Alternative fuel options: Water? Let's go Hydrogen..

Are you in need of a fill up, but just can’t stomach the rising cost of gas or the guilt from adding more pollutants in the ozone? What if you could just hook your car up to the kitchen sink whenever you needed gas? Would you drive a car that ran on water?
In this time of rising pollution and fuel costs, science is expanding into territories of research to alleviate the issues facing automobile drivers today. Many have suggested biofuels, even green fuels like electric cars, but science is now looking into water as a source of energy.

Using H2O in cars is in fact founded on very simple fundamental principles of chemistry. But it is a wonder as to why this knowledge has not got the credit that it is due. In this age when fuel price is increasing and the planet is going through global weather change, then the next alternative for fuel is water.

Water to fuel a car? It seems too simplistic to be true, but yes, science is exploring water as a fuel source. With the addition of a hydrogen system to your car’s engine, your car can emit water vapor into the air, rather than harmful pollutants. Research has shown that only 20 percent of gasoline is used for energy, while the other 80 percent is simply wasted through heat, pollution and vibration within the car’s engine. The concept is easy: as a car pulls the water into the engine’s combustion unit, it forces the water molecule to separate into a HHO gas. This gas, also known as hydroxyl, is then pulled into the car carburetor and fuels the engine. The resulting emission is water vapor. This process makes the engine not only cleaner, but more fuel efficient. Some reports from drivers who have the hydrogen system state that their car gets anywhere from 30 percent to over 80 percent increase in mileage. This small change allows drivers to save hundreds of dollars in gasoline or diesel when they pull up to the pump.

Yet it is what water can do for the automobile which needs to be seen. Gasoline is harmful not only to the environment, but to the components of your engine. The resulting byproducts from gasoline combustion remain under the hood, coating valuable and necessary parts and inhibiting from functioning properly. However, with water, the components remain clean, as water molecules collect carbon and keep those carbon molecules from binding to the engine. It removes any current carbon particles and helps keep future carbon particles from adhering. This helps keep the engine functioning at optimal levels.

Other benefits found with water as fuel are a quieter, cooler engine, more torque and better acceleration. Water allows an engine to maintain a cooler temperature, which in turn, helps eliminate harmful greenhouse gases. This assists with global warming on an individual level. Imagine getting behind the wheel of a car and know that the engine is actually assisting the environment, instead of shouldering a solid portion of the responsibility. While it is quite possible to run a car using water, there is still a small need for gasoline and diesel. The technology is not available to fully rule out the use of gasoline and diesel, but the hydrogen system does bring the automotive driver closer to having a more energy, fuel and cost efficient means of driving. The payback of utilizing water as a fuel is that you can use water as a add-on to gasoline. In fact very little water is necessary to boost the car’s fuel competence. This also step-ups the fuel adeptness of the car.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen fuel is not on the market yet in fully operation. But there are a lot of car manufactures that are testing with it. Take BMW for instance, They have build the BMW 7-Series - what is a very luxury business car - and have buildin a hydrogen system. So basicly this system will produce water.

BMW is testing with 100 vehicles at the moment, that they gave to leading figures from the world of culture, politics, business and the media, including Florian Henckel - Oscar-winning film director.

To get a better idea how hydrogen works, we found a nice video about the fuel system of the BMW Hydrogen 7 Series on Youtube.

BMW thinks this all should be able within 20 years from now. But this totally depends on when the world would be ready for it.