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It was a carburetor that ran on water "I heard about in the 70s" when I first heard that story in probably 2006.

• genewitch 4y ago
  there was a guy in southern oregon 10 or 12 years ago that had a bronco or similar he claimed ran on water. The propane tank on the front seemed suspicious, so i asked, and he said that he first had to convert the gasoline engine to run on propane, and showed me the modifications needed to the spark plugs for that. Then he had an hydrolysis controller mounted in the footwell of the passenger seat up front. None of what he showed me made sense, so i wrote it off. I know hydrogen power is a thing, i just know that you can't generate enough power with hydrogen to crack water into hydrogen at the rate needed to sustain that, so having all that crap in the vehicle - assuming it worked at all - seemed dangerous, at the very minimum. Now, i'm sure if you had solar panels - at home[ed.] - and a safe way to compress the hydrogen into small tanks somewhere on the vehicle, you could get a few dozen miles probably fairly safely. And i'm not sure if anyone has patented this yet, but resin/epoxy/plasticize/rubberize the exterior of a carbon fiber tank to store the hydrogen eliminates most of the safety issues, i think.