The Future of the homebuilt Hybrid

There is a growing fad for the "energy conscience" people that have the ingenuity to hook up a homemade hydrogen generator to their car engines creating a hybrid vehicle. They are highly unstable and, unless one is an engineer like myself, on wrong turn of a dial or crossed wire will blow up your engine. There are no instructions, just parts of instructions cheaply printed on page for the electrical diagram of the pulse width modulator, and electrode. Actual connection of the apparatus is like figuring the booby-trap to the entrance of the holy grail in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. If you miss one clue you car could be destroyed, and for most people these days, that is like having your head severed from your body!

The Hydrogen Generator (HHO) runs on water electrolysis. There is no complete design out there I have found that contains all of the necessary parts and pieces required to build the unit properly. I have had to do several upgrades to the unit I purchased including heat sinks, safety gauges, homemade brackets, and emergency cut off switches. All of the precautions have been taken, because we are dealing with a highly explosive substance...water.

The research I have done on the generator has concluded that it may be possible to produce a safe, universal hydrogen generator that could be installed into any vehicle on the road today. By setting in safety triggers and gauges I feel that the HHO will have the potential to be sold to the public with the proper funding and design parameters.

I envision HHO shops being set up throughout the United States at the local truck stops selling and installing HHO's on semi trucks giving them the advantage of saving 25-45% of fuel they use on the long haul. The savings on the truck driver would be close to $20,000 a year for those driving around 200,000 miles a year at their current mileage of 7.8 mile per gallon. Each Truck has the potential to save 6-8,000 gallons of fuel per year. With 10 million trucks on the road it could be like giving everybody in the USA a hybrid vehicle.