How to create Fuel from Water for your car

Modern internal combustion engines can be converted to run on gas power, and this can be a cheaper and more efficient alternative to regular petrol and diesel fuels. Gas powers the engine in a very similar way to petrol and diesel, so very little modifications need to be made. The only significant difference is that instead of a fuel/air mix being injected into your carburettors/manifold, a high-energy gas like propane will be injected instead. As with conventional fuels, this is compressed, and then combusted, which releases enough energy to turn the engine. It is also possible to run an engine on the gas hydrogen, and this means that water, with its H20 bond is a possible source of fuel.

The easiest and most effective way to extract hydrogen from water in a non-laboratory environment is through electrolysis. You can even make an electrolysis system yourself, using equipment from a regular hardware or DIY store. Basically water is run through a cell containing electrodes (typically made from stainless steel), which are subject to an electrical charge. The hydrogen molecules will naturally gravitate to the negatively charge electrode (the cathode) and oxygen will be attracted to the positively charged electrode (the anode). Because there are two hydrogen molecules to every one oxygen molecule in the chemical compound of water (H20), there will be twice the amount of hydrogen extracted to oxygen.

The extracted molecules then form into HHO (also known as oxyhydrogen), which is a gas made up of two hydrogen and 2 oxygen molecules. This gas is highly volatile and when combusted can produce 241.8 kJ of energy for every mole of H2 burned, however not enough of this can be extracted to run an engine alone. In order for an engine to run using HHO it must also be combined with a small amount of regular petrol or diesel.

So, fuel extracted from water can currently only be used as a supplement to conventional fuels, but it can help to reduce the amount of fuel used, and to increase engine efficiency and performance.