| Reduce your expenses and simultaneously help | | | | comfortably inside of it. Be sure to retain the |
| the environmentalists. That is the benefit of the | | | | screw on caps form the bottles. |
| Hydrogen Generator which has often been | | | | Step2: Use a sharp utility knife to carefully cut |
| thought as a cleaner substitute for petroleum, | | | | away the wooden casing of the pencil leaving you |
| which will revolutionize the entire automobile | | | | with just the carbon graphite lead shaft. Break |
| industry across the world and the put an end to | | | | the lead into two separate but equal pieces using |
| the everyday tension on petrol prices, rather hike | | | | your knife. |
| in petrol prices, to be more precise. | | | | Step3: Remove the approximately ¼ inch of |
| The result of the hydrogen generator is immense. | | | | insulation from two 12 inch telephone wires using |
| Not only does it produce water on combustion | | | | a stripping pliers before removing 2 more inches |
| which means absolutely no pollution at all but also | | | | of insulation from the opposite ends. |
| enhances the gas mileage. | | | | Step4: Wrap the exposed copper from the |
| A hydrogen generator is already in use in | | | | telephone wire at the 2 inch end around the ends |
| laboratories for the supply of high purity | | | | of the pencil lead and secure in place with a little |
| hydrogen. The hydrogen generated from this of | | | | hot glue. |
| 99.99% purity. They are small in size and weight | | | | Step5: Use a drill to drill holes into the center of |
| generally occupying 1-2 square feet of bench and | | | | the two small pop bottle caps and attach a |
| weighing 30-60 lbs. Few hydrogen generators | | | | 24-inch long piece of plastic aquarium tubing. |
| require the addition of caustic solution to produce | | | | Secure in place by placing a little hot glue around |
| hydrogen gas but most others require only | | | | both the inside and outside hole perimeter. Once |
| de-ionized or distilled water. Generators that use | | | | dry, replace the caps onto the bottles by |
| only water are more desirable as they reduce the | | | | screwing into place. |
| risks of handling more chemical substances. A | | | | Step6: Place electrodes with wire attached in the |
| hydrogen generator should be constructed with | | | | bottom side of the two small pop bottles using |
| care with proper leak detectors as hydrogen is | | | | hot glue to secure it in place. Put the small bottles |
| highly inflammable. | | | | inside the large pop bottle and hot glue in place so |
| We can easily make a hydrogen generator at our | | | | they cannot move. |
| homes; the procedure for which is given below. It | | | | Step7: Place an aquarium 2 to 1 mixer value into |
| is this concept that scientists want to apply in the | | | | the free ends of the tubing before connecting to |
| manufacture of cars that would be fuelled by | | | | the wires from the electrodes to the correct |
| hydrogen. | | | | terminals on a 12-volt battery. It may be an idea |
| | | | | to label the positive wire "Anode Oxygen" and the |
| Things needed: Scissors, Bottles, Knife, Carpenter | | | | negative wire "Cathode Hydrogen." |
| pencil, Telephone wire, hot glue, glue gun, tubing, | | | | |
| electrodes, Valve | | | | If the above model can be utilized in automobiles |
| Step1: Cut the top off a 2 liter plastic bottle and | | | | then major global issues like Global warming, fast |
| the bottoms off of two 20 ounce plastic bottles | | | | depleting exhaustible sources of energy (Fossil |
| using a pair of scissors. Cut the larger bottle | | | | fuels) can be addressed. |
| enough so that the two smaller bottles fit | | | | |