It's because it's bunk. You think electrolysis of water hasn't been tried before? You can make an electrolyzer of water with an alternating stack of metal and rubber washers from home depot, but the problem is that it takes electricity to split the water and you get out of it what you put into it. It's a net zero. Also, and this is never talked about by forums, you need an electrolyte and the electrolyte gets burnt up and you have to replace it; Even if you swtich out the anode cathodes with say platinum, you'd burn up the platinum (very expensive--think those asian alkaline/acid water separators....) and it would not be cost effective as compared to ICE engines today
They've made a HO powered motorcycle and it does well, but car doesn't have the energy density to move a modern car. It's like the woodgas powered vehicle. This is a great idea, and very renewable (and emissions are limited by double combustion oven designs..you're burning wood AND the woodgas (double combustion)), but the cars are slow because they're capped by energy density
Stan Meyers was silenced not because of his fuel cell but because of the circuitry he invented that boosts the power output considerably. And then there is Ohmasa gas which is HHO not only on steroids but reheat as well.
There are a great deal of over unity engines that did not get very far due to "reasons" here are some of them:
It's because it's bunk. You think electrolysis of water hasn't been tried before? You can make an electrolyzer of water with an alternating stack of metal and rubber washers from home depot, but the problem is that it takes electricity to split the water and you get out of it what you put into it. It's a net zero. Also, and this is never talked about by forums, you need an electrolyte and the electrolyte gets burnt up and you have to replace it; Even if you swtich out the anode cathodes with say platinum, you'd burn up the platinum (very expensive--think those asian alkaline/acid water separators....) and it would not be cost effective as compared to ICE engines today
They've made a HO powered motorcycle and it does well, but car doesn't have the energy density to move a modern car. It's like the woodgas powered vehicle. This is a great idea, and very renewable (and emissions are limited by double combustion oven designs..you're burning wood AND the woodgas (double combustion)), but the cars are slow because they're capped by energy density
Stan Meyers was silenced not because of his fuel cell but because of the circuitry he invented that boosts the power output considerably. And then there is Ohmasa gas which is HHO not only on steroids but reheat as well.
There are a great deal of over unity engines that did not get very far due to "reasons" here are some of them:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220429004028/http://www.cheniere.org/misc/oulist.htm