If you find hydrogen explosions, modifications to cars to make them more efficient, and backyard mechanicing to be interesting, read on. Otherwise, you may as well skip this one. But! Who really thinks backyard mechanics exploding things with hydrogen whilst making vehicular modifications boring?

Our little group of backyard masterminds has been working for months on our Hydrogen hho car kits that increase fuel mileage and reduce car emissions. We have tested design after design, and a lot of them worked pretty good but needed a lot of babysitting and tinkering to keep them functioning smoothly. Aron and I worked late into the night in all kids of weather conditions. We went on multiple road trips to test our hho devices. We had some spectacular failures, and found out the hard way to make sure all of our hho generator electrical connections were perfect.

We showed everyone our video of Hydrogen HHO Fun and how explosive the hho gas can be. In fact, we have spent hours and hours ‘researching’ the explosive properties of a hydrogen oxygen mixture. At times we needed ear plugs, and maybe even protective clothing. Our wives just smile (or sometimes frown) and shake their heads as they grab the children and keep them away from the fun. The neighbours probably think I own a shotgun, but I don’t.

Lately we have had the additional hurdle of trying to keep our hho generators from freezing in the incredibly sucky conditions we face in Alberta for, like, three quarters of the year. I am seriously considering moving, so I don’t have to wear 2 pairs of long johns, 2 sweaters and a parka. And that’s just to go to town! I heard it’s nice in places where you don’t freeze down if you stand still too long. In any case, we think we have the freezing problem beat but we need to do a little more testing before we let everyone in on it.

After all of that, we still don’t have an hho kit for sale. I wrote a post at another site discussing where to find hho kits. So everyone that has asked me about buying an hho kit, please look over there for the longer version of this post.

You can also look at this Hydrogen Generator Supply Store. They have a lot of different hho kits, parts for hydrogen generators, plans, valves, sensor kits, and more.

Everybody knows that rednecks love explosions and do it yourself projects that use potentially explosive substances. Another thing rednecks enjoy is cars and trucks that make a lot of noise, or that have been modified. What better way for us Alberta Rednecks to spend our time than combining our hobbies?
I already know what you think you are going to see! Sorry to disappoint you, we didn’t blow up a truck. What we did was build an HHO fuel cell, then hook it to the truck to reduce fuel consumption and lower emissions.
Everyone these days is concerned with the price of fuel. I don’t know what it costs in the US right now, but in Canada it is $1.15 a litre and up. Theoretically, by attaching an HHO hydrogen generator to your vehicle you can make the fuel burn more evenly and more completely. This will increase your miles per gallon.
What we show in this video:
1. our fuel cell submersed in pure water, hooked up to 2 amps DC producing hydrogen and oxygen (one hydrogen to two oxygen, an explosive air fuel mixture)
2. our hydrogen generator in it’s case, producing HHO which is captured in a jar underwater to measure output per minute
3. the HHO fuel cell producing a hydrogen oxygen mixture that is bubbled into soapy water. The bubbles are collected and lit, producing a loud bang. And it is really loud! I mean shake your head earsplitting from only a small amount. The force contained in hydrogen is huge.
4. the hydrogen fuel cell producing, and the hose attached to a Ford half ton. Not the newest vehicle we have available. We are still in the testing stage so expendable motors first!
Warning : if you are going to try this at home, be very careful! One of our first hydrogen generators worked great for several trials. It exploded inside my partner’s house when he was testing it, and he said he was lucky to still have windows or eardrums afterwards. The water level was too low, exposing the wires. A loose connection inside the HHO fuel cell caused a spark, and as I mentioned before the hydrogen generator creates an explosive gas mixture. We have since corrected the design flaw.
If you are going to hook one of these up to your car, make sure you understand the process first. Or, use a vehicle that you don’t need to get you to work!Check out this link if you would like to learn more about HHO hydrogen generators and fuel cells and what other are building.

Aron brought up a good point the other night at the bar. Everyone is worrying about the polar bears, but no one mentions the poor Inuit who lives in an igloo. His house is at risk from global warming. The world’s greenhouse gases could increase the homeless in the north country.

He came up with a solution, though. Styrofoam igloos wouldn’t melt, they’re lightweight so you could move them around, and they could be built in two pieces just like a doublewide house trailer. We all admitted these were valid points, but Crazy eyes mentioned high winds being a danger to such a light house. We considered waking up in the middle of the night with your igloo blown clear off into the distance.

The conversation turned to how Canadians Are Threatening the Planet. Apparently, Canada is single handedly destroying the environment since every one of us has his or her own beer fridge. While Ernie admits to owning several, and I have a couple too, we keep ours outside. Since it’s winter here almost 9 months of the year, we don’t even plug them in, so I don’t really see the problem. What I do think is a real issue here is how the article states that we eat mostly donuts and poutine.

Just before we shut the lights off and kicked everyone out, Aron started in on NASA. He had some good points. I doubt them space shuttles are fuel efficient. They should put catalytic converters on those suckers. And how about some sort of hydrogen generator hho fuel engine, or maybe engines that run on used cooking oil? I thought that all they had to do was stop leaving the shuttle idling in front of the supermarket all the time. And with that, we called it a night.