anyone built a "hydrogen booster"??

[grego]

Silly me, but why not put a large solar panel on the roof in order to help with the electical load and thereby increase the efficiency???
Just thinking,, a lot of good comments, pro and con, but if you think the car manufactures aren't in bed with the oil companies to continue to raid our wallets and not make a high MPG vehicle, you are really listening to way too much internet, Al Gore, global warming bull. It is out there but why make it if we are still willing to buy the over price fuel????
I'm getting the popcorn, this could turn ugly and fun. Ding ding!!!!!

 

[41ratrod]

A coworker of mine make a crud one just to see if it would work and he go 5 miles per gallon more in a Honda Accord . Nothing fiance . He drove 46 miles one way to work each day. It only worked when he was driving.
I don't work with him now so I don't know what he has done with it now.

 

[sberry]

He is still working at a regular job?

 

[Jeff95TA]

Silly me, but why not put a large solar panel on the roof in order to help with the electical load and thereby increase the efficiency???

It takes a lot of square footage for solar panels to produce a decent amount of power. And there's the initial cost (unless it's subsidized).

And in relation to alternative fuels, efficiency of a system doesn't tell the whole story either. There are also issues with the amount of energy per unit volume and per unit mass. Natural gas is abundant and relatively cheap, but you need a lot of storage space. Converting a car to natural gas uses up a lot of the trunk. An electric car, which may look efficient in terms of the energy production, has a lot of mass involved with the batteries.

 

[adam728]

It takes a lot of square footage for solar panels to produce a decent amount of power. And there's the initial cost (unless it's subsidized).

And in relation to alternative fuels, efficiency of a system doesn't tell the whole story either. There are also issues with the amount of energy per unit volume and per unit mass. Natural gas is abundant and relatively cheap, but you need a lot of storage space. Converting a car to natural gas uses up a lot of the trunk. An electric car, which may look efficient in terms of the energy production, has a lot of mass involved with the batteries.

Good point, and is another downfall of hydrogen as an automotive fuel. Even in liquid form it has roughly 1/4 the energy of gasoline per gallon. As a gas compressed to 10,000 psi it only holds about 1/8 the energy of gasoline for the same volume.

 

[Lotek]

He is still working at a regular job?

Nah, the oil companies paid him off and he retired to an island in the South Pacific.

Forget about hydrogen, how about Joseph Papp's noble gas engine?

 

[malibutwins]

Why dont you eat some beans and shove a hose up your a%@ that might work?

 

[MR_T]

I think aerodynamic improvements are going to be your best bet after tuneup and weight reduction. Check out this diy honda civic that gets 95 mpg

http://www.gizmag.com/diy-honda-civic-as-aerodynamic-as-an-aptera-gets-95-mpg/10869/