diesel + hydrogen = 33% increase in fuel efficiency

[RicInOR]

The first will use hydrogen to clean up existing diesel engines, increasing their fuel efficiency by a third and eliminating over half their air pollution, with an average nine-month payback, the company says. That's a potentially enormous market with plenty of existing demand, which HyTech hopes will capitalize its second product, a retrofit that will transform any internal combustion vehicle into a zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) by enabling it to run on pure hydrogen. That will primarily be targeted at large fleets. And that will tee up the third product — the one Johnson's had his eye on from the beginning, the one that could revolutionize and decentralize the energy system — a stationary energy-storage product meant to compete with, and eventually outcompete, big batteries like Tesla's Powerwall.

If you get 6 miles/gal this would take you to 8. Which seems like kind of a big deal.

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[The Heretic]

This is just fumigation (disclaimer: I have not read the whole article yet, but I assume it is), and has been around for a while; propane fumigation does the same thing. It does not make it more efficient in the sense of total fuel consumed, just in the amount of diesel consumed.

 

[flydipper]

Cool, I weld the tanks together for these units!

 

[The Heretic]

It does add power and burns cleaner

 

[Sandaholic]

How explosive will it be?

 

[RicInOR]

I have always been hopeful for hydrogen power, it just hasnt' been readily available.

BMV and other German companies are in Iceland testing - it is a 'closed' environment and with the volcanoes they have unlimited energy to get hydrogen from water.

Everyone else has to find large concentration of hydrogen, and typically that comes from refined oil - ie gasoline.

This method seems to draw power from the diesel engine to separate the oxygen and hydrogen - and to do it in such a way as to not kill power.


I like the thought that they have phases - not one big home run swing.

kkj


Over history there has been plenty of lets inject X to increase power. Had a guy in college who added water to his engine - via a vacuum port. He was convinced it was "better".

The target is, of course, fleets. Some fleets are committed to changing over to propane. Other going to diesel-electric.

hopeful.


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