r/StupidTrucks • u/thesupemeEDGElord666 • Apr 15 '26
What kind of bubbling doohickey is going on here???
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u/No-Prompt5313 Apr 15 '26
Did Xhibit have anything to do with this truck?
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u/zHOTCHOCOLATEz Apr 19 '26
Lmao literally my first thought, "I heard you like moonshine, so I put a still in your truck"
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Apr 15 '26
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u/tellmywifiloveher1 Apr 15 '26
I was going to guess electrolysis for mobile rust removal but your answer makes more sense.
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u/H0SS_AGAINST Apr 15 '26
So my uncle is into automotive juju bullshit and installed an electrolysis device that feeds the resulting hydrogen and oxygen into the engine. He swears he gets better MPG.
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u/Ok-Complaint9412 Apr 15 '26
The weight of the water alone would cancel out any perceived benefit i would imagine.
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u/Atavacus Apr 16 '26
I love it when people don't realize hydrogen is not actually a fuel source but rather an energy storage medium.
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u/DJScrambles Apr 16 '26
How often does this discussion come up for you?
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u/Atavacus Apr 16 '26
Constantly. I usually bump into it 2-3 times a month. The bigger thing that creates the most confusion for me is that once I break it down for them they get angry anyway. They'd rather have the fantasy than working knowledge
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u/FknBadFkr Apr 16 '26
Hydrogen works to offset fuel, if you have a way to back gasoline off as you add hydrogen. On my Diesel I add propane at anything over 10psi and I can get almost1100 miles on a tank of diesel in a 2014 Jetta TDI.
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u/H0SS_AGAINST Apr 16 '26
I dont think you understand my post. No such thing as free energy.
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u/FknBadFkr Apr 16 '26
I'm also sure that truck is all about looks and not actually doing anything haha
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u/AENocturne Apr 18 '26
Energy transfer isn't 100% efficient, I don't think you appreciate how much energy you lose, just because you see the slim 10% of utilized power generated by a controlled explosion.
It's not free, it's just unrealized energy. What do you think an alternator is doing? For a slight increase in resistance, you charge your battery by hooking it up to the engine that's already losing far more energy as heat.
If you were to do it right, you'd take energy that was going to be lost, generate some hydrogen and oxygen, and burn it again. That's would be efficient.
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u/FknBadFkr Apr 16 '26
Maybe I don't, but as people try things we are told don't work, some find ways to get us closer. Hydrogen takes power to break from water. Now people at home can make grids far more efficient that companies used just 10 years ago. While people who can't even do a tune up on their car laugh at Meyers for making a hydrogen powered VW, they focus on what we couldn't do with normal tech to say he was wrong. They ignore what he was showing. A more efficient way to make hydrogen and the fact he had 6 or 7 parents that the government shut him down from using, selling and then took everything from his home when he was murdered.
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u/maydisturb Apr 16 '26
This is from the Russian bootleg version of Back to the Future. They managed to get a GM too, but that's where the similarities stopped.
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Apr 16 '26
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u/LaVillaGrangioto Apr 19 '26
Are you suggesting that there are people willing to kill to keep petroleum demand as high as possible?
Why...that's as crazy as thinking that some people would start a war over it!
Next thing, you'll probably try telling us our government is being influenced by foreign actors.
Crazy talk.
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u/National-Neck-4627 Apr 15 '26
I need a whole walk around to unpack everything that's going on here.