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Entrepreneurs see future in the HHO technology business
BRADENTON, FL — There’s good news from the run-your-car-on-water set at the HHO Games & Exposition: Unlike at the last expo, no one’s hydrogen fuel generator blew its lid on the drive to the event.
That’s a sign of progress for a fledgling industry fighting for acceptance. True believers say it’s not the only one.
“This is going to change the way you drive your car,” said Joe Shea, who organized the expo Saturday, Sunday and today at the Manatee Technical Institute. “It will restore the freedom you lost when gas went up to $4 a gallon.”
At the most basic level, hydrogen fuel enthusiasts talk of using items found under the kitchen sink — a glass jar, distilled water and baking soda — to make a gadget they say improves gas mileage by 30 percent or more.
At the same time, a growing cadre of entrepreneurs is using more sophisticated materials and designs in their hydrogen fuel, or HHO, generators.
“Today, kits are far smaller, far more productive and in some cases less expensive,” said Shea, 62, of Bradenton.
HHO advocates use a process known as electrolysis to run an electric current through water and break apart its molecules.
Hydrogen and oxygen bubble up from the water and are fed into the engine. There, advocates say, they produce a leaner, cleaner and more efficient fuel combustion.
But the leaner fuel mix can fool modern automotive computers into injecting more fuel into the engine.
To get around that, many HHO advocates install electronic devices that allow drivers to adjust the fuel injection themselves. Others reprogram their cars’ computers.
Over the weekend, inventors from all over the country showed off hydrogen production kits in cars, pickup trucks, motorcycles, heavy commercial trucks, a dune buggy, and even a lawn mower.
James Edwards of Lakeland let a friend install an HHO generator on his Century Freightliner semitrailer truck at the expo. Depending on what it’s hauling, the truck gets 6 to 11 miles to the gallon.
“If I can get 2 more miles to the gallon out of it on a 150,000-gallon year, that’s a big difference,” Edwards said.
