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Run Your Car On Water? Ridiculous!! Heres Why..

Run Your Car On Water? We know it sounds great and there is a lot of ballyhoo about this circulating on the internet. It’s actually sort of laughable. Some representations are halftruths and marketing puffery. Other instances are distortions and out and out lies. Before spending your hard earned money read the truth below and get the real story. Part of your mind is telling you “It can’t possibly work!”. You’re right and we’ll tell you why.

Keep in mind there are some very real benefits to be harvested in this area. We’ll explain those too at our site no need duplicating the info. here. Just click on our link at the end of the article.

Now here’s the fully factual answer to the question “Can You Run Your Car On Water?”.

No no no. Never. It’s marketing fantasy. Hype. Overblown obfuscation. Water cannot be used as an internal combustion engine fuel. Ever. Period. Why? Basic chemistry. Water is the byproduct of a hydrogen and oxygen exothermic reaction a chemical reaction that releases energy as heat. Once the chemical reaction has completed between these two elements all the energy has been consumed. The left over byproduct water is just an “ash” chemically speaking. It’s an ash in the same way paper becomes an ash after it’s heat energy has been released by burning it. Different substances same process. Combustion. Subsequent attempts to reignite either ash byproducts will prove futile for the same reason. Their exothermic energy has already been depleted by combustion.

Your car engine is designed to use as fuel substances that will produce an exothermic reaction again combustion or “burning” above a specific energy level. It harnesses some of the heat energy from combustion to do it’s work. No heat energy or not enough of it no work. See the reference for “Internal Combustion Engine” at our website below or click this link > An excellent animated engine example.

To clearly understand the mechanics of the situation let’s look more closely at water combustion and hydrogen. Simply stated water is nothing more than oxidized hydrogen two hydrogen atoms that have attached to an oxygen atom = H2O. This is what’s left after hydrogen “burns” burning = very rapid oxidation = combustion. You can get the oxidized hydrogen in water to burn energetically exothermically again if and only if you “unoxidize” it first. One way to easily do this is through electrolysis more on this below. Once it’s bonds to oxygen are broken the hydrogen in water is free to interact and combine exothermically with other elements again. Short of that in it’s oxidized state the exact definition of water hydrogen is trapped and rendered useless as a fuel to your engine. So anyone who tells you that you can burn water for engine fuel or “Run Your Car On Water” is:

A. Generating market hype water as fuel sounds exciting because water falls from the sky and is virtually free. Wouldn’t it be wonderful? It’s just marketing fantasy to tease and attract people preparing them for a sales pitch not that there’s anything wrong with a sales pitch per se if it’s honest.

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B All wet excuse the pun and blowing smoke or steam. More precisely snake oil. They haven’t done their homework and simply don’t know any better.

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C Purposely Misrepresenting The Facts trying to use semantics to confuse the issue and hide the truth. Water won’t burn exothermically. It’s not combustible. How are they really trying to misdirect your attention with phrases like “Run Your Car On Water”?! If an ad is not willing to say what it means then there is no way for it to mean what it says. Beware.

Is there a way water can be used for vehicle propulsion?

Yes water does have a beneficial though indirect role in translating fuel into propulsive energy for your car. However it’s NOT a source of fuel energy. Here’s how it works. You can build and install a device that uses your car’s electrical system to extract oxygen and hydrogen from water. The process is known as electrolysis mentioned earlier. This is the process that “unoxidizes” water’s hydrogen freeing it for combustion. However separating oxygen from hydrogen through electrolysis requires electrical energy and energy is not free. For your car electrolysis is powered by your electrical system. More precisely the electrolysis process actually translates and stores your car’s electrical energy as hydrogen and oxygen gas. The gases will freely mix as they form unless separated resulting in what’s commonly referred to as HHO see our site for more details on HHO. When HHO is delivered to and mixed with your engine’s normal gasoline/air fuel mixture the result is a hybrid fuel HHO gas gasoline/air. The HHO/gasoline hybrid fuel can burn much more efficiently than your normal gasoline/air fuel mixture alone. More specifically after electrolysis the stored electrical energy now carried by the HHO gas can be mixed and added to the engine’s gasoline/air fuel mixture in a compatible way normally electrical energy needs wires gas can be moved physically. What was electrical energy water has been converted into a gas mixture waiting to deliver energy to your engine through combustion. It’s important to note that though HHO releases the stored energy gained from electrolysis through combustion the direct mechanical effects of that combustion on the piston are NOT HHO’s main benefit. It’s HHO’s secondary effect on gasoline combustion efficiency that is much more important see our site.

This means that the role of water a low energy compound is to provide a stable energy conversion/storage medium or pathway whereby through electrolysis electrical energy can be transformed and stored into a hydrogen/oxygen gas mixture HHO gas. It’s delivered to your engine to extract as combustion energy. Keep in mind that energy originated in your gas tank and has simply used water and your electrical system to change form. In other words your car infuses water with energy which in turn takes the form of HHO gas. The water itself has NO energy before this process. Therefore it is not a source of fuel energy because it must have the electrical energy from electrolysis to become HHO. No electrical energy from your car no electrolysis. No electrolysis no HHO. This means that ALL the energy is coming from your gasoline tank. Water contains nothing. It’s just an energy pipe or conduit. Consider the energy path starting with your gas tank. The energy changed form from liquid chemical gasoline to rotary mechanical your engine to electrical your alternator and battery to gaseous chemical stored as HHO from electrolysis back to rotary mechanical through HHO combustion engine again. No new energy has been derived from water or HHO and it’s easy to prove. Take an HHO ondemand equipped vehicle. Start it. While it’s running interrupt the flow of gasoline to the engine. Wait 10 minutes to let the engine consume the residual gasoline in the line. One of two things will happen:

1 The engine continues to run after 10 minutes proving water is a new source of free fuel energy and you CAN “Run Your Car On Water”. The economic world as we know it has just ended. In it’s place is a new world of free energy.

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2 The engine stops proving that water is not a new source of free fuel energy even after being processed into HHO as many ads imply . It proves that gasoline is the energy source and you CANNOT “Run Your Car On Water”. The world goes on as before. The only difference is you’re more aware of another way that marketers are trying to put their hand in your pocket.

For any practical vehicle application HHO is a fuel combustion enhancer not a fuel energy source. The distinction is important to understand because it is the foundation of HHO’s practical benefits as well as the source of it’s limitations. For a number of reasons your cars’s electrical system cannot produce enough HHO to power your engine by itself. The hype of “Run Your Car On Water” or “Water for gas” or “Burn Water for fuel” or other puffery cannot be supported in terms of HHO anymore than water. HHO brings gains because it forces your engine to utilize more of the gasoline energy that’s already in the engine’s cylinders. It isn’t new energy. HHO just prevents what’s there from being thrown away and wasted. If you understand this enhancement limitation and premise then you’ll be pleased with how HHO can significantly improve your engine’s efficiency your car’s mileage per gallon and ease the pressure on your finances.

By the way HHO is not just water in a gaseous form. If that were true taking a hot bath or shower with a lit scented candle or cigarette would be disastrous. The reason you can safely do so is because the gaseous form of water is steam. You can’t ignite steam. Light a candle in a room full of HHO…well happy landings. Just make sure your life insurance is paid.

Marketeers and hucksters count on semantic games to confuse you generate hype and hide the facts. We all run our cars on gasoline or we run our cars on diesel fuel. This means we literally fill up our tanks with these fuels and when mixed with air they provide our engines with 100 of the energy needed to propel our vehicles to their destinations. Is there any condition under which you can fill your tank with water and have it provide your engine with 100 of the energy needed to propel your vehicle to it’s destination? Can you “Run Your Car On Water”? Clearly this is not even remotely possible see reasons stated above. Just the same you’ll see this ridiculous claim packaged in different forms around the net burn water for gas or water = free energy or run your car on water etc… For all cases where water is represented or implied as being a combustible source of energy it’s at best a matter of not knowing the facts. At worst it’s mean spirited misrepresentation and fraud. Don’t be taken in by the marketing word games.

1 Water is not combustible because it’s hydrogen is trapped. If someone wants to convince you otherwise make them prove it. Unless they can show water on fire then water is not a source of fuel energy that can “Run Your Car….” or anyone else’s anywhere. All the claims and implications of using water as a free and plentiful energy source just…..plain……EVAPORATE! sorry had to! Don’t be fooled.

2 Likewise HHO has great benefits and is quite beneficial as a fuel additive but not to the extent of pulling up to the garden hose instead of a gas station for a fillup. Not quite yet.

The information you’ve just read has provided a basic overview of the water to HHO technology without the hype. At our site link at bottom of the page we start at the beginning and look a little more deeply into the technology and answer questions such as “What exactly does HHO do?” How does it enhance fuel combustion?” “Will HHO work In My Car?”. We also include reviews for doityourself HHO conversion plans that guide you through the process of building and installing a hydrogen ondemand system. Though some of the concepts covered here are covered there again we feel the additional info. can be very useful the entire article takes about 10 minutes to read. However at this point if you are only searching for HHO conversion plans you may wish to skip the additional info. and go directly to the conversion plan reviews provided at our site. From an extensive examination of available plans and customers feedback we rank and recommend the best plans. For your convenience we’ve provided this link to go directly to the plan reviews > HHO Conversion Plans Review.

Most importantly we examine what you can reasonably expect from the conversion technology and how to get the most benefit for your efforts. We promise at no time will we insult your intelligence by representing that you can use water as an engine fuel.

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Thanks and happy motoring.

About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;G. Suser
Site Owner for www.TheDiscerningDollar.com where we gather and share smart money saving ideas.

Rebuilt Industrial Transmission Buyers Guide — 3 Key Things To Look For When Purchasing

Purchasing industrial transmissions for offroad and marine purposes can be a costly exercise for many companies. An option worthy of consideration is whether to buy a brand new industrial transmission or a rebuilt industrial transmission.

Buying a rebuilt industrial transmission is a viable way of acquiring quality industrial transmissions for less than the cost of new industrial transmissions. To ensure that your rebuilt transmission will perform just as well as a new one and to maximum value for money there are three key things to look for in a company when purchasing.

1. Custom vs Assembly Line Rebuilding Processes

Custom built the very phrase denounces mass production and gives the impression of higher quality. But is a custom rebuilt process going to produce a better quality rebuilt industrial transmission than an assembly line process? The short answer not surprisingly is yes a custom rebuilt transmission will generally have a longer lifespan.

One of the key reasons that custom rebuilding increases an industrial transmissions’ life span is because each transmission is rebuilt individually. This means that the rebuilding process can be adjusted to the individual requirements of each transmission. This in turn reduces the occurrence of flaws that would otherwise be missed by assembly line processes.

2. Quality Control

Quality control is an absolutely vital component of any remanufacturing process. The remanufacturing company that you purchase your transmission from should have a clearly stated commitment to quality control.

A good rebuilt industrial transmission will have been broken down to its components. Each individual component should then be cleaned using industrialgrade methods to remove problemcausing debris. The remanufacture specialists should then go through each component with a fine tooth comb to ensure that no debris is left in the parts. The rebuilding of the industrial transmissions should only commence after all components have passed quality control.

3. Testing Through A Work Cycle

Test test then test again. This should be the motto of all good remanufacturing companies. When selecting a rebuilt transmission investigate the testing processes that it’s subjected to in its remanufacturing. A good industrial transmissions remanufacture will have put in place rigorous testing methods using a Dynamometer. A Dynamometer is a device that places load on a mechanical device to measure its force output as an indicator of performance.

Specific to the remanufacturing industry the Dynamometer should take the rebuilt transmission through what is called an invehicle work cycle. This work cycle should simulate the conditions under which the rebuilt transmission will work in the real world and test its performance.

In addition to testing every rebuilt industrial transmission should have a failure analysis report available for inspection before purchasing. The failure analysis report should be prepared by a qualified remanufacture engineer and contain information on how to prevent components from failing prematurely. Reading through the failure analysis report and following its recommendations will help you get the maximum performance from your rebuilt industrial transmission and also help to extending the lifespan of the transmission.

About the writer:  Christine O’Kelly is an expert on industrial transmissions and an author for Dealers Transmission Exchange a leading remanufacture of rebuilt industrial transmissions.

Preparing For Your Teen Getting A Drivers License

For most teenagers getting their drivers license is akin to a rite of passage. Most of the time they dream of getting their own set of wheels complete with customized car floor mats seat covers and all. Indeed what better way of enjoying perhaps the most exciting part of their lives than being enthroned in comfortable car seat covers cruising through scenic spots with friends and relatives? For teenagers getting the most of life means having the means to go about freely; a car with Hawaiian car seat covers parked on an idyllic beach is a perfect picture of this.

Having mobility and the opportunity to assert your independence and individuality made possible by the countless ways of customizing myriad aspects of the vehicle like its car floor mats and car seat covers is something teenagers crave for.

Certainly teenagers have to start driving at some point and most of the time it is better to start them young. Teenagers and young adults must be taught the principles of responsible driving before they get their drivers license. Hawaiian seat covers in a sleek sports car mean nothing if the owner of the car drives willynilly. It is important to display responsibility and competence when driving a car.

It is advised to enroll in a driving class which will involve many hours of training and learning behind the wheel. Skills such as mental alertness eyehand coordination and the likes are oftentimes further honed in classes that focus on the basics of behind the wheel. Driving schools offer programs that prepare and equip teenagers and adults with basic and advanced driving skills. A typical driving school offers the modules that deal with driving responsibilities; effects of natural forces on vehicles; the meaning of signals signs and road markings; vehicle systems; accidents and their causes and how to prevent them; and the effects of drugs and alcohol. The best part of it perhaps is handson training where students can take their turn behind the wheel and demonstrate all that the classroom has taught them.

While preparing for a drivers assessment test it is wise that a teenager or a young adult have a good understanding of the following:

Wearing a seatbelt at all times
Knowledge on the meanings of different road signs
Respect for pedestrians
An emergency plan should accidents occur while driving such as giving First Aid or calling the proper authorities
Maintaining a positive attitude while driving and not succumbing to road rage

When these things are already ingrained in the mind of a young driver passing the licensing tests should be a breeze and all those thoughts of driving in a car on ones own should shortly become a reality. It is important to note that requirements for a drivers license vary from state to state. Some may have strict regulations while others may have more lenient policies.

Needless to say there are still some things to keep in mind before getting a drivers license. The following items are all in the needtodo list to get a drivers license:

Prepare all the required identifications IDs birth certificates etc
Have necessary preassessment tests certifications on hand vision examinations medical reports etc
Study the handbook provided by the licensing authorities
Check the breaks lights and oil etc. of the vehicle
Have the vehicle and its interiors e.g. car floor mats dashboard floor and car seat covers cleaned

A teenager must understand that an exam for a drivers license or permit is twopart written and field. Its important to be prepared for both. A reputable driving school should help ease the anxiety a young teen may feel while taking either one of the exams. You can rest assured that you are well prepared for any aspect of the written or field test.

Once the license is obtained taking up an onroad safety class is also very helpful. Teens and young drivers will be taught how to handle difficult situations like parking on a hill checking blind spots handling road rage avoiding hydroplaning etc. Sadly in some states and countries driving tests held by government authorities are not adequate to equip new drivers with the necessary skills needed to be a safe driver.

A new driver is also encouraged to learn basic car maintenance skills like changing a tire changing air filters changing spark plugs changing oil and other easy tasks that could save money versus taking the car into a repair shop. Perhaps in due time such savings would allow one to afford those latest car seat covers to personalize his car with.

About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;About the Author:
Dan Bodrero has owned and operated his own store manufacturing and selling seatcovers for nearly every make and model of car trucks. Dan takes pride in the quality of his workmanship and stands by every product that leaves his store. Each custom made seat cover is hand crafted from quality materials and is guaranteed to protect your automobile and fit securely and snugly.