Save Gas by switching to Water Cars

Water can be used as a source of fuel, and there are ways of converting your car to take advantage of this cheap and environmentally friendly energy source. When you are looking at any type of conventional fuel, it is the combustion process that releases the energy required to power the engine. In terms of using water as fuel, we need to consider how to convert the vehicle so that it can extract the combustible components in the water in order to use these to run the engine. The combustible components in water are hydrogen and oxygen, and currently there are no proven technologies advanced enough to extract enough of these gases to run the engine on water alone. Therefore when you are converting a regular vehicle over to water fuel, you will need to retain an element of the original design, so that conventional fuels can be combined with the water fuel to power the engine efficiently. Although you would still be using conventional fuel, this would be nominal, meaning that mileage should be increased and overall fuel costs significantly decreased.

One way of modifying your car to run on water fuel is to install an electrolysis system. Electrolysis is a way of extracting hydrogen from water, via a cell, which would be run on a battery. This hydrogen extract is not enough to power the engine alone and would then need to be processed by a generator, which would mix the hydrogen in with regular fuel to create a combined fuel source. This hydrogen supplementing process can be used on both petrol and diesel engines (even if you have a turbo), and a typical system would include the following basic modifications to your vehicle:


* Installation of an electrolysis cell - these have been developed so that they can work from a 12 volt car battery, and are connected via the ignition switch so that they do not continue to run whilst the engine is off and drain the battery.
* Water tank - some installation systems claim to work on just 1 litre of water meant to last hundreds of miles without refilling, and a small water tank is easily fitted into the boot, engine space or chassis.
* Generator - these can be combined with the electrolysis cell, and collect the converted hydrogen and mix it with regular fuel, before being fed into the engine.


Some modification systems for converting cars to water fuel are available to be installed at home without the aid of a mechanic, and are guaranteed not to affect your insurance or engine warrantee. This is because they are not fixed modifications as such, but 'add-ons' that can be easily removed as and when you want to. Systems also guarantee not to adversely affect or damage your engine and in fact some systems claim that they actually improve your engine, by removing unburnt fuel and carbon deposits, and reducing overall vibration and strain on the transmission.