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Feb. 7-9, 2009 "New Energy for a New America -
Manatee Technical Institute Displays Sat & Sun., Feb. 7 & 8 - Open To The Public!
The non-profit HHO Games & Exposition celebrate the vast potential hydrogen-on-demand (HHO) systems offer: as a cottage industry that will boost employment and help our economy, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and offer a pollution-free solution for the world's environment. Those who change water into gas to drive hybrid cars prove that as Americans, we can do anything we are determined to do!
On Nov. 11, 2008, the first large-scale HHO gathering in history attracted more than 2,500 people and dozens of inventors and vendors to Palmetto, Fla.'s Manteee Co. Fairgrounds, and over four days of events and seminars important knowledge was shared and many new friendships were formed. The goal of the Fall 2008 event - to introduce HHO to the public and to "cross-pollination" of ideas and information - was wonderfully achieved. Now, due to the generosity of the Manatee Technical Institute, we are able to do it again!
The HHO Games & Exposition HHO HOW-TO takes a practical approach to the growth of the HHO industry. For vendors, this event will offer a half-day on Feb. 6 for setup, offer both indoor and outdoor spaces, present new competitors, provide two full days of display time, and spaces will cost less. There is no requirement for liability insurance, although it is recommended.
But it's important to remember the HHO Games are not about an industry, but about a planet. We are here to save our good green Earth from the ravages of fossil fuels, to provide the world's people an inexpensive and universally available source of fuel, and to bring an end to our own 50 years of dependence on foreign oil, which has corrupted our foreign policy, our national objectives and our best hopes for the future.
HHO is a transition technology that will allow tens of millions of Americans to convert their cars into hydrogen hybriods overnight. To accomplish that, we need not 1,000 inventors, but 100,000 - not 30 vendors, but 30,000. That lies ahead for us to achieve.
For clients and visitors, the Feb. 7-9 event will feature free admission to outside displays, free parking, a convenient, well-known location, two full weekend days of HHO vending and displays with two or three how-to seminars each day, and a full day on Feb. 9 of How-To workshops where HHO experts will actually test, assemble and install HHO kits, EFIEs (and EFIE-less solutions) and other hydrogen-on-demand accessories.
To sign up, check out the SIGN UP NOW link above. On that page, click the SIGN-UP - SPACE RESERVATION AGREEMENT link at the top. Scroll to the end of the Agreement, fill out the form and fax it to (941)753-1136 (please call that number first), email it to joe@hhogames.com, or mail it to 4119 61st Ave. Ter. W., 305C, Bradenton, FL 34210. Finally, make your payment for a Vendor space or a Demonstrator space on the SIGN UP NOW page. Inventors need not pay anything but must register for a reserved space.
For the limited number of inventors who sign up in advanceand have original HHO kits or accessories of their own design to demonstrate, there is never a charge to participate. Special inventor spaces are reserved for those who enroll on this site by Feb. 5.
See you at the Games! |
 Eye On The Winter Games... ! Jan. 6, 2009 - One sign that HHO has come of age is the Jan. 16 Grand Opening of the 6-bay IHHO Installation Center by YourWater2Gas founder Barry Holszweig in Clearwater, Fla. Gov. Charlie Crist's press secretary told the HHO Games that he hopes to attend. The center will guarantee drivers a 20% mileage improvement, offer a 60-day money-back guarantee, and is the first of 14 such centers Holszweig is opening in South Florida at the same time. The full kit and installatin is just $499. Barry had one of the best booths at the Veterans Day show. We wish him good luck! Jan. 6, 2009 - A spectacular display by HHO Games & Exposition Grand Prize winner Jim Tarantola is set for the 2009 HHO Games in Bradenton, Fla., Feb. 7-9. Among the attractions will be a remote-controlled, 5.5-ft. HHO-powered P-60 Warhawk model airplane with a 5.5-ft. wingspan and a 3-ft. Everglades-style Airboat, along with a 3-ft. miniature of Jim's extremely rare 1969 Chevy K-26 pickup, also be on display. But the big attraction is the installation of an HHO dry cell on a full-sized semi truck! Jim explained that the driver - like many - is facing tough times and needed a helping hand, so the kit and installation will be free. Jim is also showing his 2002 KMT 640 Super-Dupe motorcycle and a 2005 F250 6-liter diesel pickup [using two dry cells - one for idling, and the other for towing and heavy acceleration) and several other vehicles including his HHO-powered 5.7-liter 2008 Toyota Tundra with crew cab. What a showman! Jan. 6, 2009 - Want to do us a big favor? Go to the hhogames.com Website, hit the MEDIA KIT button at the top of the page, and email, fax and hand-deliver the Press Release there to every media outlet, fleet manager and friend you can. Let me know what you've done to publicize the HHO Games and we'll mention it here. Thank you very, very much for the help! Jan. 6, 2009 - We've gone upscale! Lisa Fernandez of Tierra Verde, Fla., is showing up in her HHO-powered "tiki-style" Chilly Willy Shaved Ice & Gourmet Ice Cream truck fresh from the latest Space Shuttle launch (where she is the official ice cream vendor) and en route to the Daytona 500. Lisa will be sharing 20 percent of her profits with the HHO Foundation. Jan. 6, 2009 - The Comfort Inn on US 41 in Sarasota, about 5 miles from the HHO Games at MTI, is again offering a special $95.99 rate for HHO Games visitors. That's $35 off the normal Winter rate, with high-speed WiFi and a free breakfast included; the rooms are very, very nice. Call Melanie at (941) 351-7734 for details. Jan. 6, 2009 - The unsung heroes of the Fall Games were the folks like Ron Fleishman and Gary Dotson, who volunteered to help out with parking, problem resolution, communications and the like - we're grateful to all of them. Would you like to join us as a volunteer at MTI on Feb. 6-9? Please let us know by calling Joe Shea at (941) 753-1136. Jan. 6, 2009 - We're searching for a handful of spectacular vehicles to display very prominently on the front lawn of the Manatee Technical Institute, a space about 200 ft. long and 60 ft. deep. Please let us know if have a semi, large boat, light plane, RV, monster truck or other vehicle equipped with HHO that you want to display. There is a $50 charge and the number of spaces is very limited (this space is not on our SHOW SET-UP page. It's a great opportunity for someone with really big graphics and an amazing vehicle! Jan. 6, 2009 - Let us know if you or your company would like to be among those giving how-to, nuts-and-bolts d4emonstrations of kit assembly and installation. We have a need for people who can actually assemble a cell in front of at least a few dozen people and explain the process step-by-step. If you are selling such kits, it's a wonderful way to present your work to buyers and show them how quickly the HHO Revolution can spread. Jan. 6, 2009 - We need to be reminded about any conversations you may have had with us concerning inventor spaces. Unfortunately, during a long family visit over the holidays, we lost track of our notes on those chats. The spaces are still available as of today, but we need to speak with you again to get names and details. Jan. 6, 2009 - The videos on this site (scroll down) are ready for an update. Please let us know of any really good ones you think would go well with our themes. Commercial videos are fine, so long as they are clear, well-structured and ready to post. Jan. 6, 2009 - The morning began with a call from Julio Figueroa and Efrain Rodriguez of Green Gas LLC, our Best EFIE Kit winners from Orlando, who have signed up for Vendor Space 8 (Bldg. 11) and will be raffling off an $800 HHO kit - including the new Genesis Cell they will debut at the Games - and their patent-pending ECUC (Engine Control Unit Controller), both ready to mount. The funds will benefit the HHO Foundation. They're also doing two detailed how-to seminars. More details soon! Jan. 6, 2009 - A call last night from the popular Mike Lombardi, who is taking Vendor Space 6 (Leatherman) to show off his new EFIE, the product of vlsoe toa year of work by a man who has been workng with HHO since the 1970s! Mike will again be helping us out with a Saturday morning back-to-the-basics seminar called the "The ABCs of HHO" that will share his nearly 40 years of experience with newcomers to the industry. Jan. 6, 2009 - We didn't get to bed until after 4AM, as I updated the site to record the purchase of Quadrangle Spaces 1, 2 and 3 by Hybridgen's Randy Young. "I'm glad to see you're having another Expo. The last one was fun and informative. We made a lot of contacts and have been working with several companies to develop our new line for diesel trucks. We plan to be there to show off our new design, which produces up to 6 liters/minute," Randy told us. Spaces are going quickly, so these may be the last Demonstrator spaces we sell on the Quadrangle. Jan. 5, 2009 - We no sooner opened for business this morning than we got three calls from Vendors wanting to sign up (that makes six so far), a note from Manish coming from India to buy kits, and a San Franciscan named Craig Gold who wants to find a solar-powered HHO kit for his rolling "taco truck" - and to have HHO Games in that "eco-friendly" city. We're looking at L.A. in late June for our next show, but we'd love to do one in the City, too! Jan. 3, 2009 - We're up and running, open for business again, ending a much-deserved rest amid long, welcome visit from relatives over the holidays. Three vendors have verbally committed to the Winter Games so far - most of them past prize-winners - and our talks on the Los Angeles Summer HHO Games are also moving ahead. We'll give you an update on that soon. Dec. 17 - We got a call from Dave Patel of the Howard Johnson's Express Inn, who was concerned because the rate he offered for the Nov. 11-14 HHO Games is not available during the Winter season. However, he is offering a much reduced $59 rate, a third off his usual Winter rate of $89 and the later Winter rate of $109. We apologize for not updating the site more quickly. One visitor let us know he is staying at the Super * nearby, which charged him $89. Dec. 17 - We got really good results from a 2,600-mile roundtrip drive to upstate New York and back from here in Bradenton, Fla. We used 20% alcohol and 80% distilled water at the suggestion of HHO2HHo developer Eddie Lopez to avoid the deep-freeze in the Northeast, and added a few flakes of KOH to the mix when we got to South Carolina, where the weather warmed up unexpectedly and substantially. Curiously, the mileage fell thereafter, apparently because we had not added enough KOH. But with the alcohol/distilled water mix, we got the highest mileage ever on my 2002 Saturn SC-1, 34.5mpg and 382 miles on a 12.1-gallon tank, even with minimal HHO production. The tailpipe emissions smelled almost sweet, so it appeared the HHO was doing its job of reducing emissions while we got high mileage. The check engine light stayed off for 382 miles, or until we passed Washington; it went on as soon as we refilled the tank. Before we put Eddie's kit on last June, we registered 18.9mpg on his handheld dynanometer. We are using the EFIE from GreenGas LLC of Orlando. Dec. 17 - During the trip, I stopped in Cheraw, S.C., which is a prosperous town about 60 miles west of 1-95, to meet with a trusted advisor on HHO issues, Ken Woodham. Ken has tested at least five different vendors' HHO kits, and is very careful about what he recommends for customers of his South Carolina Hybrids. He led us to a new handheld computer reporgrammer available for $350 from www.HHODEPOT.com. This device reportedly reprograms automobile computers through the ODB port like a handheld scanner reads trouble codes. We are anxious to hear from people who havbe tested it! We're also thankful to Ken for meeting with us on short notice, and for introducing us to some of the best Mexican food we've ever had! Dec. 17 - We are issuing a call for seminar leaders at the HHO HOW-TO seminars on Mon., Feb. 9, 2009, at the Manatee Technical Institute. What we would like most is instructors who will build a kit from readily available parts duirng their seminars, while answering questions and providing instructions for later use. Patent attorney Jim Coleman is the first to sign up, for a 9AM session on Feb. 9. Dec. 2 - Just got off the phone this minute with Dr. Mary Cantrell, Director of the Manatee Technical Institute, and she has confirmed for us the dates and facilities for the 2009 HHO Games & Exposition in Bradenton, Fla., to be held on the college grounds and in both the former Criminal Justice Academy and Leatherman Auditorium Feb. 7-9, with setup on Friday afternoon, Feb. 6. The site is located at 5603 34th St W. in Bradenton, a large, quiet town on the sunny Gulf Coast just across the Green Bridge from Palmetto, where the Veteran's Day event was held. The theme of this event is "HHO How-To", and it will focus not just on Vendors but on showing individuals how to create and/or perfect their own HHO Kits and computer solutions. It is intended to be somewhat smaller and more intimate than the first show. Vendors will have less competition and inventors will get more exposure. Dec. 2 - Due to the generosity of the college staff and facilities manager Lisa King, which is not charging us for the site but would like to deserve a substantial donation for their associated MTI Foundation - which funds worthy educational programs at MTI - we will soon reduce the posted Vendor and Demonstrator pricing. Our goal, as always, is to put the technology first, and make it affordable for all! Dec. 2 - We're taking on licensees who want to hold an HHO Games & Exposition in world cities over the months to come. There are variety of options open to licensees, and we look forward to discussing them with capable organizations. Call us (941)753-1136 with your ideas and plans. A large Los Angeles event is already under discussion. Dec. 2 - A call today from Rodrigo Benadon of Argentina, who was unable to make his planned trip to the Veteran's Day HHO Games in Florida but hopes to get here soon to do a radio documentary on on HHO technology. I'm trying to find the right kit and EFIE for his budget - $500, including shipping - that will produce substantial savings and deal with all computer issues during his radio station's trial of the kit. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Dec. 2 - Some substantial progress has been made in the planning for the new HHO Foundation Website by board member Matt Arviko, who has already produced a couple of draft logos of exceptional beauty and quality for the Advisory Board's consideration. We'll alert you when the final product is ready.
Nov. 26 - Our apologies to Olympic skiing gold medalist Josef Polig for misspelling his name in several mentions of his forthcoming trip to the United States to learn how to install HHO kits in snow-grooming equipment for Europe's top ski resorts./FONT>
Nov. 21 - We've agreed to host Olympic gold medalist Josef Polig at our home in Bradenton, Fla., as he studies installation techniques. We are honored and excited to have such a distinguisghed guest! He will be attending the HHO Games & Exposition How-To events, displays and seminars in February. Between now and the end of that event, we will be trying to fit him with the perfect kit for the 12,000- and 6,000 liter snowgroomers on the slopes of Europe's most desirable ski resorts.
Nov. 21 - One of the new advisory board members of The HHO Foundation has sent us a beautiful mock-up of the Foundation logo today. We can't wait to show it to you when it's ready! The Foundation will primarily be devoted to creating a testing, standards and certification process for the HHO industry.
-- From the HHO Archives |
Driven by the soaring price of gasoline and the endless inventiveness of Americans, there is an extraordinary interest growing here and abroad in the remarkable properties of HHO Gas. The gas, also known as HOH, Brown's Gas, hydroxyl or oxyhdrogen, burns cleaner and hotter than gasoline, and as a gasoline additive - or in some instances, all by itself - will soon revolutionize the way Americans live and drive.
Even NASA's Manager of Space Operations, William Gerstenmeier, speaks of the exciting possibility for space travel using hydrogen fuel cells based on water electrolysis. So does former President Jimmy Carter.
On June 13, a Japanese car manufacturer unveiled a car that uses HHO that get 60 miles per quart and runs exclusively on water for mass market assembly, according to a Reuters video news report carried on the CBS financial site MarketWatch. Scientists at Australia's University of Tasmania have produced HHO kits that save diesel users up to 80% of their fuel cost.
HHO gas can even fuel cars that run on air, because they also need some form of ignition to start the engines. One that is coming off the assembly line next Spring from India's giant Tata Industries is a Frenchman's invention powered by compressed air, which can use a HHO kit to provide ignition. It is capable of crossing the United States on a gallon of gas, or even less if HHO is used, and is refilled like a tire with compressed air at filling stations.
An Australian air car seems to work just as well - with a 13 lb. engine! (See video below).
Hollywood celebrities are getting behind hydrogen-fueled cars in a big way. According to the June 14, 2008 edition of theLos Angeles Times, General Motors has hired Creative Artists Agency to attract celebrity test-drivers like Jamie Lee Curtis, and they love the cars. The biggest names in the automotive industry have joined the National Hydrogen Assn., the Washington, D.C.-based group that advocates for all forms of hydrogen-based transport and endorses HHO fuel injection in autombiles.
But, as the Times says, "critics say hydrogen fuel is difficult to store and, at least for now, energy inefficient, since it requires more energy to produce than it provides once it's in the car's tank. Moreover, the process of making hydrogen can create greenhouse gases. And fuel cells are very expensive because they contain precious metals such as platinum and palladium." Or they used to. Joe Shea's observation that hydrogen can be produced with "two spoons and a cookie jar" - literally - was the inspiration for the HHO Games T-Shirt.
All those storage, efficiency, pollution and cost issues are eliminated with HHO Gas fuel cells that use ordinary metals and on-demand rather than stored hydrogen, add only water vapor to the air and do so all at a tiny fraction of the cost of GM's new cars.
And the cat is out of the bag: as of June 15, 2008, there were more than 980 videos to choose from on YouTube, MySpace, AOL and Yahoo devoted to HHO topics, and collectively, they have gotten millions of views. Over 900 kits and accessories are offered under "HHO" on e-Bay, startoing at $59.95.
Later, we will show videos from entrants in the HHO Games, a series of demonstrations planned in Bradenton. We believe the real innovations will come from these inventors, not the bureaucrats at major car manufacturers, for whom a high price point is inevitable in every new design.
Right now, even as the movement is growing by leaps and bounds, many people have not heard how HHO Gas works. Some have been put off by the idea that HHO would require tanks, which it does not, or that inventors are trying to sell them a bill of goods about cars that run on water. Cars powered by HHO Gas almost always also use gasoline, producing large savings in some cases.
And the fuel is never water - it is oxyhydrogen, a colorless, flammable, clean-burning gas familiar to scientists since its discovery in 1866 or earlier.
Just click on the videos to play them. These and others we hope to add (send yours to joe@hhogames.org), can help readers understand fuel cells as they watch them being created.
Some use $10 modchips, EFFI kits and oxygen MAP-sensor extenders to modify or disable car computer programs that can otherwise frustrate HHO's use in newer cars. Most HHO kits come either ready-to-assemble or ready-to-install, range in price from $49 to $750 and average about $225.
Here, though, we want to show the work of home-based inventors whom the future will recognize as pioneers of this brave new industry. You will see the technology being built from scratch, installed and used - and sometimes going wrong. The successes are astonishing. given what Americans are paying for gasoline today. The HHO kiys promise the ordinary man and woman an extra paycheck every month in the form of sav=ings on the gasoline costs. For corporations with big fleets, the savings will quickly amount to the millions - and they're already being used in coventional diesel semis!
There are even portable hydrogen-powered batteries that use only water as fuel. They may soon power the low-energy electrolyzers used in vehicles shown below. Like our HHO on-demand devices, they make it unnecessary to transport hydrogen. Two companies, Millenium Cell and Singapore's Horizon, are producing commercial 25-to-100-watt hydrogen batteries now. Since they need recharging just once a month and are powered by water, the issue of battery drain becomes moot.
Check Google, eNay and YouTube for "HHO" and "hydrogen on demand" - new advances (see the white box below the vehicle videos) are coming every day.
A special note: You may be tempted to leap to the NBC News video discussing a novel type of HHO Gas generator created by John Kanzius, the remarkable inventor of the Kanzius Machine who was recently hailed on "60 Minutes" for perhaps the most important advance in cancer therapy in the past 50 years, albeit one that may have come too late to save his own life. It is worth seeing.
We hope you'll enjoy and learn from all of these remarkable efforts, and realize the power of a new idea to change our world. |
"I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable."
by Joe Shea On July 9, Eddie Lopez of H202HHO installed a 1-liter-per-minute HHO generator in my Saturn SC1, which is said to be difficult to deal with. The real difficulty turned out to be the fact that the engine compartment is nearly full, and there was little space for the 10amp model but Eddie, Gilbert and Peter solved the problem. I now have an excellent device I highly recommend. His generator uses no electrolytes to reduce amperage draw, and he didn't think I needed an EFIE or an oxygen extender. I noticed an immediate improvement in the sound of the engine and the speed of its takeoff from a dead stop. I don't know the gas savings yet, but he pretty much guarantees an improvement of 25-30% and I expect more. We'll discuss mileage gains again after a month of use (Update: On the first 1,4000-mile road test, which began on the Friday following the installation, I saw a 73% improvement. After that, I ran into computer problems. Eddie's shop makes their own EFIE devices for sale on eBay, and on the Internet at http://h202hho.com; they also provide solid telephone support to installers. The HHO generator comes with an on-off switch mounted under the dashboard, and needs about 3-8 ozs. of distilled water once a week after the first month.
by HHO Cells This Australian's video cuts straight to the chase. He is using his well-crafted, compact homemade HHO kit in an ancient Datsun in conjunction with gasoline, and moderates battery discharge with an on-off dashboard switch coupled with an amperage meter. The clarity of his presentation is admirable. He says the arrangement produced a 50% mileage savings over plain gasoline. The Website he mentions is HOHcells.com.
by Aquygen
Denny Klein, a Tampa inventor, has probably done more to bring HHO to the public than anyone, but his first focus on HHO involved building a better, hotter and more gas-efficient welding device. In a televised demonstration, he drove a car 100 miles using just four ounces of water (to produce HHO Gas by electrolysis) and no gasoline (ordinarily, he uses HHO as a gasoline additive). He is the founder and former chairman of Hydrogen Technology Applications, and there's great video from CNN and Fox News on his site about his automotive work.
by John Aarons
Advances in HHO fuel cell technology are most persuasive when they reduce amperage draw and also improve hydrogen production that will endure over time. Avoiding excessive heat production is also key. John Aarons' cell is extraordinary in all respects, drawing one amp or less and producing copious quantities of hydrogen from ordinary cool tap water, with no electrolytes. He uses a 3/4" wide by 7" high stainless steel bar (304 or better) wrapped with a little fiberglass mesh that separates a 24-gauge wire used as the negative electrode. The amperage is low, and HHO production is phenomenal. Aarons says it allows for the use of multiple cells in a small space. Can you hook up 3 in series for enough HHO to fuel a big vehicle? Maybe. Don't give away your SUV just yet!
Cam hydrogen run a car without modifications? Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" sought to answer that question in the most direct way possible. They opened up a carburetor, blew in some hydrogen and let 'er rip. HHO kits do the same thing without the tank, instead producing hydrogen from water electrolysis.
Xogen is a small company with a big mission: cleaning up the world's air and water by removing pollutants through the use of clean-burning oxyhydrogen, a product of simple electrolysis that dissociates the H2O molecule, turning it into a gas. The stable oxyhydrogen gas that is created mixes with regular gasoline. This sophisticated video is an excellent introduction to HHO Gas.
The owners of this Jeep go bonkers when they see the gas savings on a mileage LCD mounted on their dashboard. We don't blame them!
This inventor, located near Mason, Mich., gets 65 MPG out of a Fort Escort with his homemade HHO Gas kit installed. In a second video below, he shows a Saturn installation on the move.
The same inventor, "Smoky Joe," shows viewers where an HHO line can be attached to the intake in a Saturn and to avoid misleading the MAP sensor and to enhance gasoline mileage. In another video (available on YouTube), he shows the same installation trick on a Ford Escort.
This inventor was obviously a skeptic. Only repeated mileage tests convinced him HHO Gas could create a substantial gas savings for him without draining his battery.
An air-only car created by an inventor in Australia seems to work just as well as others - and its engine weighs only 13 pounds.
This demonstrates a homemade HHO kit in a 2004 Hyundai Santa Fe. It's very short, and doesn't tell us much, but does demonstrate the use.
KyHydro's basic video is an exultant look at an HHO installation in a Mercedes. "It works!" he yells in jubilation.
This video offers just a quick look at a system installed in a diesel-powered Ford Escort Turbo.
Not every homemade HHO Gas kit works the first time it's installed, but this inventor found an ingenious solution.
The same inventor tries an HHO kit that demonstrates a running vehicle powered by HHO Gas produced from water, with no gasoline. He does it, he says, by eliminating baking soda for electrolytes in order to decrease the amperage drain on the battery.
John Kanzius, the inventor of the Kanzius Machine, took the world of cancer therapy by storm when it was first unveiled on "60 Minutes." Now he's invented a fuel cell that can run a car on HHO Gas created by burning salt water with radio waves. In this news clip, experts review the HHO device that NBC calls "a happy by-product" of his search for a cancer cure. Experts say he's split water into oxygen and hydrogen, producing HHO by a very different means. It's unclear, though, how much power is needed to produce the radio waves. (Note: this video may be slow to load because it gets tens of thousands of hits.)
The fuel cells built to exploit HHO Gas can sometimes explode if certain precautions, like using flash arrestors or not turning off the kit after turning off the car, are not followed, when too much pressure builds up in some of the containers used. In these videos, laced with some mild profanity, fuel cells explode with intriguing results.
Reminder: Wear goggles while working, and keep lots of paper towels handy!
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