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New Innovative Energy Harvesting Devices

The search for new innovative energy harvesting devices is on the minds of many people and governments around the world, especially for alternative fuels to run in cars. America alone has spent over a billion dollars in research to find out how to do that, and many scientist are pointing to water as a possible fuel alternative.

In Toronto, Canada a little company named Rothman Technologies, Inc has discovered a feasible method for harvesting hydrogen and oxygen from ordinary tap water that can run existing engines found in our automobiles. Very little alteration is needed, and there wouldn't be a need for any external infrastructure support needed for fuel storage such as gas stations today to refill the tank.

Water is H2O and it consists of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, if there was a harvesting device to separate the hydrogen, the world would realize the vast amount of energy water contains, and can be used much like a battery. New innovative energy harvesting devices for future water-fuel systems will need to be able to separate hydrogen from water economically to make hydrogen a feasible alternative fuel.

Harvesting Hydrogen Gas

Rothman Technologies Inc uses water, salt and an inexpensive metal alloy in the process to harvest pure hydrogen which burns without requiring an external source. The burning of pure hydrogen gives off no pollution of any kind. The main interest here is the use of a metal alloy to harvest hydrogen.

The company runs a 12 horsepower gasoline powered combustion engine as an electrical generator, and it runs on only water as fuel. The system uses 13 half gallon containers that are attached to each other with tubes which are then connected to a larger tube that is directly connected to the engines carburetor.

The system is a crude set up, but could easily be improved, regardless; it proves that gasoline engines can easily be converted to run on hydrogen from water using new innovative energy harvesting devices that are similar to what the Rothman Technologies Inc has developed.

Only ordinary water is in the containers plus salt as an electrolyte. When a small metal alloy is placed into the electrolyte concoction, then hydrogen immediately begins to appear at an incredible rate. From there, the hydrogen travels the length of the tubes and directly into the carburetor to provide combustible fuel to the piston.

It is nothing less than amazing, using water and salt as fuel, and a small metal alloy being used as a catalyst would create enough hydrogen to fuel to be able to run a combustible engine.

The company claims saltwater can be readily used as the main fuel eliminating the need to add salt into the water. Also, the metal alloy apparently is so cheap that an engine powered by this system could run for hours on a small piece that would cost one Canadian cent.

Harvesting hydrogen is a wonderful idea and does not need to use oxygen from the atmosphere to combust, which outweighs the benefits of fossils fuels in that the use of hydrogen, can also save the oxygen in our atmosphere.