Ever heard of Brown's Gas?

Question

It is basicaly water, good ol' H20, but somehow it is altered so that it becomes combustible. I'm not sure on the specifics, but It was discovered long ago (years, decades, a century?) I believe by some welder in Japan or Korea or someplace on the other side of the Earth (I'm not good with geography). So obviously it is good for welding; that's what it was made for. You can buy machines that create this Brown's Gas just like you would pick up a new welding torch at Home Depot. It's much bigger than that of course and I'm not sure where you could get one, but the tech. is out there. I was amazed to find out that people can already create a system that uses this gas as an additive to their conventionaly gas powered car. Oh did I mention that the final product (what comes out your tail pipe) is regular water? If you're only using this as an additive well you will still have the regular gas emissions, but why can't this be used solely to fuel cars? (e-mail [e-mail])

Answer 1

Yes I've heard of it, and yes it works to make a gas that will burn, and Yes NASA uses the process, and you can put a silly device on your car that will make brown's gas, but you will NEVER get back as much energy as you put in.

I have the math to show you why, and I will post it if you wish, but I know this is just a con to part people from their money. I'm betting that in every one of your emails to people who ask you about it, is a pitch to sell them something.

Please go away.

Answer 2

Brown's gas is a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen in the same ratio as in water.  In water is in the compound form and which when separated through a process of electrolysis is called brown's gas.  This is good for welding as the torch created is of very high temperature.  However it is very expensive when you want to use it as a source of energy.  If you want hydrogen as a source of energy you must produce it cheaply which with the existing technologies is expensive,  So, Hydrogen finds use only in niche areas such as in space ships, experimental models of cars etc. to generate new technologies which will be useful if and when hydrogen can be produced from solar energy or one of such exotic energy sources which are widespread but diffuse to be of commercial importance.

Answer 3

Appears to be electolyzed water.  It is no solution to the energy crisis.  You must add energy to water to break the hydrogen from the oxygen.  You then burn the hydrogen in the presence of oxygen to get the pure water out the tailpipe.

Problem #1  It takes as much energy to break apart the water as you get from buring it.

Problem #2  You have to use even more energy in step 1 to cover the inefficiencies that occur in any process.

Operating at a net energy loss can still be advantageous if the energy used for breaking apart the water (nearby nuclear power plant) is cheaper per unit energy than the fuel (gasoline) that it replaces.

Answer 4

Are you sure you want to use water as a fuel?

We need water to live.

We use 20,000,000 gals of crude oil a day just how fast would we run out of drinking water doing that?

Answer 5

It's a scam, stay away.