In the hopes of increasing fuel mileage, many people have turned to using water for fuel. I decided to do an experiment to see if I could generate enough gas from the water using only the voltage from a normal car battery. After some research I learned that to really run a car off of water you need to greately increase the voltage (600VDC) to produce enough gas to run the car as well as some modifications to the engine.
As you can see in the picture below, I used a pickle jar (only thing I could find on short notice). I used two stainless steel scouring pads, two aligator clips and to RCA jacks (gold plated, because I just happened to have them around). To keep the electrodes from contacting each other I used a piece of roofing felt (I just happened to have some left over from one of my projects). Although roofing felt was not my first choice I decided to go with it since it had a high electrical resistance and I figured the basic water solution would probably not affect it.
I used enough baking soda to lower the water resistance to about 8K ohms. I tried to add more but the solution was saturated by then.
I did notice that the water solution was heated by the current flowing through the water. I only ran the experiment for about 30 minutes, by that time it was only warm.
I concluded that; although there can be an improvement in gas mileage from using hydrogen (or in this case Brown's gas), this process does not produce enough hydrogen for all (except for maybe a 50cc scooter) gasoline engines. There was not enough gas for me to burn with a lighter. Click Here for a short video of the experiment (no Audio)
