« More on the Solar Tower | Home | A Different Type of Solar Power - Hybrid Solar Lighting »
Update on Denny Klein’s Aquygen and HHO
By MB-BigB | August 6, 2006
You remember this one, right? The water powered/Aquygen car that was on Fox News and CNN a couple of months ago. Well, WAVE3 in Louisville, KY has a small update on Denny Klein and his company, Hydrogen Technology Applicatons, Inc.
While most of the article just talks about the same stuff that you saw on Fox and CNN, there’s a couple of new tidbits that came out. An adapter for your car which would allow it to use Aquygen (HHO) and could increase MPG by about 50% could be on the market within 2 years. Actually, the quote from Denny Klein says “My guess is probably 2 years to go to the next level.” The reporter is assuming that the “next level” is this adapter. Of course a full Aquygen powered car is “a little further down the road.” Mr. Klein also mentions that some big names are taking notice - Daimler Chrysler, Nasa, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin.
Popularity: 100% [?]
Topics: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen power, hybrid and electric cars |
June 9th, 2007 at 9:49 am
I want to hear what you have to say about Tesla Motors and their Electric powered cars. They are planning on coming out with their 2nd and 3rd cars in the next 5 years that are completely electric.
June 10th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
I just posted on an article I spotted in Cleantechblog.com about Tesla Motors. Here’s the article - http://www.cleantechblog.com/2007/06/building-company-0-to-60-in-4-seconds.html I see where they have a second car planned - a family sedan - for 2009. Hopefully their first car (the $92,000 Tesla Roadster) will start produciton later this year. Exciting stuff, if they can keep pushing battery technology forward.
July 14th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
I’ve been reading some heated discussion on other websites that this is a total scam. Any information on that?
July 16th, 2007 at 5:13 am
maybe not a total scam, but probably not the “run 100 mpg just on water” breakthru as claimed. There are lots of other companies exploring the hydrogen on demand concept, which does seem to increase mpg, and the company does have some real products with its HHO welders. I’m thinking that the hype brought on by all the tv coverage blew this way out of proportion. The fact that there’s been virtually no news out of the company since this last update sure isn’t a good sign.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
This is the only real world answer to the oil crisis. They have a working lawn mower engine running 100% on water.(about half way through the video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa1meqFFjjM Soon to be working on automobiles too. If we don’t all get behind this technology we will all be singing this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8mrALiuQSQ
April 6th, 2008 at 12:31 am
I’m excited about the possibility of this technology, allowing dramatic reductions in personal contributions to green house gases. I’ll be even more excited when industry is provided a cost effective alternative to petroleum. The expensive side will be the conversion, obviously. Hopefully this kind of technology will be attractive enough for industry to take the step and reduce their polluting ways.
In addition, we need to remember that it is methane that is one of the most problematic gases that is released in our atmosphere. This gas is the most effective at trapping in heat.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_worst_greenhouse_gases_and_why
Perhaps this goes without saying, but I will say it regardless.
We can’t wait for the better technology to be implemented. We
need to start driving fuel efficient cars again(we were doing it in the 70s). We should also be finding ways of cleaning up the mess that currently exists, since our planet is no longer capable of absorbing effectively the pollutants we’ve been creating. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071022171932.htm
Technologies are being developed to remove CO2 from the atmosphere,
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0407-possible_fix_for_global_warming.htm
We have a lot of possible solutions, we just need to want the change bad enough. So far, it doesn’t seem as though as a planet we are there yet.
Jim
May 1st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Has anyone factored in the expense of electricity required by this process, and the polution of the required power plants, or are we assuming nuclear power generation?
May 5th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
What if the electrolysis was powered with an array of solar cells?
May 5th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Ken - there’s been some studies done on the possible impacts of plug-in hybrids on the power grid. According to one done recently by Oak Ridge National Laboratory - ORNL, alot depends on when the charging gets done. If most people charge their hybrids at night, then ORNL thinks that little if any additional power plants will have to be built. However, if most plug-ins get charged during the day when normal electricity use is much higher, then the impact on the grid will be much higher, and we will need more power plants to handle the load. See http://www.alt-energy.info/archives/498 for the full article.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
First, we are already driving the “small cars” from the 70’s, they are now called full sized cars! A current full sized Impala gets 30 MPG. A 70’s Impala got 12 MPG. The day James Cooper gets all the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, we all DIE!! All the trees and plants DIE!! Mankind would have to be killed off as we exhale CO2. When would the “water/gas” run out. If you are out of water you DIE!! There is NO magic pill out there and there is NO man made Global warming. If you were alive in the 70’s you nutbags were screaming about global cooling ending the world. Global warming is religion and money, nothing else. The earth right now is still making dino oil. Most of it is right here.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:30 am
The Earth will warm and then cool as the ocean’s currents change…so they were right in the 70’s as well. Clearly we can see the vast fortunes made by all those Climate Change nutbags…nothing like those oil company dirt bags and their stance of denial. Hey but don’t take my word for it, I just studied this stuff for the past 4 years.
Also I seem to remember the GEO Metro getting 50 MPG 10 years ago…why are car companies trying to sell me 23 MPG as this “great deal?”
As for the “magic pill” it also exists, its called BIRTH CONTROL. Overpopulation is the only real environmental problem.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I am not sure why this is so hard to believe. In Europe they have been injecting steam into carburators for years and get about 20% increase in fuel economy and power. Water is pumped over or through the exhaust maniford and then the steam is injected into the carburator or fuel injectors. Steam is the closest matter to complete separation of Hydrogen and oxygen. The two gases become separated in the combustion chamber and create additional fuel out of water.
Kinda cool…. Denny Kline is claiming that he can do this with Electrosys. This is not new either but it cost $10 in electricty to make $1.50 in fuel. BUT if the electricty is being generated by the exsisting gas engine as it propels the car, the electricty is relatively free. You do the math…. what difference does the amount of electricity if it has no cost?
by the way… there is a huge difference between HHO and HOH or H2O
August 28th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
There is no magic device or invention that will permit a resulting hydrogen based heat source to provide more BTU’s of energy than it takes to break the oxygen/hydrogen bond. If there were, we would all have home based energy plants and be free of the electrical companies, oil and gas companies, and be driving around in cars that emitted water as their only waste product. Demand hydrogen production from water may have some industrial uses, but the thermodynamics of breaking the oxygen/hydrogen bond will continue to be one that requires more energy input than can be recovered by any known method. If Wall Street believed in HHO as an energy solution there would be almost unlimited dollars available to further the technology. Wall Street remains silent and no serious university research program is working on rendering the laws of thermodynamics null and void.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
By using this technology, my vehicle has gone from getting 28 miles per gallon to getting 46 miles per gallon. I have a 15 watt solar panel that continuously recharges a deep cycle battery that has a reserve capacity of 160 minutes at 25 amps. This is more than enough energy to power my electrolyzer with zero load on my vehicles engine. I’m laughing at the naysayers all the way to the bank!