July 29, 2011

Overview of the Closed-Fuel-System

Green energy is clean energy. With rumors of global warming looming around, cleaner, more efficient, and renewable energy sources are being discovered. For example, the hydrogen car has been a recent concept, but NASA has been using hydrogen fuel and hydrogen fuel cells to power their shuttles since 1969, so this is not a new concept.

What the world has realized, but not embraced, is that water is the best resource for fuel that we have. Yes we have solar panels, yes we have wind power, and yes we have a powerful but dangerous source of energy, nuclear. However, not a single one of those resources can nearly compare to the efficiency and effectiveness of hydro fuel. In small amounts it is completely harmless, but powerful enough to give a piston the energy it needs to turn a crankshaft. If you were to perform electrolysis on water, the end product would be a hydrogen/oxygen gas mix called hydroxy. These two gasses are the building blocks for water.

The cool part is that there just so happens to be an explosive quality to these when bonded together, which is where the magic begins. After they are bonded together, the end result is... more water. Actually, it's the same amount of water you started with, which is the third and final step. The water gets collected within the engine and pumped back into the fuel tank for re-use. This is what is called a closed-fuel-system. Like the brake system in your car, there is no place to pop open a cap and add more, because you already have all that you need. There would be no exhaust pipe because there would be no by-products. Half of the modern oil powered engine would be rendered obsolete, and most of the metal parts would have to be replaced with plastic, reducing the cars weight substantially.

Modern Hydro powered cars convert water into hydrogen/oxygen mix and add it into the air intake instead of air, increasing gas mileage and reducing pollution, but there still comes a point when you have to add more fuel (gasoline). What I'm proposing is shocking and drastic... Completely eliminate the need for gas at all, leave it in the environment, we're already half-way there. If a guy in a garage can make this work with a jar and a computer power supply, then there is every reason to adopt it as the next step for humanity and the environment.

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