Can water be split into HHO and used as fuel?

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Total BS. You need to split the water into HHO first, which is not an easy task, but more importantly, then you burn the HHO, you can't get any new energy out of it, just whatever you put into split it in the first place.
 
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They add baking soda as a catalyst and use the car battery to run electricity through metal coils submerged in the water container which has a vacuum line connected to it. Would that process work? Where is information that says that using this process would require more energy input in electricity than would be released as mechanical energy when combusting the product?
 
W3pcq said:
Where is information that says that using this process would require more energy input in electricity than would be released as mechanical energy when combusting the product?

Try any chemistry textbook.
 
You probably can. Still doesn't change the fact that you're paying for something that doesn't work.
 
It is H2, not HHO. The hydrogen only remains monoatomic for a few milliseconds.

HHO = nonsense.

If you make H2 to burn in your car, you spend about twice as much energy to make it as you get back from it as a fuel.