#014 - MadStu's Water Powered Van - First MPG Rate - 7.2%...

7.2% Improvement on MPG rate for £2.45 worth of steel plates!

Not bad - better than I expected! Based on driving 99.3 miles with the cheap cell switched on I had a rate of 40.2 MPG. The baseline rate (based on 31 previous fill-ups) was 37.5 MPG.

Now it has to be stated that in many of the 31 previous fill ups I had achieved rates of up to 42MPG. And also as low as 32MPG, so I can't really get too excited about this rate until a few tests have been made -

It is worth noting though that I was mainly driving at 70 MPH this afternoon. Usually when I drive at 70 my MPG rate is around 35 MPG. I rarely achieve over 40 MPG and that's only when I stick to 60 MPH.

Tomorrow I will be using the same cell (in fact it's still in the van) but sticking to 60 MPH to see how it does.

If anybody is interested in tracking my MPG rate and the difference from the baseline, you can track it live at www.watervan.co.uk - It updates as soon as I fill up (benefits of a mobile phone data plan!)

It might also be worth noting that I do not stick to a certain route when testing MPG. Nor do I stick to the same pump, or even the same petrol station - the nature of my work doesn't allow this, however, I think the average will allow us to get a pretty good idea!

My eventual goal is to power my van off of water - by extracting Hydrogen out of the Water and feeding it to the fuel mix chamber.


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[eandatoo]

Hey, Stu

Have you used any potassium hydroxide for your electrloyte? Others get great results from using it. It seems to have better conductive properties.

[MadStu1978]

Hi, yes, see the latest videos :)

[stevie1001H2]

Hi Stuart, Love your video's.

Keep on going the good work!

br

Steve

[MadStu1978]

Thanks mate, you too!

[MadStu1978]

Yeah, I knew the plates wouldn't last anyway.

I did it because they were really cheap, so though I'd give it a go. It worked for a day at least ;)

[comos2103]

he fact that he is taking an average will greatly reduce his margin of error. the one problem that he did not take into consideration with this one ( but I see that he did later) was that to make hho this way electrolysis take place so a material that does not oxidize is needed. granted I have no idea how many fill-ups during the life span to see if there was a cost saving but that is what experimenting is about.

[palehorsepalerider]

your statistical margin of error, and lack of static controls, along side your variables makes this data pretty worthless - sorry to say.

[MadStu1978]

Actually, it's other name is Caustic Potash, Caustic Soda is Sodium Hydroxide (as opposed to Potassium Hydroxide, or KOH for short).

As you can tell I've been learning lots lately! :)

[madbillt66]

Stu,by KOH he means caustic soda,dont suppose they do it at Boots no more!

[MadStu1978]

Haha, first time lucky