Alternative Fuel World

Now that you know what methanol is, one limited use for methanol is in automotive fuel. Internal combustion engines, mainly  by virture of the fact that is it not nearly as falmmable as gasoline.

Pure methanol is required by rule to be used in USAC sprint cars, midgets, modifieds, etc etc, other dirt track series and Champcars.

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HHO (Oxyhydrogen) is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gasses in a 2:1 ratio. The 2:1 ratio is the same proportion as water. The gaseous mixture is commonly used for high temperture cutting torches and processing refactrory materials.

HHO used as a fuel or fuel additive to increase your automotive energy is widely speculated and no claims have ever been proven, as a matter of fact most have already been proven false due to the conservation of energy laws. Which states that the total amount of energy in any isolated system remains constantbut cannot be recreated although it may change forms.

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Think of them as big batteries, but ones that only operate when fuel—in this case, pure hydrogen—is supplied to them. When it is, an electrochemical reaction takes place between the hydrogen and oxygen that directly converts chemical energy into electrical energy. Various types of fuel cells exist, but the one automakers are primarily focusing on for fuel cell cars is one that relies on a proton-exchange membrane, or PEM. In the generic PEM fuel cell pictured at left, the membrane lies sandwiched between a positively charged electrode (the cathode) and a negatively charged electrode (the anode). In the simple reaction that occurs here rests the hope of engineers, policymakers, and ordinary citizens that someday we’ll drive entirely pollution-free cars.

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