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“Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light…”
1875 Jules Verne in The Mysterious Island
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The Hydrogen Revolution has taken a big step forward this week as British Columbia, Canada has purchased hydrogen injection from Hydrogen Hybrid Technologies. The units splits water (H2O) then vent the hydrogen and oxygen directly into the air intake of the engine. Adding hydrogen improves the efficiency of combustion, in the engine, "with significant financial and environmental benefits".

Hydrogen energy has been around a long time.

• 1766 hydrogen as a distinct substance was recognized by Henry Cavendish, English chemist and physicist.
• 1801 English scientists, William Nicholson and Sir Anthony Carlisle fundamental discovery of electrolysis
• 1807, Francois Isaac de Rivaz motorized wagon ran off hydrogen stored in a balloon.
• 1821 Rev. W. Cecil presented to Cambridge University a treatise on "Application of Hydrogen Gas to Produce Moving Power in Machinery"
• 1832 Michael Faraday discovered the laws of Electrolysis. He was also able to separate hydrogen from water by using electricity.
• 1862 The Hippomobile at first ran off of hydrogen electrically split off of water on board the hippomobile! The inventor Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir later changed to Town Gas (50% hydrogen). Think about it, a transportation machine that produced it's own hydrogen from water onboard in 1862.
• 1918 The first Hydrogen/Oxygen Generator patented was by Charles Frazier
• 1935 - Henry Garrett patented an electrolytic carburetor. He supposedly made a car run 100% on water.
• 1937 Everyone knows The Hindenburg used hydrogen for lift. But Zeppelin’s engineers found that the 12 to 16 cylinder engines that ran on gasoline when adding between 5 percent and 30 per-cent hydrogen to the main fuel produced substantially higher power output—as much as 325 brake horsepower, in comparison with the normal 269 bhp. It also achieved sub-stantial energy savings. The test-bed findings were confirmed by an 82-hour, 6000-mile cruise over the Mediterranean Sea in 1928, during which a fuel reduction of about 14 percent was achieved.
• 1930-1940's Rudolf Erren & Kurt Weil of Germany used hydrogen to run trucks, buses, submarines(left no bubbles), and internal-combustion engines. The Nazi's used Erren's injected hydrogen system, which had a supercharging effect, on between 1000 and 4000 vehicles by the end of World War II. The Nazis used low draw times on the power grid of electric stations to produce hydrogen.
• 1950 Francis T. Bacon, a British scientist invented the hydrogen fuel cell.
• 1958 NASA started working with hydrogen rocket fuel (They became the worlds largest user of hydrogen)
• 1962 William A. Rhodes is the first inventor known to patent an electrolyzer that produced the simple 'single-ducted' gas we now call Brown's Gas
• 1962 The Henes Mfg., Company "Water-Welder"
• 1966 General Motor's Electrovan used hydrogen fuel cells, a propulsion system using electrical power developed by cryogenically (low temperature) stored hydrogen and oxygen combined with potassium hydroxide. They react with each other and produce water and electricity to run the electric drive motor.
• 1970 An Italian scientist and head of EAECRC, Cesare Marchetti in a lecture at Cornell University argued that Hydrogen, produced from water and heat from a nuclear reactor, could free humanity from dependence on dwindling fossil fuels.
• 1970's Yull Brown used a proprietary method of water electrolysis that yields a nonexplosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gas in the precise atom-to-atom ratio of two volumes of hydrogen to one volume of oxygen. Yull Brown claimed to get 340 liters of gas from water with only 1 kilowatt-hour.
• 1990 The world’s first experimental solar-powered hydrogen-production plant became operational at Solar-Wasserstoff-Bayern, a research and testing facility in southern Germany.
• 1990's- 2000's Most major automakers work on hydrogen fuel cell technologies with independent fuel cell companies United Technologies Corporation and Ballard Power Systems
• 2003 1.2 Billion Hydrogen Fuel Initiative "A simple chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen generates energy, which can be used to power a car producing only water, not exhaust fumes. With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these cars from laboratory to showroom ... Join me in this important innovation to make our air significantly cleaner, and our country much less dependent on foreign sources of energy."
  — President Bush, State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003
• 2005 on: Internet hydrogen from water, oil crises, prices rise, Stan Meyer, George Wiseman, William A. Rhodes, PhD, Todd Knudtson and more

There had been a growing buzz on the internet for the last 5 years especially in 2008 with high gasoline prices about hydrogen from water. Many skeptics think this is another fake conspiracy theory hype like the Perpetual motion machine. Read blogs and forums and hear that the energy used to create hydrogen must be as more than the added energy it produces. But in the real world individuals and now small companies as in the following news article, are trying out and making crude and sophisticated hydrogen generators. They are having with success with gas mileage increasing 10% to 50%. It seems the corner is turning to hydrogen generated from water and not hydrogen stored in fuel cells. This could be the answer as efficiency improves.

Press Release
Hydrogen Hybrid Technologies Inc. receives order for B.C. school buses

PICKERING, ON, June 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Hydrogen Hybrid Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: HYHY) President Ira Lyons is pleased to announce the sale of the first units of the newest line of emissions control and fuel saving devices in North America. The units will be installed on school buses operated by School District # 5 in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. The sale marks the first government sale in western Canada and the purchase of the units will be funded by the provincial government.

"The use of the new model of Hydrogen Fuel Injection (HFI) products on school busses marks a milestone and opens up a huge new market for HHT" said Mr. Lyons. "All across North America, governments have recognized the serious hazard posed by diesel fumes to school children riding buses for up to four hours each day. In the California, alone, the state is spending $25 Million U.S., annually, to install exhaust abatement technologies on school buses. The satisfactory results on the first two school buses in B.C. are expected to lead to the adoption of HFI on every school bus in B.C. and will, almost certainly, have equal success in other provinces and states", added Lyons, "in part because HFI is the only emissions control technology that also reduces fuel use, meaning it is the only product of its kind that pays for itself".

HFI technology is installed as an add-on to diesel and gasoline engines where it significantly reduces a wide variety of emissions (CO, PM, HC, CO2 and NOx) while simultaneously reducing fuel consumption by a guaranteed minimum of 10%. HFI units are being used by over 150 fleets of long-haul transport trucks, ambulances, municipal buses and other heavy equipment, earning HFI the dominant position as the world's most widely-used on-board electrolysers. The technology is based on electrolysis and the units split water, on-board the ambulance, then vent the hydrogen and oxygen directly into the air intake of the engine. Adding hydrogen significantly improves the efficiency of combustion, in the engine, with significant financial and environmental benefits.

HFI is distributed through the world's largest retail distribution network for any hydrogen product, with over 140 Certified Installation Centres all across Canada, the United States and Mexico. Recently, geographical distribution has been expanded and units are installed in Europe, South America and the UK. The product is the first emission control technology to receive "Environmental Technology Verification" (ETV) by the Canadian government and the first hydrogen technology to receive ETV recognition anywhere in the world.

About Hydrogen Hybrid Technologies Inc.: The OEM licensee of the world's most advanced on-board hydrogen generating system, the Hydrogen Fuel Injection system. This technology is patented, or patent-pending, worldwide and has been actively marketed worldwide. The system offers unparalleled benefits for virtually any internal combustion engine, with increased horsepower, decreased emissions and a minimum 10% improvement in fuel economy. The company's products are marketed through a network of certified installation centres in Canada, the U.S. and around the world.

SOURCE: Hydrogen Hybrid Technologies Inc.
Hydrogen Hybrid Technologies Inc.
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http://www.earthscape.org/
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/energy/hydrogen-hybr...