Can Browns Gas (BG) be used as a vehicle fuel?
A. Internal combustion engines run extremely well on Brown’s Gas. However, it takes more energy, in form of electricity to make the BG than the engine will produce while running on Brown’s Gas as its only fuel. Using Brown’s Gas as an engine’s only fuel, can NOT generate more power from an internal combustion engine than the electricity it took to make the Brown’s Gas. This is because internal combustion engines are only 25%-30% efficient. Example: 100 watts of electricity can make about 98 watts of Brown’s Gas. An internal combustion engine (Using 98 watts of Brown’s Gas) will generate about 25 watts of electricity. And so, 73 watts of electricity was thrown away for absolutely nothing. Better to use the 100 watts of electricity (used to make Brown’s Gas) to directly power an electric motor. The electric motor is FAR simpler than an internal combustion engine and operates at 60+ % efficiency. Having said that, Brown’s Gas CAN increase the combustion efficiency of carbon fuels dramatic
