Water for gas

[xveganxcowboyx]

Pretty sure engines are 30-40% efficient depending on the design. Of course the point is still valid either way. Now if you had some wicked wind generators at home..........

[NOT THE BLUE LAMPSHADE]

Originally Posted by xveganxcowboyx

Pretty sure engines are 30-40% efficient depending on the design. Of course the point is still valid either way. Now if you had some wicked wind generators at home..........

Actually engines are about 75%-85% effiecient, N/A, and up to 120% or more efficient with forced induction.

Originally Posted by Matt D.

I have one of those for sale as well.

Does it just get faster and faster every day?!

Don't you also have to have different compression to run off of hydrogen? I'd think you'd have to change your entire setup of your engine (intake, timing, spark, internals? etc) to make it actually work well. I know that BMW is running a bunch of 7 series off of pure hydrogen combustion on the V12 models, but they are only making barely half the HP that the gas combustion models run. So I guess when it says you'll "boost power" and shit, that's a fucking lie.

[merkzu]

Originally Posted by NOT THE BLUE LAMPSHADE

Actually engines are about 75%-85% effiecient, N/A, and up to 120% or more efficient with forced induction.

I think we have different definitions of efficiency... 100% efficient = can extract all available energy from a source with 0 loss.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Originally Posted by NOT THE BLUE LAMPSHADE

Actually engines are about 75%-85% effiecient, N/A, and up to 120% or more efficient with forced induction.

I think you are thinking of volumetic efficiency, not gas/fuel/energy efficiency.

[NOT THE BLUE LAMPSHADE]

Originally Posted by ecoli

I think you are thinking of volumetic efficiency, not gas/fuel/energy efficiency.

DURR!!!

Yep, I guess I was thinking that. And he was right, engines are only about 30-40% efficient, as with energy, since they only use about that much of the total heat produced from combustion.

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