data proving the fuel economy and cleaner air benefits.
Steam reforming doesn't make hydrogen out of water. It makes hydrogen out of hydrocarbon fuels.
To get the hydrogen out of water you usually electrolyse it. It is possible to do it with heat, but the temperatures required will melt steel, then you end up with a flammable gas and oxygen mixture that's 1000 degrees over its flash point, so it explodes immediately.