Some of you may know I am working on HHO systems.
It is true my primary aim is to make a 2 stroke engine run purely on HHO or oxyhydrogen/browns gas.
There is a secondary reason why I want to scale this up, heating.
Engineering was my work until I retired early, sure I also in my early days worked in Grand Prix motorcycle racing as a mechanic, but that was short and sweet, and yes I helped the comedian Reginald D Hunter rise to fame in the comedy scene, but that was after my working day job in engineering, also in my spare time at night.
If we take governments and their insanity to make everyone drive electric cars by 2025 in some countries, add in the fact countries like the UK want to phase out gas heating too, then all you are left with is? Electric.
But what happens when there is no electric?
Over here in Poland where I reside now, there has been news reports of expected power cuts around xmas/January.
I have also seen news stories about people bulk buying generators, petrol and diesel.
So what do you do when there is no electric for days?
Now you might think this will never happen to you, but put in power cuts, any browser you like and see how many results you get.
I will give you a fact from this last week, it is in the UK.
30,000 people are still without power, electric after 9 days.
Now with no power in a cold country like the UK, comes no heat, it also means everything in your fridge and freezer goes bad, and fast.
Now imagine if your only transport was an electric car too??????
With no electric there is no hot water, so no shower also.
Is this not going back to the cage dwelling days? Hunter gatherer and all?
Here is a real report from the UK this week.
"Storm Arwen: Power restored to 97% of homes but 30,000 face sixth day without electricity."
The report I read on a different news site stated "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng was hoping to get power restored by Christmas" that is an entire month with no shower, fridge, lighting etc etc.
I can only imagine how governments would abuse the right to control the power grid if all we had was electricity and electric vehicles, hence my time I am spending making a HHO system for both heating and travel.
It works from 12 volts, so even without power, a simple car battery will do.
If you add a single solar panel to keep the battery topped up, you are then off the grid.
Of course more panels would be needed to go totally independent and self reliant for most of the daily power usage/consumption.
The places in the UK suffering this entire month (possibly) with no electricity are also remote, so any local shop would be facing the same problem and unable to sell supplies.
I will give you any updates I make to the system as soon as I can.
Here is/are some superb sites if you want to start making these units for yourself.
https://maker.pro/custom/tutorial/how-to-make-an-hho-generator
https://practicalsurvivalist.com/diy-dry-cell-hho-generator-torch/
https://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?page_id=927
Tomorrow I will show you how to make a portable single cooking stove out of any old used beer or other can, it is simple and takes only a few minutes, but might save your life one day.
Sunday funday with prizes too.
Have a superb weekend.
Looking forward to that info tomorrow.
Only takes a minute or two. Very easy to do and cheap.
Power failure is one thing ,.. paying the electricity bill the other .
At this moment it is cheaper to run a generator on diesel then to use the power network service .
Electricity is 2 NOK a KW/h ,.. diesel only 0,8 NOK a KW/h
Winter came early in Norway , - 7c , -15c and snow for two weeks now . Where my main energy source is wood ,.. at 1 NOK a KW/h to keep from freezing .
I have plan's to install a battery bank , if i can find some good deal for cheap battery's of some kind that is . It could be powered by the diesel engine in the bus , just let it run some hours a week . This combined with some solar panels could get me of the grid .
But diesel could bet hard to get one day so a HHO powered engine coupled to a generator is a thing to have one day ,.... soon ;-)
Out here i have wood and water as resources in abundance , water in streams to harvest power by placing a water wheel or create HHO from , wood to burn for heat or extract the gasses from to run a engine on .
Thks for the info and update ,.. :-)
When we have had power outages in hot weather sometimes people have died as not being able to stay cool enough. Looking forward to the progress on the HHO generator.
Cheers bud, of course, you guys need fans and ac.
Power cuts are a common occurance where I live now. I've been pondering buying a generator but with petrol prices and shortages it would be useless too so am very interested in ur work and will watch carefully. No way can I build one myself so have admiration for engineers who can do a lot more to save us all than those bloody scientists ;-)
PS having lived on a boat for 5 years I know how to use the 12volt system. Simples.
You could do worse than buying second hand solar panels and hooking them up to some car batteries for when the grid is off, does not cost a fortune neither and only 2 wires in and a inverter at the end with plug sockets on it to give you a safe 240 volt from 12v in.
So you hook up panels to a regulator, regulator feeds the inverter, bingo, plug in and use.
I can do you a full post to explain if you want, took me max 1 hour to hook mine up for my garage and workshop.
I had solar panels on my boat problem is so little sun here, a windmill would be better here
It is not the sun that is the problem, it is the panel, ex industrial panels are what I use as they have a high efficiency rate even in low light, the crud they sell for boats and caravans is not worthy of even hooking up, let alone buying.
Panels running above 36 volts or ideally 72 are the standard minimum.
12 volt panels well they are just shite.
Oh I had good panels, some were nicked off of bus shelters lol, kept my boat well topped up but that was in London. here there is rarely sun and much less daylight hours even.
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hybrid duty cycle is the best of both worlds
HHO all the way!
Superb idea, still working on a design for a 2 stroke engine, then central heating.