Cheap And Easy Hydrogen (Brown's Gas) Generator

[@burt_james_esq]

I constructed an electrolyzer with a stainless steel fire extinguisher + 12 stainless steel rods. Placed it on my little Ford pickup with a 2.0 L engine. After testing and measuring I came up with the 53% increase in mileage. Used baking soda for the mix. The downfall was when I came home one night I was so tired after a long day at work that I forgot to shut the power off to it and blew the fire extinguishers seams to bits. I considered it a success.

[@TheChzoronzon]

I was gonna praise your humor sense... but then I saw your channels subs and realized you probably were serious... lmao What are you doing in a channel like this, bro?

[@burt_james_esq]

@@TheChzoronzon who the hell cares? Get a big laugh my ass off over that one.

[@clydedenby1436]

A Ford Courier?

[@burt_james_esq]

@@clydedenby1436 ranger

[@elonwhite6628]

Nice work, I would suggest using a pressure regulator valve if you were to redo the experiment so that if the hydrogen builds up to much within the fire extinguisher, it would be vented, preventing the extinguisher from going pop

[@glennwebster1675]

Played around with HHO for a couple year's. I had best surface area production results with stainless steel wool. I never knew about urea. Thanks again......

[@TazerGames]

Doesn't it go bad quickly ?

[@glennwebster1675]

@@TazerGames industrial pot scrubbers. It's not that fine of a mesh and I used one for over a year and it still produced strong.

[@joek511]

Use window screen, that really puts it out. It rolls like paper, and You can cut it with a box blade

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

I remember some experiments with the catalytic converter material as one of the electrodes that claimed excess energy, i think it was palladium.

[@kenbellchambers4577]

@@GaryMcKinnonUFO Yes, this massively increased the hydrolysis efficiency. The palladium, induced a vibration on the water molecule which loosened its bonds. Man in Florida discovered this phenomenon.

[@schinderiapraemeturus6239]

pulse width modulation (PWM) circuitry, tune your cell to resonant frequency-gas is produced via capacitative discharge versus brute DC electrolysis. This type of gas is mono atomic H and O at highest entropy state (1L H2O/1800L gas). cell input is tuned to standing square wave modulation at high kilo-cycle frequencies. you will find harmonic 'sweet spots' where gas production is optimal at a fraction of the input wattage...so I have heard

[@raymondfoster219]

your all right mate, really enjoy your way of getting stuff done. always head for my workshop to get active too after watching you rob, you have an honest intelligent ability and put me to shame. when all is said and done you make me an engineer, thanks teacher keep them coming.

[@yankeepirate8927]

Cheap&easy 5 gallon bucket high volume, a) coil 4ft x 12 inch stainless, drop in bucket, it spins open lining the inside, put ovc pipe between wraps for max flow. b) 2 inch vertical pipe in center stuffed with all thread and washers or stainless mesh so it doesn't protrude below pipe. Tap top center anode for hydrogen with 1/2 inch PVC, tap outer ring for oxygn (water) oxygen/chlorine (sea water) oxygen/nitrogen (urea) etc. Its also a self regulating rig, filling center pipe, lowering water level until gas feed line empties.

[@1956Caddy]

Indication of liters (or fraction of liter) produced per minute would help to evaluate this very clever and simple assembly.

[@0.zz.y]

The more videos you upload, the more jobs go on my whiteboard in my workshop haha. Keep up the good work, thanks.

[@daddyo6553]

What would happen if you try drinking 5 pints of beer and using the outcome for the electrolyte

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

you could light up your workroom lol

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - glad I can help mate lol

[@0.zz.y]

Light up is one word I would use lol and probably not a nice gentle glow haha

[@chrispwilliams6297]

Great video, another simple way is to use 2 balls of wire wool. Put one (+ )inside a nylon sock and sink it in the solution. Then put another (-) on top this doesn’t need to be socked but it won’t hurt. Then switch it on and watch the gas flow 🤪

[@aurasensor]

Guess best press together the two steelwool lumps.

[@AnthonyKing-li8zu]

Possibly quite possibly you're my favorite garage scientist or Macgyver if that's not an insult, but my intention is absolutely a compliment

[@scantrain5007]

Dear Rob, this devise is superb in conclusion with photo voltaic. If you run PV and not consuming all electric power you can produse hydrogen with this generator and store it for later purposes. (Called Power to gas, but many said it's not eficient enough - 30% effectivity only ...) For example feed a petrol motor with hydrogen you get electric power and hot water as well. Or just use the gas for heating or cooking. Great system! Thanks for the upload!

[@aarondonaldson4164]

You cannot store Brown's gas. The oxidizer and the Hydrogen are never separate so the combustion mixture is always stoichiometric. That's why Brown's gas POPs really loudly, and Hydrogen merely whooshes. It would be suicidal to store brown's gas under any kind of pressure exceeding a balloon.

[@chelsona2574]

@@aarondonaldson4164 what about storing it under water inside the balloon?

[@stanleymeyer3417]

Prueba de poner entre ambas mallas de acero inoxidable una malla de plástico, y enrolla todo el conjunto, así logras un par de electrodos con gran área y pequeña separación. No necesitas Urea como electrolito, si la R de la celda es bien baja. Usa agua del grifo. Saludos de Américo Caorsi desde Tacuarembó - Uruguay, que siempre mira tus videos.

[@djg585]

For the spacers, you can cut half-inch PVC pipe lengthwise and use 3" lengths of this.

[@shigatsuningen]

A few tips. AdBlue is a urea solution for motor vehicles. Urea is sold as a dry mix fertilizer under the market name Carbamide. It is also sold at health product stores as an additive to health spa bath water.

[@aaronbeck6959]

I just wanted to say I've been watching you for a long time and man I have learned so much from you that I never would have learned from school. And I truly appreciate such... It is the most education and the most important education I think I've ever gotten in this life. And I think you good sir. Rock On & Prosper. Tesla would be proud

[@josephpark18254]

I got 10 years for electrolyzing baking soda water and cocain. I’ve struggled with clean energy. Jokes aside thanks for the informative video. We need this stuff out there more.

[@stl7694]

If you want to separate the hydrogen and oxygen, a good arrangement is some PVC pipes constructed in the basic shape of a "UU" with three uprights (If you imagine the center as one pipe). The Pipe on one side is the Cathode, the Pipe on the Other end is the Anode and the pipe in the center is for refilling. You can cap either end and store or vent as desired. Point of Safety for everyone. I have heard that stainless steel releases Chromates in this process and is not something you want laying around and you shouldn't just pour it down the sink.

[@CoincidenceTheorist]

Do the chromates get released in the gas as well

[@incognitoalias2808]

This is why platinum plates are used for human consumption of the water and for nebulizing???

[@achmyta0160]

​@@incognitoalias2808 Stainless steel consists of part chromium. Chromium oxidizes to chromium oxides during electrolysis. One of those oxides is chromium oxide VI ( hexavalent ). HIGHLY CANCEROUS. In civilized countries, you can't by law ( and shouldn't regardless ) just dispose of that "rust". There is special protocol for disposing it(!). Don't breathe it in. Don't dump it outside/down the drain. Don't touch it with bare hands. Don't use stainless steel as a waste electrode. USE GRAPHITE RODS/PLATES. Best conductivity, best porousness, cheapest, most efficient. Breaks down into graphite powder/graphene.

[@TotoMacFrame]

@@CoincidenceTheorist No, they settle down as some kind of clay or so. Let it dry, scrap it into a bag and drop it of your local hazardous material disposal center.

[@gregshafransky1907]

FYI I was partnered with Dr..Alex Brown who disappeared on his way to start a 50:50 diesel /water carburetor at the major US diesel manufacturer in Wisconsin. The scarier fact is they did a 3-page feature story about the deal in Business Week and ty to find the story in a periodical search at a library anywhere...you will not find that week's magazine...it has been expunged world wide..

[@jeremiahshine]

I just saw today that Mazda has a bunch of new technology in production with Brown's Gas! Hooray!

[@leonunlimited7552]

I made one years ago and it worked great! It was sheets of plexiglass, stainless steel and some rubber gaskets...

[@bodhidharmafpv1971]

Robert, a future video idea might be to put a cheap submersible pump in the electrolyzer. Hydrogen bubbles cling to the electrodes acting as an insulator reducing efficiency, vibrating the plates can free hydrogen and a pumped solution flowing over the plates from the bottom up could increase efficiency too. Eliminate the bubbles to increase efficiency and yield. Is there a best sonic or ultrasonic frequency for breaking the hydrogen bubbles free of the surface? How do you separate out the oxygen from the gas stream? A cheap plastic or glass tube open at both ends would work to do this, silicone it to the inside spacers and a rubber seal at the top to the lid and put the O2 collection tube lower in the gas column.

[@aquamark1]

Quick solution to that ultra sonic toothbrush maybe

[@dansw0rkshop]

Upside down terracotta clay pot with the usual plumbing and spacers. These are porous and act as an "ion membrane" -- it is conductive when saturated with electrolyte.

[@MarcelLENORMAND]

Very cool! I’ve been wondering about net positive electrolysis for donkey’s years and assumed it wasn’t possible because no one was talking about it! Thank you!

[@MrGoatflakes]

You get aught for naught, the urea takes energy to make :P

[@tudorevans3258]

Water before separation is in the liquid phase, while water after recombination is in the vapour phase, which has lower internal energy due to the loss of hydrogen bonds, and a huge increase in entropy due to the extra space occupied. This is the apparent free energy.

[@martinbobak3009]

You're never gonna get more energy out than in! That's just impossible.

[@josea.cuetos.5085]

@@martinbobak3009 That law is valid in closed systems not in open systems. Regards.

[@kaka_kaka28]

@@MrGoatflakes , urea can be replaced by urine ?.

[@richardsandwell2285]

The Stainless Lathe is a great idea, cheap and easy to get hold of at most good builders merchants. To run a car you would just need to separate off the Hydrogen and store it, apparently, tanks with Lithium 6 Deuteride is best to absorb it, however getting this fairly harmless material can be a pain because it is used in nuclear bombs, however I did once hear of Carbon being made from Coconut shells and being used to absorb Methane in Tanks to run cars, maybe some sort of a carbon matrix would also work for Hydrogen to increase the storage capacity of tanks.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

another interesting idea mate - cheers

[@russellwarren9595]

lol, when you mentioned sewing I was thinking that maybe you could start a side business making doilies!! lol. but in all seriousness, in the early days of computers they used to use seamstresses to wire up the rope memory because they were already highly skilled and the technique was basically identical.

[@darkfieldcarnivore3928]

I don't understand why those with the know how and inclination don't do what Stan himself said he did. Adjustable frequency alternating current electrolysis under vacuum between set gapped plates. Just like em waves can disassociate h2o he claimed the same at certain frequency ac and feed back resonance within the cell breaking the bonds on mass. Think opera singer and wine glass.

[@spy-v-spy1848]

2 stainless steel balloon wisks stuffed with steel wool can be used as electrodes are easily put together at home, also you can collect both gasses at once to get Brown's gas(HHO,) or put a collection tube over each eletrode & you can collect the Hydrogen at the negative pull & Oxygen at the positive pull separately. Be careful Brown's gas is highly energetic don't mess with this or try it at home...not only will it result in water it will blow your hand clean off. I will leave out the basic home chemicals to make this possible. Funny how water & a few easily sourced materials can easily make a high explosive. Knowledge is power! They may be coming after our guns, but that is because they already robbed us of ou real weapons...basic understanding, common sense & the will not to be subjagated. The thing they fear most is the word "No"!

[@gordtron]

been thinking to do the balloon whisk, just got to find the right one. picked up stainless scrubbers, just need to find the right spill proof high heat plastic housing with some nice high heat plastic bottles or containers to put one or more whisks in. really want to mix this with methane if i can get that going but would love to look into powering a generator. what sorta uses can you use these for?

[@leonunlimited7552]

Baking soda... hydrogen sulfide... potato juice... any catalyst, really..

[@lorriecarrel9962]

Thank you for info,knowledge sharing is so great,if the rest of the world was like you we all could advance much faster

[@HILUXCHAINSAW]

We call that mesh Ex Met' expanding metal. Get it from your builders merchant. Make sure to ask for stainless though!.

[@dustinsmith8341]

Hello! I'm wondering if another route to go would be to use a stainless steel pressure cooker. You can use the cooker itself as one electrode. You can have the other electrode wired through the hole that will be created when you unscrew and remove the pressure gauge. Then you can connect a hose to the pressure release port where the 15 psi weight would usually sit.

[@magicone9327]

That would work except even stainless whatever you use will eventually be consumed by the electrolosis.

[@dansw0rkshop]

@@magicone9327 Only the positive electrode gets consumed. As long as the pressure cooker was the negative electrode, it would not get consumed.

[@jasonwitt8619]

Oh WOW, I'm glad I ordered 5 pounds of the urea now, that means I have a ton of uses for it, awesome video mate.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate - have fun!

[@Mangomesh]

What kind of urea is it? I'm new to this and I don't want to get the wrong brand/kind.

[@chrisbutler9985]

I've built a couple of home made HHO generators but I did not know that is was so much more efficient with urea! That is brilliant! Good work!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate - have a look at the new cell design i hav just posted on members

[@chrisbutler9985]

@@ThinkingandTinkering on it already👍

[@andrewbeaton3302]

I never knew about them usign Urea! AWESOME VIDEO! They sell a stainless 316 spatula grill set at homedepot and its super cheap! I just sand in 45 angles maximizing surface area! Great stuff!! Would love to see a Dry cell with Titanium plates. Someone is getting crazy performance with that.. I wonder what a graphene-coated TI would be? Spin coated maybe?

[@sikismeker]

I try graphit coating on plate. As soon as you put electricity it is washing off right away. And i try to melt copper to liuquid phase and mix it whit graphite. It will not bond.

[@rocketpoolpki]

mustard mate...beautifully simple and effective...I have had a love/hate relationship with EML for the last 30 years, lol, thankfully this is SS and not galvanized pain.

[@Killianwsh]

could you elaborate more on the mustard bit?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

that right - awesome

[@JohnDoe-fu4qd]

potassium hydroxide works the best as a conductor in water.

[@delawarecop]

SURFACE AREA is the key to improved productivity and there is no better SURFACE ARE to VOLUME ration than inexpensive Extruded Carbon Water Filter Cartridges from your local hardware store, and using a very inexpensive brush-less DC water Pump to circulate the UREA through the Cartridges and back to a Recovery tank, where the Gases can be easily extracted and used for combustion or whatever else you desire. Obviously you use a Twin Filter Cartridge Housing so that both Carbon Filters act as Anode & Cathode and linked in the center via the common urea feed from the pump. The efficiency can be further improved by electroplating the Carbon Filters with very inexpensive NICKEL, which acts as a catalyst to the H2 production.

[@mikebond6328]

delawarecop What type of carbon filter do you mean?

[@gusteffan]

Hi Rob, that was truly awesome, I’ve look at hydrogen generator over the year but as you so correctly say build one with all the plates and separators and gaskets and cleaning and on and on I never felt confident enough, your way is so simple I don’t know why I’ve not stumbled on it before, probably again like you say kept away from us, absolutely fantastic, thanks mate

[@harleyme3163]

316L grade steel or your anode with corrode off quick.. its the only steel that can resist the Stripping action know for electroplating. (the + material will be stripped off to the - side

[@fieroboom]

I think a timed test to determine hydrogen volume produced & how much the assembly heats up at that voltage (wasted energy) should be in order. Getting too hot at higher voltages seems to be a common plague among diy electrolyzers.

[@PitchUpCampsiteReviews]

Best science teacher in the world.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - cheers mate

[@victordupree5609]

Besides urea you could use distilled water and potassium chloride as a catalyst.

[@stg3orgeguy26]

Have you tried stainless steel braided water lines for electrodes

[@1magnit]

After a bit of googling, you'll get H2 at one electrode and CO2 and N2 at the other. Browns gas is actually o2 and H2

[@haveaniceday7950]

Electrolysis in general or using urea specifically? Yeah diatomic hydrogen and oxygen not separated but together is browns gas from what I understand.

[@px1690]

and thus in this way you get a mixture out of the pot.. not great for storing but there might be another great way to split that (other than separating the annode and kathode in separate but connected pots.

[@roberttill3787]

In actual fact you get H at negative electrode, H being Hydrogen. And you get O2 from the positive electrode. H =Hydrogen and o2=Oxygen,2 parts. Add both together and you get H2O which is water.

[@HitmanMOB1]

@@roberttill3787 its actually 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen

[@roberttill3787]

@@HitmanMOB1 Cheers for pointing that out!

[@fxrjoe4894]

Very new at this hho systems. Thank you for the awesome ideas. You have no idea how much your design is going to help me.

[@elguapo1507]

Every day's a school day! Great presentation! Thank you.

[@trail457]

How would you use the hydrogen,what type of container to store this stuff?

[@snoddyification]

EXCELLENT. No shortage of variety here. THANKS

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@nigeljohnson9820]

It would be nice to know the half cell reactions. The combined gas output looks like carbon dioxide, nitrogen and hydrogen. Is the overall reaction NH2CONH2 + H2O > N2 + 3H2 + CO2 ? (sorry about the lack of subscripts). Some papers suggest adding potassium hydroxide to convert the CO2 to a carbonate, keeping it in solution. They also suggest using nickel electrodes as this acts as a catalyst for greater gas production. I note, you do not attempt to collect the gasses evolved at the electrodes separately. This is not a problem for an OHH generator as the products are both reactive, but in this urea cell, the nitrogen and carbon dioxide are unwanted byproducts. Why is your cell brown, what is in solution? Any idea why urea electrolysis is not a more common method of hydrogen production, give how abundant urea is in the environment?

[@affiliatereviews4079]

Urea is used in fertilizer. To use it as a fuel would directly compete with farmers and raise the cost of food. Also it is made from natural gas.

[@nigeljohnson9820]

@@affiliatereviews4079 we make very poor use of the fertiliser contained sewage. This is often discharged to the rivers and sea unprocessed, it then poisons the environment, producing huge algae blooms. It would be far better if this was processed to produce fertiliser.

[@incognitoalias2808]

​@@nigeljohnson9820The Good old Honey Wagons in the German Country Side......

[@nigeljohnson9820]

@@incognitoalias2808 this is a reference I know little about, but I can guess. Its a case of "Waste not want not".

[@doctorpurple5173]

You should try using copper electrodes coated with your graphene ink, copper would normally deteriorate in an electrolytic cell like this but your waterproof ink might have quite interesting results

[@kreynolds1123]

the carbon would oxidize to graphene oxide, lose conductivity and stop working.

[@doctorpurple5173]

@@kreynolds1123 have you tried this? Or is that just a hypothesis? I'd think graphene would take higher temperatures or voltages to oxidize, and urea electrolysis doesn't produce oxygen it produces carbon dioxide and nitrogen aside from the hydrogen. But Idk cause I don't have any graphene to experiment with

[@petercoutu4726]

One potential option using the stainless steel mesh to increase the output is to find a plastic mesh and roll that between the 2 electrode layers together. Or find a paint that is durable and insulating enough and paint. Another section of the stainless steel mesh to do the same thing.

[@PerpetualMotor]

Very clever! Why are you so smart? I don’t remember how I came across your channel so many years ago, but I’m glad that I did.

[@vintasalo]

I believe S Myers also used a FWM. I wonder if changing the hz or using high voltage can help break the bond easier

[@MarkSeve]

Hmm, what is the resonant frequency of a water molecule?

[@hyperhektor7733]

@@MarkSeve on german wikipedia is written that its lowest resonance is 22,23508 GHz. But multiples of it too. But the implication that full divisions(/1x) wont work is untrue since i found that at ~22khz there is a slight increase. Also note that household Microwaves use´only 2,455 GHz. So just divide 22,23508 GHz by 10/100/1000/10k/100k/1mio I didn't compare 22khz vs 222khz or megahertz since i didn't have the right oscillator at the moment. (You need an oscillator an a mosfet which can handle the frequency you want to use.

[@Tranquilitarian]

When you first mentioned the electrolyte being urea, I thought you pissed in the jar!😂😂

[@kafkaian]

I made one of these out of two lengths of stainless steel cable for my old VW Beetle but didn't save much noticeably on fuel. Now you're talking urea as an electrolyte I might reinvestigate. Hmmm. Cheers 🍻 Ian, Birmingham

[@thebeststooge]

Basically pee.

[@aomanchutube]

Who would have think it! You just needed to carry more pee around with you.

[@kreynolds1123]

My guess is that you were not getting many amps. Surface area is immensely important, additionally a strongly conductive electrolyte helps a lot too. you should use KOH. Unless you have a lot of it, a stainless steel cable does not really have a lot of surface area. and you should never over drive it at 0.5 amps per sq inch of anode, or cathode. Build an electrolysis cell with 30 sq inches per electrode and drive it at 15 amps and you'll see reasonably good HHO production. or build a series of cells and make the electrolyte more conductive so that you can still drive it at 15 amps and you have reasonably good production while using less power. Because Hydrogen has a faster flame front, it helps burn more of the primary fuel during the power stroke which helps makes a low efficient engine more efficient. thus improving overall economy despite the power drawn for electrolysis.

[@reincarnatethylacine70]

@@kreynolds1123 There are a myriad of reasons that HHO injection is a counter productive waste of time. Just a few off the top of my head: There is no free lunch, all the energy to disassociate the water comes from the alternator which is in turn powered by the burning of fuel in the engine. Hydrogen is much less dense than air and actually displaces available oxygen, reducing not adding to power. The IC engine is at best 30% efficient meaning that at the absolute best it is only possible to recover 30% of the energy used in HHO production. On a practical level the volumes of HHO produced by most automotive applications is utterly insignificant in relation to the volume of gasses passing through the motor. The majority of the 'snake oil kits' produce less than 10 litres an hour on the other hand a 2 litre car engine operating at 2500RPM processes 300,000 litres an hour. If you want to produce more HHO you need to burn more fuel, there's no other way.

[@sceptic33]

You don't have to pull power from the alternator. Most of the energy released in an engine is wasted as heat. This waste heat can be used to generate electricity using a Stirling engine or peltier module array... No extra strain on the engine...pure efficiency boost. Simple.

[@ThetaPower]

An electrolyzer is not a Brown’s gas generator. A Brown’s gas generator is a type of electrolyzer. To make Brown’s gas requires a pulsed input. As electrolyzes go, yours is by far the simplest implementation I have seen. Thank you. I’d like to suggest you do the molar math to prove over unity. There are many claims of over unity electrolyzers, but I haven’t seen one that stands up to the math - meaning none are over unity.

[@martythemartian99]

Me: Hey Robert, can you make a simple hydrogen electrolytizer? Robert: Sure, piece of piss! (wink)

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - oh very good mate - that tickled my funny bone lol

[@johnmarkgatti3324]

you-really fell for that one Rob ! , but be carefull not to P off the oil companies , they's known fa hand'n yous ya 'rears in a jar if yah do

[@marttiinnanen4911]

@@johnmarkgatti3324 Oh yes then you're in deep

[@threeMetreJim]

Skirting around the issue of why the water isn't clear. :-) Taking the p**s, lol.

[@dicelabiblia7461]

You are such a great teacher, thank you so much

[@Hitngan]

Free energy at last. Thanks for changing the world.

[@dlfrestoration]

I built one of those in 2000 to run a lpg Landover it ended up been 2x 1.5m long and running 3 alts and 2 inverters to power it all. As long as you didnt have long hills you cld run it purely on water.

[@decyrano]

Breathing that gas in a controlled environment has specific and ranging benefits. Burn recovery is accelerated by multiples.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

is that right - awesome - cheers for that mate

[@decyrano]

@@ThinkingandTinkering "Hydrogen Inhalation" pubmed :extremely enlightening results

[@creatorgenerator1998]

Have you played with the frequency? tuning to a resonance for the liquid may just split the molecules more efficiently.

[@donedwards5301]

Just on question. The gases coming off wouldn't be just hydrogen, but an admixture of that with probably Nitrogen and Carbon dioxide. Is there a way to collect just the hydrogen and vent off the other gases?

[@japlah]

Why SS and would the grade of SS mesh(austentic/316/304) make a difference ?

[@mohammadhashemi1771]

hi Robert please let us know how the urea electrolyte solution is made

[@pinecone2516]

Robert, in a past video you added capacitors with diodes and ran the generator off the caps. Would you be able to do the same thing here to have a consistent flow of energy to the hydrogen generator to run it off a cars 12 V system ? Thank you for being on UTube

[@mantis3dfx]

Just wondering whether the cost of the urea in conjunction with how often it needs to be replaced is more economical or less per cubic meter of H2 produced, when compared to traditional KOH electrolysis...

[@johnmarkgatti3324]

Rob its a good idea to condition the stainless by running the device for an extended period ,then replacing the electrolyte , repeat a few times , you get a brown sludge as the ss 'rusts' , I got rather a high chrome reading from doing this ,so use gloves and dispose of sludge safely ,, can get 2 liters a minute for 10 amps 13.8 volts dc using potasium H , 7 plate series cell , plates about 200 cm square , stuff goes bang louder than a shot gun .Stan Meyers ran VW buggy with on board generated HHO , then got poisoned ! ,. suspect he figured something else out though,to do with nitrogen . His cells were SS tubes inside tubes ,cut to have same resonant frequency,completely immersed in water , probably set up to be a capacitor in an LC resonating circuit .

[@Atimar01]

question: if urea splits the water at lower than normal volts, why do i hear 21 volts and not 1.2 volts or something? it is afterall just a 2 "plate" cell right?

[@the_socompsp]

1-2v at high amps works best. also high freq pulsed DC also does well

[@TrollFaceTheMan]

So what are the waste products in the solution? If you are getting the hydrogen from the solution and not Oxygen from the water not the water not splitting then at all or is it still splitting and the oxygen is reacting with the Nitrogen in the Urea to make some other compound? And if so what might that be? Something like ammonia? Excuse my ignorance.

[@clevelandexplorer2221]

Thank you! I gotta say you're super inspiring and easy to follow every time

[@photonicmartin5832]

Hi. I would use weed eaters string as spacers to roll both sheets at once. Should make a big diference. Keep the good knowledge roll.

[@satibel]

I'd use some plastic dish mats or plastic poultry fence, fairly cheap, and really easy to use, just make a sandwich with plastic/metal/plastic/metal.

[@shawnherron2721]

Does the circuit left on heat up the 20 amp wire and controller that you are using in quick time the same as it would hooking a battery to itself with through the solution with only an auto breaker?

[@solarsynapse]

Why stainless steel? There are many formulas of stainless steel. Is there a particular metal in it that would work best as pure, such as Nickel? Thanks!

[@fascistphilosophy5649]

instead of using stainless steel shouldn't I use copper or silver to enhance conductivity?

[@johnramirez5032]

Thanks for the video but now that you have this explosive gas how to you store it and use it?

[@jonathangriffin3486]

Are you breaking a weak bond in the urea then burning the hydrogen in oxygen to the more stable h2o and you can get more energy out than the electrical energy in?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

exactly

[@jamescunliffe9872]

I've made a generator using a stainless thermos,stainless pan scrubbers a sock and a skewer also stainless! + bolts and barb connection to homebrew tubing

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

awesome mate

[@positivelastaction3957]

Thank you! I am planning to make a Brown's gas generator. I know nothing about how to make these, but I am going to do it.

[@engjds]

Did you look into optimal spacing vs voltage and current?

[@madsnoop7]

I seen a vidya years ago of some bloke who had a computer controller and a sensor in the jar for the changing frequency of the water .so the computer would read the sensor and change the input sine wave to match this sweet spot he found . I cant find it .... oh and let's not forget Stanley Meyers from USA and also I'll add in Bob Lazar running his Corvette on Hydrogen

[@iphlueable]

I remember this. It was around 44khz.

[@mjobrien69]

Hi Robert, how long would you expect the stainless wire to last before replacement? Thanks Matt

[@cecilsabourin9462]

Ingenious ,simple ,but would be interested in timed flow rates , volumes ,flamability ,etc.

[@stuartcoyle1626]

That Rigol power supply is wonderfully grubby. Nice to see it getting real use.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - cheers mate

[@manusholm3536]

does your stainless electrodes erode ofer time? thinking of building one in a stailnless tank and use the tank for one electrode. dont want that to erode and spring a leak.

[@kosotieosterling5167]

I have a dry cell that I have bought some time ago and that car is now sold and I'm planing on installing it in the one I have now. Question, is the urea apllicable to dry cells as well?

[@SheplerStudios]

Loved this! If one had access to a lot of otherwise wasted animal livestock urine, the net energy gain might truly be positive. Run the electrical supply from solar pv and store the hydrogen for heating or transportation use.

[@Barskor1]

I found on the net an easy way to store and pressurize the gas is to have two cylinders one fitting into the other fill the bottom one with water and have the gas inlet come from the top outside and go to the bottom center to fill the second cylinder putting weights on the second cylinder top controls the pressure.

[@stevetobias4890]

You mentioned urea as a fertilizer, do you buy it from a farm supply store? Also was the hydrogen freely escaping into the room atmosphere or building pressure in the jar to a certain pressure before escaping or being collected? Also what happens if you up the power to say 5v 3a, would that effect the results

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

yep farm supply will sell it and in this little set up it was freely escaping - but I didn't run it for long - and that's why lol

[@idea-shack]

Even better, electrolyze dilute glycerine solutions from bio-diesel effluent, dirt cheap stuff -- almost as cheap as crude oil these days lol, plus it is highly alkaline, making it strongly conductive. Ideally you'd want a PGM catalyst on the cathode and anode for best efficiency. Bonus, you won't even release CO2, but sequester it as carbonate in the process!

[@TrentTationnaiseXization]

Ive ran electrolysis off of small solar panels using other solutions. The efficiency of urea solution sounds impressive.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

it's pretty cool stuff mate - well worth looking into

[@fiberglass101]

So what can I use if I don't have a regulated power source? How much power are you using in the video? is the jar lid plastic or metal? At what rate will this unit produce hydrogen (volume) at a given voltage? how does one collect and store the hydrogen?

[@santosadrianogl]

Maybe it would be super interesting to make a hydrolyzer with gas separation, using a membrane that is used in lead acid batteries!

[@inductor1.77]

What if we took all of the urine a city produces and used electrolysis to generate hydrogen power and used the nitrogen for fertilizer

[@austinpowers3679]

This does look a lot easier than messing about with SSteel pipes , which is what I used many years ago while doing this sort of thing, never knew about the Urea angle though.

[@magicone9327]

What about making one using PVC twin tanks connected at bottom and screw in lids for separating the gases?

[@ydNgAlpha]

Hopefully you can build Joe Cell, and teach us how to make it. Thank you and more power professor!

[@josea.cuetos.5085]

Great! I am interested in Joe Cell too, regards.

[@mauriciochiessi7138]

I was wondering if there is any safe way of making hydrogen-powered vehicles such that you don't blow your neighborhood sky high if there is a collision or something goes wrong like backfiring.

[@davidcole5979]

Open out a stainless steel scourer (like a brillo pad) and it will do the job much cheaper.

[@aomanchutube]

Alternate title: pissing* on an electric fence without the risk of electrocution.

[@ronmiller7916]

A ren and stimpy episode

[@amasonstartup6876]

Correction please "pissing"

[@aomanchutube]

@@amasonstartup6876 done

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol

[@noe616]

Human urea is the breakthrough bcause we consume too much salt.

[@kennedy67951]

Hey Robert, if you get back a Net Gross of Energy like what you've said. Would there be enough Gas Energy to Run a well Designed System on just it's on Energy or Gas output? Also if you Separate the Oxygen from the Hydrogen couldn't you use this back into the Production as an Accelerator?

[@dansw0rkshop]

That's a great question, and I wondered about the net energy claim. He did mention the urea breaking down into a nitrogen-hydrogen mix. I'm guessing the urea breaks down in a way that needs to be replenished. The extra energy is stored in the urea somehow, and getting released upon electrolyzing. It was a bit of a distraction from the HHO cell. You can also use washing soda (Sodium Carbonate) as the electrolyte, to lower the cell voltage. It works even better, in my opinion.

[@mightyconker3903]

Thanks. The urea tidbit was fascinating