Water Fuel Conversion Kits

[evansm76]

Is there something to some of these water fuel conversion kits or are these nothing but scams? Do real reviews exist that indicate whether they can really affect gas mileage?

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Regards,
Mark
Corona, CA
#1681 Typ-1h

[evolutionmovement]

Yeah, that's why I always try to pick the gas stations like the ones in Detroit that put the garden hoses into the tanks at night to water the gas down. Car ran great! On maybe 2 cylinders after almost a half hour of trying to start it. Gas mileage is amazing when the engine doesn't run.

The only water cars that work are steam powered or high-powered turbo cars that might use water injection to cool the intake charge.

Bruce Crower is working on a kind of water/fuel hybrid engine that's basically a 6-cycle internal combustion engine where the first four cycles are the same as the traditional Otto Cycle engine. The 2 new cycles then take place starting with the piston at TDC with water being injected into the hot cylinder, where it instantly turns to steam, the expansion of which being used to push the piston down again. As the piston comes back up, the steam is exhausted through its own exhaust valve and the Otto cycle begins again. A side benefit is that no cooling system is necessary. I don't know if the water is condensed and recycled or dumped to atmosphere after use.

[KarenRei]

Yeah, you could recover a bit of waste heat energy that way. Too bad the Carnot cycle is a hard fast law on the max energy you can extract from a heat engine, and the lower your difference in temperatures (as with most waste heat), the less energy you can extract from it.

No, water is not a fuel, and will never be, barring fusion.