Well I said I had more to say about HHO and so here it is.

First, HHO is most definately not Ho Ho Ohh. I nearly blew out my ears last weekend! If your going to work with Hydrogen gas then read my post on Detonation Velocity and know that it is a VERY explosive gas. It diffuses quickly but it can pool in your ceiling and form a flamable inverted lake of on the

Well I just finished building my first Water4Gas HHO system. I tested it with pure water first, then tried to add a single teaspoon of baking soda. Once I started to get bubbles they came at a moderately fast rate from the single jar electrolyzer. The gas production was a little more then I expected but it’s not as much as I am hoping to get, also I was running a lot more power then I thought I would need. It’s possible that additional baking soda could yield more gas for less power, however I’m pretty sure that this is not the optimizational pathway that I want to take.

Some of you are probably already thinking to yourselfs, “How does this guy know so much about HHO?” or “Who does he think he is?” or “What is this guy coming from?”, etc…

Well to answer a few of those questions, I don’t know a lot about HHO, or Browns Gas, or Hydroxy gas or whatever it is you want to call it.

The fact is I payed attention in school, even if I didn’t get the best of grades I still payed attention, and I read the books. Maybe I didn’t get all the problems right but I got the concepts and the theory down pat. So now when I hear about something and I want to learn more I do this thing called “Research”. It’s where you go online or to the local library and you look for some real science on the subject. I don’t trust sources that are not verifiable so I search for material that I can trust and corborate from other trusted sources. That means finding multiple sources with the same or similar data and information or test results.

So I only heard about HHO a few weeks before I made my first post here on my blog about it, but a perfect example of what I did to research is when I heard in a YouTube video that the detonation velocity of Hydrogen gas is 40,000 ft/sec. I said to myself, “That really doesn’t sound right at all and I bet that number is wrong!”

Here is the YouTube Video that claims detonation velocity of Hydrogen is 40,000 ft/sec:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUGX0bq9vUs&NR=1

Just because these guys got the detonation velocity of Hydrogen doesn’t mean the rest of what they have covered is incorrect. Rather to the contrary most of what they have said is correct. In fact almost every thing they have said is correct. The only other thing they didn’t cover is the ideal gas law and basics of thermodynamics (Although they briefly touched on it). I’ll give you a hint, if you don’t know what that is you can find some good wiki’s on these subjects. Also plenty of university websites with free information on these subjects. Failing that, you can always look in your kids Chemistry book. Incidently the entire series of videos made by these guys is really good and does cover a lot of good material! Appart from the wrong number of detonation velocity of Hydrogen.

More on detonation velocity. I did some research and found out a whole lot more about detonation velocity. First off, this is actually a measurement used in the field of demolitions. The detonation velocity is used to tell explosives experts how much rock or stone or building foundation a certain volume of explosives will move upon detonation. It’s not a direct measurement but there is a corelation that explosives experts will use when planning and setting up for their demolition event.

So I discovered that the detonation velocity of TNT is about 7000 meters/sec, do that math and that equals about 22,965 ft/sec.

I doubt very much that Hydrogen will burn faster then TNT!

On that note, C4 burns at a rate of 8,340 meters/sec = about 22,965 ft/sec.

Pentane detonation velocity is 1,680 meters/sec = 5,511 ft/sec.

Gasoline typically burns

There have been a lot of new excitement lately about HHO gas also called “Browns Gas” or “Hydroxy Gas” mainly focused around the rising cost of gas. New posts on YouTube and all kinds of activity one web forums and chat rooms. There are some common missunderstandings that I should point out about this before getting any more detailed.

1. HHO Booster is NOT a fuel cell! A fuel cell takes VERY pure Hydrogen and VERY pure oxygen and pushes the Hydrogen through a Proton Membrane Exchange that strips the electrons from the Hydrogen. The electrons flow around a circuit producing electric power and recombine at the other end of the membrane with the Hydrogen and Oxygen producing water and heat as the byproducts of the chemical reaction. An HHO booster does exactly the opposite, it uses electricity to split the Hydrogen and Oxygen in the water molecule into two gasses. The Oxygen bubbles from one terminal suspended in the aquious solution, and the Hydrogen bubbles from the other terminal suspended in the aquious solution. When the bubbles reach the surface they recombine in very week diatomic bonds, typically H2 and O2. At that point the seperate molecules again recombine into further week molecular bonds at random configurations while retaining their gasious state. For instance H4O2, H16O8, H44O22, etc…

2. When HHO burns it does not produce Carbon or Carbon Dioxide as a result. Burning in the traditional sense is simply a chemical reaction that produces heat. For those of you who didn’t pay attention in High School Chemistry class, this is called a exothermic reaction, a reaction that produces heat. This is from the reogranization of electrons and atomic nucli into a more stable configuration with less entrophy. The heat and light and kinetic energy released as a product of that reaction is a chemical process. If carbon or other materials are caught up in the reaction, then it is sufficient that these other compounds will also be reacted with the Oxygen present in the burning process since HHO tends to burn rather hot and fast it does burn or oxydize these other products. There are plenty of other examples of oxidizing and exothermic reactions. The curing of cement is one example of an exothermic reaction since it produces heat. Rusting metal is another example although you don’t typically feel the heat coming off of rusting metal if you ever tried to burn steal wool then you know what I’m talking about. When steal wool burns it is exactly the same reaction as your car rusting, the metal is essentially oxidizing.

3. When HHO burns it does not consume atomic nucli to produce the heat and kinetic energy of the burning process. If it did then the process would be a nuclear reaction and it is NOT! HHO burning is simply your run-of-the-mill CHEMICAL reaction. Nuclear reactions typically produce far more energy and this energy would not be contained in your engine block. Your car engine would simply melt if this was the case, and for the few seconds it might last you’d produce copious amounts of neutrons redily detectable with any geiger counter. Also burning HHO does not produce any cosmic rays in your engine! If your going to talk technical about this stuff then you should learn what it is you are talking about. If you don’t know what it is your talking about then you should do some research and find out! Using terms you don’t understand in your language will only make you look stupid, and everything associated with what it is your doing will then look like a scam to anybody who investigates your results. Furthermore it makes the rest of us look bad who are actually working on getting results in the proper context that does not include your cosmic rays! If you don’t have something meaningful to add to the subject then go read something useful on Wikipedia and educate yourself before you talk or speak or report or blog about

I’ve finally finished the redesign of my site, feel free to let me know what you think of the new look. This was in response to feedback from some of you, so thank you very much for your advice, I believe it has helped me GREATLY!!!

Well if you haven’t noticed yet, there are a major series of updates I’ve made to the site in the last few weeks.

1. I’ve finally finished doing all the major design work for the Personal Web - sub domain here are the links:

Personal Web - Home: http://www.setheden.com/SethEdenPer/index.htm

Rather then listing all of the links I’ll let you browse it for yourself. Each page has custom graphics and buttons so that’s why it’s taken me a full month to get it all finished.

2. If you look carefully you’ll see I’ve added 3 categories of site links to the right blog-roll. This makes it easier to navigate back to any other section of my site from this page.

The other part of the reason that it took me so long to get this all done was because I reformatted my Hard Drive, and I did that because I wanted to install a trial version of Adobe Audition such that I could remaster some tape recordings

Ok finally got my own forums online, I still plan to customize them and hopefully get some custom graphics and stuff in line with everything else I’m doing on this site.

Note: There is a