I use hydrogen.


THINK HYDROGEN
BY
Hank Kroll
513 Peninsula
Kenai, Alaska 99611
As a kid growing up in the small town of Seldovia, Alaska we knew the
name of every boat in the harbor, when it was built, who the owner was
and how many pounds of king crab it brought into town last year, the
year before and the year before that. We knew when every boat was
built, by whom, its cruising speed, what type of engine it had plus
the engine it replaced. We knew the shaft diameter, the reduction gear
ration, the propeller pitch, the diameter and could calculate hull
speed without using pencil and paper.
Three universities, three million pounds of king crab, tanners,
several thousand tons of herring, two million pounds of salmon, four
fishing boats, four airplanes, one ex-wife, three houses, ten
grandsons, twelve books and a publishing company later I find myself
fishing salmon on my old set net sites in Tuxedni Bay with my wife. I
forgot how strenuous this fishery is. Superwoman almost worked me to
death. I lost twenty pounds and my arms doubled in size to their girth
of twenty years ago. I now resemble Arnold Swartzanegro who recently
turned 61—only I have a few years on him.
I had a hunch the fuel prices would be outrageous this year so I
decided to try manufacturing and burning as much hydrogen in my boat
as possible. Given the measly output of my 65-amp alternator I am
limited to using about 25 amps so I installed an extra bank of
batteries on deck. The optimum amount of hydrogen you can burn in a
diesel engine without blowing it up amounts to about a 40 to 45% fuel
saving. If you go over that and you might have an expensive repair
bill. You don’t have to be a genius to do this but it helps. Any kind
of volatile gas you feed into your intake will tend to make the engine
run a little faster but when this happens the governor pulls back on
the rack automatically decreasing the amount of diesel fuel going in.
HO with the extra kick of oxygen and hydrogen will help make your
diesel burn cleaner with more complete combustion of the fuel.
By supplementing your diesel with hydrogen you also increase the
range of your boat. I only have a 365 gallon tank capacity on the
Brisk. Now that I am supplementing with hydrogen I don’t have to worry
about running out of fuel if I want to take a trip to Kodiak.
Installation of the electric unit was easy on my boat because the
engine air intake is outside the cabin. I had to bring outside air
into the engine two decades ago when I installed the Cummings because
the bearing in the turbo kept burning out. The temperature in the
engine room was reaching over 100 degrees in the summer and when you
shut down the oil in the turbo would cooks out of the bearings. When
I’d start up again they would squeal until the oil reached them.
Outside air is colder and denser which means you are sucking in more
oxygen which gives you a slightly better fuel economy. Not only does
outside air increase fuel economy it prolongs the life of your turbo.
A four-inch PVC pipe intake pipe solved the problem. I ran it up
behind the cabin and put a bucket over the air filter to keep the rain
and spray out. This made it easy to get the hydrogen into the engine
by simply duck taping the end of the small hose under the air intake
and drilling a few small holes in the bottom of the filter. Hydrogen
is the lightest gas known so it goes strain up anyway.
I estimate that my electric generator produces enough hydrogen to
save 20% of my fuel costs. I am only running 25 amps through it but
the unit can take up to 50 amps. It uses less than a gallon of
distilled water and one level teaspoon of baking soda for the
electrolyte. Being a guy I threw the directions away first thing and
dumped in a half-cup of baking soda. When I turned in ton it pegged
the amp meter so I had to drain the water out of it three times to get
the amps down to a reasonable level. To learn more go to www.thermo1.com
If you want to see it in action go on You Tube and search “Turbomax”.
The five tube cluster cost $485 and arrived two days after I ordered
it. The Goldenrod fuel filter I had in my junk pile. All the other
pipe fittings and hoses I bought at Home Depot for a cost of $125. The
amp meters and switches set me back about another $100 but the whole
setup paid for itself in four trips across Cook Inlet.
The HO generator consists of five stainless steel tubes eight inches
long with 3/8-inch titanium rods in the center insulated from the
outer tubes with nylon nuts. Since then I built several myself for
other equipment that I own.

BEER CAN HYDROGEN GENERATOR FOR YOUR CAR, BOAT OR TRUCK
The other hydrogen generator I installed is extremely low maintenance
and oxidizes beer cans. It consists of a 30-gallon plastic barrel with
an air tight hatch bolted to the top. A five gallon bucket will work
in a car or pickup and when the troopers pull you over you have an
excuse for having all the empty cans in the back seat.
You fill your container with any fresh water and lye or caustic soda.
I used 8 pounds of lye in my 30 gallon barrel which is a weak mixture
to make the process last longer. You flatten out about 70 or 80 beer
or pop cans and dump them in. If you don’t flatten them out they
float. Basically, it oxidizes the aluminum taking the oxygen out of
the water and releasing the hydrogen in the process. The waste
aluminum is turned into aluminum oxide. If you forgot what that is
look on the back of any piece of sandpaper. It is garnet sand. You can
melt it with your browns gas generator and make rubies and emeralds
out of it.
The Germans were filling their air ships using zinc and aluminum
seventy years ago. About ten percent of the weight of the aluminum is
turned into hydrogen so you get about 100 milligrams of hydrogen from
one kilogram of aluminum. This works out to about 100 horse power
produced from one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of aluminum. I am dumping in
three kilograms or about 6.5 pounds of aluminum per five-hour trip.
This gives me an extra 50 horsepower for five hours. The trick is to
make it last by adjusting the lye mixture so that you don’t get all
your hydrogen at once. It is not as difficult as it sounds. You simply
stomp a bunch of cans flat and toss them in while you engine is
warming up. Now I need to find a deckhand that can drink two cases of
beer a day. Do you suppose there is a deckhand out there that can
drink two cases of beer a day?

Future projects:
Now that you know how to make hydrogen why not use it for other
purposes? A new hydrogen powered auxiliary generator for your boat,
trailer or motor home? You don’t need an exhaust system for your
hydrogen powered auxiliary (except to get rid of the heat) because the
exhaust is drinkable water. However if the engine you use has worn
rings you will get some oil smoke.
Any gasoline engine with the carburetor removed will work but air
cooled engines will give off more heat and is easier to install. You
simply install two metering valves in a convenient location and feed
the hydrogen into the intake hole where the carburetor used to be with
a 1/8 copper line. A basketball inflation tube works well on the end
to mix the hydrogen with incoming air. You also have to retard the
timing about 11 degrees. There are ignition systems out there where
you can alter the timing without filing another kea way in the flywheel
—however this is also a possibility. Some ignition coils can be
mounted in a different location to retard the ignition by drilling and
using self-taping screws. You can view complete instruction on how to
do this on You Tube. Your auxiliary should last a very long time
because there is no carbon build up. Longevity depends on how much
power you are taking out of it.
If you want to heat your boat engine room, trailer or motor home in
the winter you can install a T in the exhaust line to duct some of the
exhaust heat inside. You are burning hydrogen so your exhaust is H2O.
If you need any help with assembly or just want to chat, my phone
number is on my web site, www.AlaskaPublishing.com


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The authors plotted our course from its birthplace in Orion to its
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Dinosaurs with forty-foot wingspans could easily fly in the 200 PSI
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on Earth and doubled the productivity of the oceans so that Earth
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The builders of the pyramids knew our Sun was born in Orion and
orbiting Sirius because they aligned all their monuments with these
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