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Old 12-09-2006, 11:31
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And that's what mine will be once I've perfected the workings.

I'm sure you're all thinking I'm taking the p*ss now. Well, I'm not!

It IS possible to convert a petrol engine to run on water and it HAS been done on many occasions. I'll be the first to do it on an S12 though.

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Old 12-09-2006, 11:40
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lol, how and..... errr.... why?
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PMSL you must be pissed Rich

How are you gonna split Hydrogen and Oxygen from the water with just a battery. Don't know if you can remember but prob at school they showed you electrolysis, and it would show tiny bubbles of Hydrogen and Oxygen on either terminals.

You would need a lot of Hydrogen, which means a lot of power to get that Hydrogen.

The engine would always consume far more Hydrogen than what could be produced. Even if it didnt, the engine would have to power the alternator to split the water. You don't get power for free, due to energy conservation so it would never run.

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I remember that!! lol, wow that's going back some!

Not that I have a blind clue what I'm gibbering about but I guess you could always use a "donkey" gen engine to run the electrolysis then run the CA on the results..... would have to be one efficient generator to make it worth doing though! and would mean that you still ran on some pump gas

I can't remember if you can speed things up a bit if you use more voltage or more current couple of step up/down transformers might help I guess lol!

Plus.... could cost a fortune in salt!

EDIT - Ignore the salt bit...... like I said it's been a while ....... although I'm sure it's a little relevent...... somewhere
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i'm sure it would be really fast
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I'm just waiting to hear how Rich is gonna do it...
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And that's what mine will be once I've perfected the workings.

I'm sure you're all thinking I'm taking the p*ss now. Well, I'm not!

It IS possible to convert a petrol engine to run on water and it HAS been done on many occasions. I'll be the first to do it on an S12 though.
hmm very interesting would this still produce over 200bhp like you have now?
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First thing is to get my generator on water. Then a crappy micra (sorry mart, lol) and then the S12.

Time is a pain in the arse tho!
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Old 14-09-2006, 12:03
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You can have my Micra, its for sale £100!

Now driving an N reg Escort. The Micra was just too shite

So, how ya gonna do it then?
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never mind tomorrows world, it will be on crime watch, he needs locking up lol
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