Double MPG ?

[WRX_JB]

Viewed this at bottom of page when posting last post....Possible? or way to get money from us?

[dragonfly2k3]

a way to steal money. If there was a way to SAFELY double MPG legally the manufacturers would have done it. Great mpg sells cars.

[05Accent]

excatly..

[pearl]

i can triple it, paypal me 10 bucks and ill tell you how.

[twastheglow]

^ What is your paypal address as I'm very interested in your secrets?
*mike*

[PoorMan'sR]

hahaha all those ads that pop up on the internet about increasing your gas mileage, there was one that i found about using a hydrogen generator and feeding it into your intake manifold, i found the way to build the generator cause its like electricity+baking soda+ water= hydrogen. i wasn't about to put it into my car

[DPancoast]

why not? Baking soda = HP sludge... Nothing wrong with that.

[CleanNeon98]

Its BS. I filled up yesterday and got 31.9mpg all city, I really cant ask for more

[PoorMan'sR]

i think we all just have to live with it until we start seeing more hydrogen cars and hydrogen stations, cause thats looking like the fuel of the future, lets just hope they can make some sort of conversion for current cars

[pearl]

Originally Posted by CleanNeon98

Its BS. I filled up yesterday and got 31.9mpg all city, I really cant ask for more

i used to get 33 to 35 in my turbo hatch. theres a new goal.

[CleanNeon98]

Originally Posted by pearl

i used to get 33 to 35 in my turbo hatch. theres a new goal.

No need to make it a contest, im happy with mine. Its rated at 32 city, im surprised I got that close cause those numbers are usually way off

[PoorMan'sR]

Thats cause they have been using the same way to calculate the epa since like the 1960 or 70's when it was first instated, i don't think it was till this year that they changed it

[Renegade_]

Its BS. There is only a certain amount of energy fuel can release upon detonation and saying you get double your MPG means you increase engine efficiency and fuel detonation efficiency past 100%... well past actually.

[CleanNeon98]

there is something called the mpg cap its like a pill you throw into the tank and it supposedly helps a bunch of news stations tested it and such but i dont believe it.

[Scapegoat]

i've got a bridge for sale around the corner you might be interested in

[scutzi128]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x1qk0RsZZmU

[CleanNeon98]

Originally Posted by scutzi128

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x1qk0RsZZmU

Yep thats what I saw. Im already getting the same mpg as it is rated at (with the optimistic ratings) so i dont think it will do me any good anyway

[marshallpre1]

Originally Posted by PoorMan'sR

i think we all just have to live with it until we start seeing more hydrogen cars and hydrogen stations, cause thats looking like the fuel of the future, lets just hope they can make some sort of conversion for current cars

Being in the utility industry, we hear a lot of things regarding the next gen power. RIGHT NOW (as in current technology)

Hydrogen:

1. has been proven to be pretty safe for use in cars. Recent tests show it may actually be much safer than conventional gasoline powered cars.
2. is difficult to produce. Electrolysis is currently being used to extract H from water. Current estimates put it at around $6/kg (1kg of H is equivalent to about 1 gallon of gas- mileage wise). $6 is not that bad, but imagine telling people that in the early 2000s when gas was dirt cheap? People laughed, but now the prices are much closer.
3. Require gobs of electricity. New powerplants would be needed to support all of this electrolysis.
4. take time to produce~ there is a hydrogen station in white plains that producing it at around 12 kg/ day which is, as aforementioned roughly 12 gallons of gas. That is only used for their two or three prototype cars.

I think that if we could use CNG (compressed natural gas), it would help free our dependence on oil. CNG is very very very cheap. Once again, there are vehicles running on CNG, but I'm not 100% sure how safe it is.

[PoorMan'sR]

eh, i'll let a bunch of other people try before i do

[wgknestrick]

Hydrogen is about the worst "alternative" idea I have ever heard. Hydrogen is basically a battery, but with a very poor one at that. Why we aren't going Diesel now and developing future natural gas (about the only combustible resource we have in abundance here in the US besides coal) technology is beyond me. I guess when you are fighting a trillion dollar industry, you are going to be facing a uphill battle.