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A WATER-FUELLED CAR units, I'd have a lot of "problems". I asked to the vehicle's existing fuel gauge. If you by Carl Cella why, demanding an explanation, and was were to start your engine with no modifica told very bluntly, and not in a very nice tions other than the carburettor to accept l am the madman behind the US heavy tone: "Do you have any idea what a device hydrogen fuel, it will run fine but the metal band, "Rampage", but long like this, available to the public, would do exhaust system will corrode in almost no before my musical success I was to the economy?" time, and if you leave the engine turned off mechanically inclined, and the possi This technology is so simple that anyone for an extended period, your stock valves bility of running a car on fuel extracted with over half a brain-and knowledgeable and guides will rust up and seize! from water intrigued mc no end. in auto mechanics-can build one of these Stainless-steel valves don't cost much After reading all the information I could units. I've included comprehensive, no and are as trouble-free as the stainless-steel find on the subjeet of hydrogen generators, bullshit, drafted design layouts, parts lists, exhaust system, so don't be a fool and try to I built my first actual unit in 1983, mount maintenance tips, and a whole lot of engine go cheap because you'll only cause yourself ing it in the trunk of a 1979 Cadillac Coupe modification concepts to makeeonstruc added expense and headaches, and you'll be de Ville. tion, part fabrication and implementation as cursing me for your own stupidity. For the I constructed my system from the best of easy as reasonably possible. cast-iron combustion chambers and valve all the other systems I read about, and then The unit I built works as great as I claim ports, there is a high-temperature ceramic went even further, using the strongest it to, but I offer only the printed infomla eoating called "heanium" that can be pre materials and cleanest layout possible with tion on how to build your own, and I take formed to guard against the same corrosion in reason. All the titanium nuts and bolts no personal responsibility for damage of that affects the valves, guides, exhaust sys were scored from an aircraft salvage sup any kind caused to your vehicle or self. tem and also the intake manifold, as mois ply: they're cheaper, used, and since they'll (See schematics on follow-on pages.) ture down there will also cause corrosion. never wear out that's one way to save some I have only applied my unit ro a carburet Petroleum-based fuels have their own big bucks. Certain head and exhaust sys ted engine; I've never attempted an applica detergent action that protects against corro tem modifications ha ve to be made to tion to a fuel-injected engine, nor do I sion, much like soaking parts in oil pre expect trouble-free extended use. For one, make any such claim that an application of vents corrosion. When using hydrogen as the combustion of hydrogen results in the that type would be easily performed, if pos an internal combustion engine fuel, extra rebonding of the previously-separated sible at aIL Every cubic foot of water con precautions must be taken to make extend hydrogen and oxygen molecules, making tains about 1,376 cubic feet of hydrogen ed operation a reality, and not some drive the engine's exhaust water vapour steam, gas and 680 cubic feet of oxygen. Because a-few-thou sand-mi les-between-fd ed and nothing else-meaning absolutely no there is no pollution produced, all smog engines bullshit. pollution at all! devices may be completely removed, legal Don't use sea water! It contains approxi Most auto-makers use cast-iron exhaust ly, and your car exempted from smog mately three-fourths of a pound of salt in manifolds and stecl valves. The combined checks, as are propane-powered vehicles. every gallon. Salt is a material that will effeets of heat and moisture (moisture not The only maintenance I've encountered coat the electrodes very quickly, just mak being present in the combustion of petrole is, periodically, to wire-brush mineral ing one big mess. The reason for electrode um-based fuels) cause extremely rapid cor dcposits off the reaction chamber elec deposit buildup is that tap water is never rosion of the system. Part of the fix is to trodes and, at longer intervals, to clean out 100 per cent pure: it contains mineral cont install stainless-steel valves and an exhaust the chamber itself-neither of which is aminants that are drawn to the reaction system constructed entirely out of stainless complicated or very time-consuming. I've chamber electrode during the electrically steeL Racing shops sell stainless-steel incorporated so many backUp electrodes so activated molecular separation process, that , valves and stainless-steel 'turbo' mufflers this job won't be required roadside-as it results in the hydrogen contained in water that all work fine. Since hydrogen does not was for me when I first used only one. not being released from the oxygen molecules contain lead as some gasoline does, if knowing about any deposits entirely cover they are bonded to, making a fuel that can you're not using a late-model, no-lead ing the electrodes and thus halting the elec power an internal combustion engine. engine, the heads will have to be reworked trical reaction process. When the ear dies I offer no design for an exhaust steam to include valve seats not needing the lubri out, you just flip another switch until you're condenser, but I do make the suggestion cation lead provides. somewhere able to brush the reactor's elec that one applicable to an automobile can be As for building this device to sell as a trodes clcan in reasonable comfort-and built to increase the cost-free mileage even completed system, that's a dead issue. In not northbound on Highway 5, halfway further between fill-ups. A concept would 1983, I contacted the Department of between Los Angeles and San Francisco, include some form of exhaust-fed radiator Energy to show them that my car actually where my first breakdown was. that could incorporate air ducts, leading worked. I was confronted by two very bel Where the steel gasoline tank used to be, from scoops, to direct highway speed air ligerent 'agents of tyrannical oppression' a plastic water tank is fitted, along with an flow across it. who told me that if I tried to sell pre-built electric float sensor that should be attached I offer the idea, but not the design, OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1996 NEXUS· 51