The HHO Update©
by Joe Shea
Founder, HHO Games & Exposition
12:25 AM, Dec. 29, 2010 -- We were delightfully surprised tonight to find that someone had made an anonymous $25 donation to the HHO Games & Exposition, and we are deeply grateful for it. Times have been as tough for us as anyone else, and that has made mounting the Games in February of this year, as now planned, difficult to do. In the past we have had a small reserve to approach the many costs that the Games encounter, and perhaps now we can start building a new one! Anyone else who would like to help may do so by depositing your check or money order at any Bank of America branch to HHO Games and account No. 2290-1537-1165. Your generosity will go a long way toward moving our industry forward at the next HHO Games!
PECOS TWISTER HHO RALLY READY TO RACE TOMORROW IN CARLSBAD, N.M.
9:25 PM, Oct. 7, 2010 -- We got a great bit of news from our friend Rick McKean, whose very successful "Pecos Twister" Rally in Carlsbad last year was a great success right out of the box. This time he has HHO star power, too, in the form of Dab Merrick, who will be leading a seminar. If there's any chance yiou can make it, be there!
Here's Rick's note:
I am almost ready for my 2nd Hydrogen Fuel Rally which begins Oct. 8 on Friday evening in Carlsbad, N.M. We will have a mixer at 7:00PM.
Your friend
Rick McKean
8:35 PM, June 4, 2010 -- We have been told by the Chair of the Manatee Co. School Board, Jane Pfeilsticker - whom many will remember as a speaker at our latest Winter Games - that an HHO kit has been tested on a county school bus and that the results, while not as strong as hoped for, Superintendent of Schools Tim McGonegal told her they were good enough to move ahead with further discussion of equipping the entire 1,000-bus fleet. The school board's buses are all diesel, so sensors would not be an issue. We had a small fundraiser for Jane in late May, and Chip Wall of AquaMiles came as part of the HHO community and made a generous donation, as did our Kim Durocher (she's the great-looking gal that has helped out at the last three or four events) and myself. Please let us know if you would like to help Jane's re-election campaign, as she is one of the few elected officials who has taken an active interest in hydrogen as an alternative supplement to gasoline that cuts emissions and saves gas.
HHO Summer Games May Be Delayed
8:35 PM, June 4, 2010 -- We're really not sure yet, but we may have to delay the HHO Summer Games. First, the Jim Tarantola site did not work out, and then we were unable to get a site at the University of Tampa we'd hoped for. Now time is running short. With the help of Richard Keough, we looked at two asites in Venice, Fla., but one was too expensive and we felt the other mioght be too remote. We also discussed a site in Valdosta, Ga., at the Days Inn there, where we would have access to a larger meeting room, a smaller seminar room, and large restaurant that is currently closed and thus available for use.
We wondered, though, how many of our Florida vendors would go that far for the event for three days, even at prefrerred (and really inexpensive) hotel rates. They currently have sci-fi conventions at the hotel, so there is adequate parking and WiFi is also available. Please let us know if any of you potential Vendors would be willing to sign up for that site.
Kevin West's Pepsi Project Could Realize Stan Meyers' Dream
8:35 PM, May 21, 2010 -- Frankly, when we first heard the bare outlines of the Kevin West project to get support for HHO by being a leader in the new Pepsi Refresh contest, we weren't too excited. But then we saw the article by Sterling Allan and suddenly learned that West is on the verge of replicating the amazing Stan Meyers vehicle that ran completely on water. Stan, one of the real pioneers of HHO, like Bob Boyce and a few others - died under unusual circumstances just as word of his discovery was getting out. Now we understand and share the excitement at HHOINFO over the possibility of realizing the lost technology of Stan Meyers for a world that desperately needs it. We may be able to fulfill that dream and to find relief from the deadly dominance of fossil fuels - and also get it widely publicized via the marketing powerhouse at Pepsi. So all you have to do is hit this link, fill in a little info when you're prompted, and you're done. It's a simple good deed, and if we win, the world will surely thank you for it!
Tampa Will Host 3-Day Summer Games Workshop
8:35 PM, April 24, 2010 -- A three-day HHO workshop will highlight the HHO Summer Games in Tampa July 2 through July 4, as visitors and Vendors alike enjoy a patriotic holiday of the first order in a safe, well-lit, air-conditioned facility. Setup for the show will begin at 5PM on Thursday, July 1, and resume at 8AM on July 2. The seminars and show will go from 9AM to 5PM each day. Vendor rates have not changed since the Bayshore High School 2009 Autumn Games, and at least one Vendor, Richard Keough of Moreco Energy, has already committed to Space 1. An additional building will be opened as needed to accommodate any overflow of Vendors. There will be seminars that take guests through the entire range of HHO issues in the environment of a real HHO R&D facility. Be there! Call Joe Shea at 941-807-2316 or write joe@hhogames for more information.
Chava Energy To Debut Multimedia Presentation At HHO Games/EarthFest 2010
9:35AM AM, April 19, 2010 -- Chava Energy, the company that plans to compete with BlackLight Power in producing a car fueled by fractional hydrogen - capable of getting 1,500 miles on a single liter of water - will bring a top scientist, Jones Beene, and CEO Hagen Ruff to the HHO Games at EarthFest 2010 to debut a new multimedia presentation on their patent-pending system, Ruff said Sunday. Ruff, of Coral Gables, is a key financial backer of the company, which has offices around the globe. It is likely they will be interested in seeing the HHO kits on display because they will use HHO technology to create the hydrogen that their process wsill fractionalize to produce the vast amounts of excess heat that will fuel the vehicle. They plan to have an HHO generator in production this year and a car powered by fractional hydrogen next year, company officials have told us. An article in today's online Bradenton Times on EarthFest 2010 makes mention of the company.
EarthFest 2010 Shapes Up As Big News
Bright House Networks has been giving tremendous support to EarthFest 2010, running 30-second commercials around the clock for the live event at State College of Florida on April 22 from 11AM to 7PM at 60th Ave. W. and 34th St. W. in Bradenton. Only 10 HHO Games demonstrator spaces were made available for the event, and most of those are sold. Show Set-Up starts at 8AM. Contact joe@hhogames for more information.
April 19, 2010 -- We just had a personal visit at our home from Shane Henry of Henry Alternatives, a State College of Florida marketing major who is organizing EarthFest 2010 on April 22, where HHO vendors and demonstrators are going to be showing their hydrogen-fueled hybdrids beside the costly electric models of Toyota, Ford, Honda and other car dealers. There will be a a major media presence there as the school goes for a world record for the most plastic bottles collected. Bright House has been running commercials around the clock for the event (see above). Organizers are flying in a judge from the Guiness Book of World Records, and several tv stations and newspapers are committed to coverage. At least 10 news outlets covered the same effort last year, which fell just short of the record. The top attraction in the HHO area may be Al Suarez and his extraordinary results from kits that are lighter, smaller and cheaper than most, but sometimes - as in the demonstration I got about 6 weeks ago - get as much as a 100% improvement in gas mileage. The HHO industry's true craftsman, Richard Keough of Venice, Fla., is the only Vendor signed up for the event, but other demonstrators include Suarez, Rowley, Walt, George Haile of Aquafuels and several others. There will be a live DJ all day, events just for kids, and the famous IMG sports academy is closing down to send all its young tennis, basketball and baseball stars over to enjoy the festival, and if all works well, a very special guest will be there eo sign autographs. There will be lots of food, free parking and fun.
250 Million HHO PEM Generators Need For Hydrino Engine Market
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2:41 AM, March 23, 2010 -- For HHO developers, the hydrino cell stack from BlackLight Power Co.will mean a market just in the United States for 200 million standard automobile hydrogen PEM cell generators, and perhaps another 50 million for ships, trains, planes, rockets, buses, trucks, heavy equipment and everything else that requires fuel to move. But hydrino engines, which may be in limited production now, and their marriage to HHO PEM cells might take a decade to perfect, but California's Chava Energy expects to have a prototype within a year and to marry it to a hydrino-like cell stack a year or so later. Imagine Henry Ford's first vehicle, the product of years of tinkering before it began rolling off the assembly line, which Ford also had to invent: that is the scale of the challenge to HHO PEM cell developers who want to link up with hydrino cars. The hydrino cars basically consist of a transmission, electric motor, engine control system, a CIHT cell stack (where hydrinos are created) and a hydrogen generator. There is no carburetors nor fuel injection system except for injecting output from the onboard hydrogen generator into the hydrino cell stacks. Because it will be somewhat lighter - and not perhaps not as balanced due to the placement of components - its frame may have to be far stronger than most are now because there's so little space taken up by components under the hood. The weight of the 200-liter cell stack is about 440 pounds, half that of a conventional engine, requiring just a one-liter water reservoir; no conversion is needed, as that liter of water will provide sufficient electricity to power the electric motor for 1,500 miles. The cell stacks will be regenerated by the hydrino fuel. The tires are conventional, as are the dashboard and accessories. The hydrino CIHT stack is expected to cost about $4,600, the transmission $2,000, control electronics $1,800, and electric motors $1,400. All in all, before the frame, dash, trunk, seating and steering components, the car will cost developers about $9,800 each and a basic model could sell in the $15,000-16,000 range. To see a picture of the concept car, go to the BlackLight engineering presentation and scroll to the very last page (Page 14). If you would like to order an engine, please contact me at hydrino@hhogames.com. I suspect a large number of orders will be needed to add to the company's focus, which is now primarily on large hydrino reactors, for which they have more than $600 million in pending contracts and $71 million in private investments.
Who's Coming To EarthFest 2010?
2:41 AM, March 23, 2010 -- The inimitable Al Suarez, Pat Johnson of Seattle, the illustrious Richard Keough and associated of Bo Dubose are among the leading developers and demonstrators expected to show up on April 22, 2010 at the new State College of Florida in Bradenton on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. The HHO Games have been given a 1,600-sq.ft. tent and a single 10'x10' booth for the event, and the college is providing both a power supply and WiFi connection to the HHO Games tent for the occasion. The event is expected to attract about 2,000 pople and maybe many more. The HHO Games is collecting our fees for EarthFest 2010 and will not charge anything above what they charge us for participation. Each Vendor will pay $50 and each Demonstrator $15, which is far lower than organizers are charging some others. You can bring banners and signs, accessories and multiple vehicles. To sign up, email Joe Shea at joe@hhogames and indicate thelevel of participation you wish to have and the amount of space, inside and outside, you will need. Deposit fees to HHO Games Bank of America checking account 229015371165. The deadline for sign-ups is April 20.
Using HHO Generator, Cars With Hydrino Engines Can Get 1,500 Miles Per Liter Of Water, Company Says
4:18 AM, March 21, 2010 -- Hydrino-powered vehicles will travel 1,500 miles on a single liter of water when coupled to an on-board hydrogen generator, which would use just 1% of the power consumed by the Toyota Prius, the BlackLight Power Co. said in engineering papers released March 19. Here's the precise language, which is a little complicated, of the paper issued this past Friday:
In principle, motive power can become untethered to an infrastructure of gasoline, natural gas or hydrogen filling stations required for any ICE based vehicle including conventional hybrid vehicles and conventional hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles. Nor does the vehicle need to bve electrically recharged using utility power as in the case of battery powered electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf, or Tesla Roadster. Beside low cost relative to hydride, electric, and fuel cell vehicles, additional advantages are that there is no pollution including no carbon dioxide, no filling stations are needed; so, costly infrastructure build out is eliminated, the inconvenience of frequent fuel filling or recharging is gone, and performance is not sacrificed.
BlackLight Power Gets $10-Million Investment And A Huge Order For A 750-Megawatt Hydrino Reactor
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1:40 AM, March 21, 2010 -- BlackLight Power, the Cranbury, N.J., company we told you about several weeks ago, announced Friday that it won a huge contract for a 750-megawatt hydrino reactor and an addition $10 million in investments. The hydrino is a fractional state of hydrogen that is created when a heated hydrogen atom is stripped of a photon in its orbit during resonance with BlackLight's proprietary NaH solid fuel catalyst. The stripping process yields incredible amounts of heat that powers a steam turbine to produce electricity. Some hydrinos are reabsorbed into the catalyst, making it self-regenerating, so that it never needs more fuel. One liter of water will produce 2.7 billion Joules of heat energy, the company says. The hydrino reactor, which will power all the Italian factories of a billion-euro diversified plastics and energy company called RadiciGroup and its subsidiaries Geogreen SaP and Geoenergie SaP, is also a future power source for the automotive industry, according to engineering drawings released by the company on March 19. It's the seventh reactor now on order and the first for Europe. My 3,500-word article on BlackLight Power and hydrinos has been viewed on CNN's iReport and in The American Reporter since January and was updated several times since then. I'm also urging my childhood friend, Congressman Rush D. Holt of New Jersey, to advocate for hydrino energy, which was discovered in his district - once the home of Albert Einstein. Thomas Edison worked just 17 miles from BlackLight Power's headquarters. The BlackLight Process is likely to revolutionize the world to the same extent as the work of those men, and Dr. Randall Mills, who discovered the hydrino, has often been spoken of as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in physics. His ideas have opened up a vast divide between quantum and classical theory, and he has proposed a unified theory of both.
The HYPE (Hydrogen Proton Exchange) HHO Generator Offers A 90-Day Money-Back Guarantee, 2-Year Warranty, 6-Liter Output, 20% To 30% Fuel Savings And A Host Of Special Features For OTR Diesels
Here's a glance at the interior of the Hydrogen Proton Exchange HHO generator from AquaFuel, Inc.. The unit has two PEM cells that use titanium anodes for high-volume, high-quality hydrogen production.
10:48 AM, March 13, 2010 -- We were delighted yesterday to finally welcome George Haile, a Dunellon, Fla., man who is Vice President of AquaFuel, Inc. (AFI), the exclusive distributor for the new, American-made, Hydrogen Proton Exchange HHO Generator. Called the HYPE, it's a device created for over-the-road diesel trucks that saves them 20 to 30 percent, and sometimes more, on fuel. Haile carried the 35-lb. unit up to our condominium and displayed it on the dining room table with pride. The unit has several unique features, he explained. First, because it uses a proton exchange membrane, or PEM, it needs no electrolyte, and no one needs to worry about dumping the distilled water contents. Next, with an extra-large fan mounted atop the machine, the unit can withstand even the blazing heat of Death Valley, Calif., where ambient temperatures can reach 129º F. The HYPE typically runs no hotter than 120º F. Third, a computer-controlled chip and other features prevent damage as a result of freezing weather. The unit's self-contained reservoir can freeze solid without being damaged, and there's a heating blanket underneath the reservoir to begin melting the ice as soon as the engine is started. The chip will allow the unit to begin generating HHO at the point when the melted water temperature reaches 70º F. A fourth unique feature is that the unit separately vents the oxygen and hydrogen, rather than combining the two gasses inside the electrolyzer. Many of those elements are visible to the driver on a dashboard display, and unlike with scan guages, he or she won't be distracted by making adjustments to the display. We were particularly interested in the separated gas streams - accessible via two apertures at the top right of the kit - because that feature opens up the possibility that in future designs, the separate outputs can blend hydrogen and oxygen at something other than the standard 2:1 ratio for an optimal burn. For now, the output is consistent, Halie told us, at 4 liters of hydrogen and 2 liters of oxygen per minute. Probably the greatest challenge to existing competitors is the exceptional 90-day, no-questions-asked, money-back guarantee - the best in the industry, I believe. The unit is also covered by the manufacturer's two-year waarranty, which provides that while the client must pay shipping costs ($45 in the United States, currently), all the internal hardware and software for the machine is covered. The unit was invented by Art Jeffs of Utah, and AquaFuel, Inc., the only source for it in America, is headed by CEO "Bo" DuBose. So far, it has been tested on 17 trucks over a year and a half; development costs, we understand, have exceeded $4 million. Yet the principal feature of the HYPE device is none of these things: it is the stability of the device, its resistance to the elements and corrosion, and a probable 8-10-year lifespan that is the real attraction. Nonetheless, it is an expensive device at $9,700, but George and I did a little math with that number. If drivers travel 3,000 miles per week and get 5 MPG, they'll need 600 gallons of fuel a week. At $2.80 a gallon, that's $1,680 a week, and divided by 7 days it's $240 a day. A savings of 25% adds up to $60 a day, $420 a week and $1,800 a month. Thus the purchase price is paid for in just under 5 and 1/2 months - and three of those months are under the 90-day money-back guarantee. The annual savings add up to $14,400 for an OTR 18-wheeler that's booking 150,000 miles a year. It's hard not to win on a deal like that!
Amazing? That's Not The Right Word For What Al Suarez Is Doing
8:05 PM, March 2, 2010 - It's been a long time coming - like 30 years, on a journey toward energy independence that began with propane and has found its fruition in HHO. Many of you will remember Al from the terrific clip on BayNews9 last November when he was a Demonstrator at the HHO Autumn Games. Well, I had the privilege today of watching the scan guage on CoolFuel4You inventor Al Suarez'es 2007 Chevy Duramax Diesel 6.6 truck slowly climb from 0.0 to 30.6 MPG over the space of roughly 50 miles of 70 MPH driving for 45 minutes on Interstate 75, one decimal point at a time. And while I have learned a lot of secrets I can't reveal, I can tell you a little about how he did it - and it's a minor miracle. Al has developed a low-cost HHO kit with an electrolyte I've never heard of - but readily found at Home Depot, though not at Lowe's - using a special kind of plastic and a way-new kind of injection device that actually goes before the turbo in his setup - something few developers will risk (and it's probably not that important, anyway). And from start to finish, he's doing what he's doing on 1.2 amps (he said the meter malfunctioned, and that a later reading pout it at 0.05 amps), a draw that makes the 100 percent mileage gains he demonstrates all the more phenomenal, especially given that he's only producing a volume of about a quarter-liter per minute. Okay, let's recap: He's doubling his mileage in a truck that gets about 16 MPG stock; he's doing it with an electrolyte I've never heard of (and those are few); he's using a new kind of injector that makes a huge difference, and a kind of plastic pipe for the electrolyzer that also is necessary to make it work. It cost less than %100 in materials, and that may be an exaggeration, so it can retail for $200 at a nice profit. I am a witness to this who is still shaking his head in disbelief. I simply could not believe what I was seeing and Al's been seeing it since last September. We're not talking about that read-out on the scan guage that changes every second or so, up and down and all around, but the one that reads it slowly but surely as it climbs from zero. And we ran out of time before it stopped climbing, by the way - 30.6, he says, is at least 4 MPG beneath where the reading was headed. Here's one clue he's permitted me to give you: the plastic pipe is of an expensive (five feet costs $90) but readily available kind that develops static electricity, and he's using that to attract the oxygen from electrolysis to it, so that the HHO doesn't get to the engine in the normal ratio of 2:1 but something closer to 3:1 or greater. Another thing: it only has three plates, including the anode, cathode and one other. He says it's the miracle electrolyte, a drop or two, that makes all the difference, but his injector - also amazing in its simplicity - is also key. A couple of design elements work very well in preventing leaks, and he's got a unique bubbler system, too, in which the color of the fluid changes when it needs a refill. I'm hoping Al, who has signed up for the HHO Games & Exposition at EarthFest 2010, will share a little more with visitors at the Games on Thursday, April 22, at the State College of Florida at 60th Ave. and 34th Street West in Bradenton, from 11 AM to 7 PM, on the 30th Anniversary of Earth Day. It's the kind of auspicious occasion when a development of this magnitude ought to be revealed, but you can write to Al at liftcareinc@aol.com if you just can't wait.
Australian University's HHO Study Is Conclusive: HHO Works!
8:11 PM, March 1, 2010 - Many thanks to Bill Gehrs of Florida Biodiesel in Clearwater, Fla., for an important study by scientists at the Sustainable Energy Center of the University of South Australia. The team of scientists has definitively shown that on-board hydrogen kits substantially reduce most emissions and increase fuel mileage in diesel engines. While that fact has been known to HHO developers for a very long time, there has been very little laboratory study of on-board hydrogen and diesel, as opposed to stored hydrogen and diesel, in the academic world. The study presents a number of problems for developers, however. Accordng to the scientists, the emissions of the worst greenhouse gas, NOx, increases substantially, they say, due to the heat of the combustion process using the higher flame speed and faster burning velocity of hydrogen. Other non-scientific studies, however, have indicated that increased NOx emissions can be avoided by lowering the temperature of the electrolysis unit and maintaining it consistently below 180 degrees F. How that would affect the combustion temperature, however, is unclear. The study also used relatively large amounts of HHO - from 20 to 30 liters per minute - and fairly high voltages. They didn't specify the type of electrolyte they used, or whether they even used one. The fuel savings ranged from 15 percent to 25 percent, which is consistent with the claims of many HHO developers who work primarily with diesel engines and OTR trucks. A 2005 study by sceintists at the University of Tasmania found an 80 percent increase in diesel fuel mileage using an on-board generator in a study funded by an electric utility which subsequently used it on its own trucks and hid it from everyone else.
Here's That HHO-Powered Bike We've Been Raving About
9 PM, Feb. 14, 2010 - We've gone on and on about our excitement over the HHO-powered 80cc bicycle Jim Tarantola of High Performance Fuel Cells in Tampa delivered to the Nov. 21-22 HHO Autumn Games at Bayshore High in Bradenton. Our Manatee County Commission chairwoman Gwen Brown enjoyed a close-up demonstration, and we saw the surprise on drivers on 34th St. West as they saw a bicycle speeding by them at up to 45MPH with its 250MPG hybrid engine. We were impressed by the fact that as Jim Tarantola had set it up, the bike can carry luggage or food, could power a laptop and cell phone, and in 49cc models doesn't require a drtiver's license. One of those who has written us is Josef Polig, the Alpine Downhill Olympic Gold Medalist, who is a member of the Italian Alpine Mountain Biking Assn. We're hoping Jim will bring it to EarthFest 2010 at the new State College of Florida for The HHO Games at Earth Fest 2010 tent display.
The Titanium Revolution Isn't Over
5:30 PM, Feb. 13, 2010 - One of my oldest friends in the HHO world, Ken Woodham of Cheraw, S.C., has slowly but steadily worked his way through most of the top HHO kits on the market. His Carolina Hybrids in Cheraw has looked at all the kits you've read about here and then some, trying them all in the real world and then heading back to the drawing board to look for better ones. Now, it looks like his journey has ended with the success of a titanium-plate kit that is celebrated this month in an important magazine article in Canada's Ontario Trucking News (click on the fourth thumbnail article to the right, and then click on the article to zoom). Ken has teamed up with another S. Carolina man, the South Carolina distributor, to offer the non-freezing titanium kits (an important feature for Canadian users) through Trucking4Green. Knowing what Ken has done in the way of research tells me these new kits are going to make it!
HHO Games Invited To EarthFest 2010, The 40th Earth Day, On April 22
6 PM, Feb. 12, 2010 - Great news! The HHO Games & Exposition has been invited to display and sell at the non-profit EarthFest 2010 on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, at State College of Florida in Bradenton, Fla., on April 22, 2010. The EarthFestr organizers, who were told about us by Manatee Co. School Board President Jane Pfeilsticker, who spoke at the Nov. 21-22 show, will provide a 10'x10' booth and a 40'x40' tent just for us, and they have reduced the rates for both Demonstrators and Vendors to ease the financial burden. Those who sign up with me will be able to show their car and distribute literature for $15, or distribute and sell HHO kits and accessories for just $50. The HHO Games will not receive any income from this event, but our Demonstrators and Vendors will benefit from extensive signage and sponsorship by many community businesses and organizations and The American Reporter, and also from ongoing publicity delivered to local media by the EarthFest organizers. Power will be supplied, and we can arrange seminars for any presenters who wish to give one in the tent. The 8-hour event will draw its attendees from the thousands who attend State College of Florida (the former MCC) and the wider community, and the news crews will also be there to cover the EarthFest effort to make the Guiness Book of World Records by collecting 100,000 plastic bottles in one day - they were very close last year! Please bring all the plastic bottles you can find. Call me at (941) 753-1136, and I will tell you how to register your $15 or $50 entry. We would like to have about 12 very sharp-looking vehicles and the best HHO kits in the state!
Steorn's Orbo "Over Unity" Demo Is A Success this Time
3 PM, Feb. 2, 2010 - The Steorn demonstration of its controversial "Orbo" technology was apparently successful this time. We intended to show it at the Hydrogen Builders Conference, but the projector at the conference facility was apparently shorted out. Moreover, we could not get a WiFi connection to connect to the press conference, as no one present had an air card. I promised that I would provide a link to it, however, and and here it is. We have heard since the conference from at least two potential investors, one relatively small one and another who says he could invest between $20 and $20 million. I have not yet gotten Scott's email, so I have been unable so far to bring him on these conversations. I would like to post some design ideas as soon as I can obtain a secure site to do so. I had a dream about our project in its working form last night, and I'm anxious to share the ideas and images I saw with our team.
A Fine Time Was Had By All
12:15 AM, Jan. 31, 2010 - While we only got a commitment to raise $400,000 from investors (grin) and started a new business and found a CEO that will help us unify some of the best hydrogen developers on the planet, the Hydrogen Builders Conference did enjoy some of the freshest, most delicious sandwiches ever eaten in the Western Hemisphere and talked for eight solid hours about our industry with more enthusiasm - and perhaps realism - than ever. After excellent presentations by Richard Keough, Al Suarez, Efrain Rodriguez and Julio Figueroa, Ed Grimm, Jim Tarantola, Bill Gehrs, myself, Gordon Sheets and Robert Bley - who came equipped with the biggest, coolest-looking remote-controlled "Avian Dispersal Unit" (an HHO blaster) you've ever seen, our developers once again proved they are vital designers of the American Future by choosing a joint project for which a friend of Ed Grimm committed to raise $400,000 or more. It was a tremendous day, and I know I will never forget it. For those who attended yesterday, please see this link for a project overview.
Good Food And Drink For Today's Conference, Courtesy of Two Old Friends
6:15 AM, Jan. 30, 2010 - Just a word of thanks to Bill Gehrs, CEO of Florida Biodiesel, Inc., of Clearwater, and the largest distributor of HHO kits in America, and to HHO enthusiast Ken Wilson of Sarasota, who are donating sandwiches and soda, chips, plates, cups and ice for the today's Hydrogen Builder's Conference. This will be Ken's fifth straight trip to one of our events, and his loyalty and friendship are deeply appreciated. Bill was a generous contributor to the success of the Autumn 2009 HHO Games, and we warmly welcome him back! Along with these gentlemen, we're expecting presentatins by Jim Tarantola, Gehrs, Dan Merrick, Robert Bley, Richard Keough and Sal Suarez, among others, including a special guest from Georgia. However, unless we can find a WiFi connection via a Sprint or Verizon (or any) air card, we may not be able to show the Steorn press conference live from Dublin as we have hoped.
Confirming Observations, Team Of 7 Scientists At BlackLight Power Discover A New State Of Hydrogen Atoms Called The 'Hydrino,' With Vast Commercial Potential And Non-Polluting Properties
>Scientists at BlackLight Power, Inc., check calorimetry devices used to measure how much energy is produced by interaction with a newfound a novel state of the hydrogen atom called the "hydrino." In one test the energy output using hydrinos was "easily" increased from 6 to 30 kilowatts. The discovery has already won BlackLight Power, inc., six utility-company contracts for hydrino power plants worth up to $500 million.
Jan. 27, 2010 - There's a new word in this world; it's "hydrino," and it will change us forever.
In scientific papers of such complexity that few will understand the theory, a team of American, Indian and Chinese scientists have published proof of a new state of the hydrogen atom called the "hydrino" that may soon fuel everything from batteries to interplanetary travel and non-polluting, low-cost power generation plants. More than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles have supported the science, including 14 supporting the theory. Among the scientists who have independently validated the hydrino claims of BlackLight are Dr. Randy Booker, who chairs the University of North Carolina-Asheville's physics department, and Wisconsin University plasma expert, Berkely-educated Prof. John Scharer, Ph.D.
So far, the company has won 51 patents in the world's major energy markets, including two in the United States; 101 more are pending. In the past few months, six utilities using conventional fuel to serve up 7.6 megawatts to their 1 million customers have already ordered hydrino reactors - in deals worth up to $500 million - to generate 8 megawatts of power.
HHO researcher Todd Abernathy of High Performance Fuel Cells in Tampa, Fla., has long argued for the existence of a variant form of hydrogen called "parahydrogen," with properties far superior to common hydrogen, which he designated "orthohydrogen." Along with others, he has sought resonant interactions with hydrogen and oter catalysts at a predictable frequency to achieve what would appear to be a hydrino interaction when occurring with BlackLight's powdery solid fuel.
Abernathy will be at the Hydrogen Builders Conference at the Sarasota headquarters of the New York Times regional newspaper, the Sarasota Herald Tribune, on Saturday, Jan. 30.
For a complete version of this story, seeThe American Reporter.
The Jan. 30 Hydrogen Builders Conference Is On!
Jan. 25, 2010 - Good news! Our use of the beautifully-appointed Community Conference Room on the ground floor of the all-glass, super-modern Sarasota Herald Tribune office at 1741 Main Street, Sarasota, has been approved, and there are currently a decent number of hydrogen builders and others signed up for the event on Saturday, Jan. 30, from 9 AM to 5 PM. Due to a bad case of bronchitis and a back problem, and uncertainty about the site, we have not returned calls over the past two weeks. Please accept my apologies. It's my estimate we've gotten the number of attendees down to about 40, which is what the room is being set up for (maximum is 120), and about all we want to have. We hope there will be some media there to look at your familiar and novel applications for hydrogen and HHO. The tables will be organized cafe-style, and we'll be serving refreshments throughout the day, allowing for a free interchange of ideas as well as technical support - audio, projector, screen and whiteboard) for those who wish to present their projects. Please let me know at 941-753-1136 if there is a special project you would like to talk about. Due to the short time constraints, registration is no longer required but would be helpful for organizing purposes. Jim Trantola, Richard Keough, Dan Merrick and Sal Suarez are among the featured speakers. Also, if you know of any other investors who are interested in this technology, please have them come or call us. We expect to see home heating applications, a hydrogen-based electrical generator, a hydrogen torch and even some plasma technology in addition to automotive applications. We also hope to stream live video from the Irish "over unity" development firm, Steorn, which plans to unveil and prove its system at 1600 GMT this Saturday in Dublin.
Our Thanks To Harry Williams
Jan. 6, 2010 - Our warmest thanks to Harry Williams, whom we first met at the July 2009 HHO Games at the University of South Florida, for his heads up in a phone call today about our Hydrogen Builders Conference. Although the text underneath eventually provided the right date, Harry spotted a major typo in the headline. We were advertising the date as "January 30, 2009." That date being long gone, we can understand why so few registrations for either Vendor or Investor slots have come in so far. I'll let you know shortly if it appears the event is going to be worth the trouble now that at least some of our candidate Vendors think it's probably over.
Sealand Environmental Will Install HHO Kit, Other Products On The Discovery Channel's 'Time Bandit'
The Time Bandit, the famous fishing boat used on The Discovery Channel's popular "Deadliest Catch" show since 2005, will have Sealand Environmental HHO generators and other company gear installed on it after Sealand's Jeff Steele and his partners met with the boat's owners in Homer, Alaska, recently. The company won the Best Marine HHO Kit and Best Display awards at the Nov. 21-22, 3009 HHO Autumn Games. UPDATE: Jan. 4, 2010 - Sealand got another terrific write-up with a really big picture - and all in big type - in the McClatchy Newspapers local daily, the Bradenton Herald, which has been very kind to us, too!
Dec. 16, 2009 - Sealand Environmental, a prize-winner for its Best Marine HHO Kit and Best display at the 2009 HHO Autumn Games, has captured global attention this morning with the news that the Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch" show will convert its famous "Time Bandit" fishing boat engines to HHO to reduce emissions and improve fuel effriciency. The ship, one of the best-known boats in the world now, will also use a variety of the company's other products to save money and wear and tear on the vessel. The story ran this morning in the Sarasota Herald Tribune, which is part of the New York Times regional group of newspapers. Marine fuel is costly, and HHO can save boaters up to 40% of their expense. Check out Sealand products here. Congratulations to Jeff Steele and his partners at Sealand!
First Hydrogen Builders Conference Is Free To Industry
Dec. 15, 2009 - Are you working on HHO-based applications such as toxic waste torches, welding equipment, steam boilers, home heating units, stationary power generation and on-demand devices for bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trucks, boats and forklifts? If so, you belong at the January 30, 2009, HHO Games & Exposition-sponsored Hydrogen Builders Conference in Sarasota, Fla. This all-day conference, starting at 8 a.m. and going until 9 p.m, will brng together some of the greatest minds in hydrogen for cross-collaboration, joint venture opportunities and one-on-one training, development seminars and free-form discussions of the future of HHO and hyrdogen. We seek additional sponsorship from joint venture firms who will take our ideas to the next stage. Stay tuned for more information about this free event that will have enormous impact on the pace of advances in the HHO and hydrogen industry! The conference is free to all hydrogen and HHO builders, developers, inventors and scientists. Displays are also invited at no charge. Pre-registration is required. The location will be announced; our preferred site is the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Sarasota, Fla. Please call HHO Games founder Joe Shea for more information at 941-753-1136.
Dual Fuel HHO, Alabama Hybrids Take Top Honors At 2009 HHO Autumn Games
Dr. Gwen Brown, chair of the Manatee County Commission, found herself absorbed and interested as Dean Crouse explained the working of HHO at the 2009 Autumn HHO Games in Bradenton, Fla.
Nov. 23, 2009 - Developers Dean Crouse and James "Hutch" Hutchinson of Dual Fuel Cell / Alabama Hybdrids, Bill and Alan Gehrs of Florida Biodiesel, Jim Tarantola and Todd Abernathy of High Performance Fuel Cells and HHO craftsman Richard Keough of Venice, Fla., took top honors at the HHO Autumn Games that ended yesterday at Bayshore High School in Bradenton, Fla., Games organizers said. See the PRIZES link at the top of this page for other winners. "Dual Fuel Cells had a dramatic display, solid HHO kits, new water ionizers and a superb truck kit, along with their PetronPlus demonstration, and when considered as a whole they were easily the most impressive people at the show," organizer Joe Shea said. "Florida Biodiesel's HEC Diesel Truck Kit was also a superb technology with huge potential," Shea said. "Sealand Environmental was a real crowd-pleaser with their marine kHHO kits and an improvement on the Segway personal transporter, and also had a great display. Jim Tarantola and Todd Abernathy outdid themselves with a 45MPH, 250MPG HHO bicycle, which doesn't need a driver's license," he said. "Finally, Richard Keough's handcrafted HHO kits remain an amazing achievement in this day of flawed assembly line production."
Bay News 9 Tells The World About The HHO Games
Nov. 22, 2009 - Wow! A wonderful Bay News 9 report on Saturday's Opening Day of the HHO games ran every hour all Saturday night - we saw it six times between 5 and 11 PM - (Update: it wasstill running on Sunday at noon!) Newcomer Al Suarez of Tampa was highlighted in the 2:13-minute report with a homemade HHO kit that took his big black Duramax from 16 MPG to 38MPG, he said. Also featured were Dean Crouse, the Florida Biodiesel tent and me. We also got visitors from Bayshore High's Parent University program, thanks to a good word from Principal David Underhill. But perhaps one of the most exciting comments was by Dr. Jane Pfeilsticker, President of the Manatee School County School Board, who talked about the need for educators to address the hydrogen industry by supplying students educated in Manatee County who can fill jobs in the burgeoning HHO industry here. Later, she told us the Board's Committee On Sustainability, which she also chairs, will be looking into the use of HHO on the county's hybrid school buses. Many of our visitors attened all of the seminars Saturday, and there were raves for talks by YourWater2Gas chief Barry Holzsweig and High Performance Fuel Cells' Jim Tarantola. Many were excited by inventor Dan Merrick's discussion of his electrolysis kit that "reforms" gasoline to get hydrogen, and his comments about how refineries separate gas with steam and hydrogen and add the sludge that remains to gasoline supplies in order to keep users from reforming it. ExxonMobil has a gasoline reformer ready to enter the market next year, as do several other companies. Merrick's technology is the first we know of since the JPL study in 1973, which used a different technique and didn't have to cope with sensors as HHO does. Manatee County Commission Chair Dr. Gwen Brown will speak at 1 PM Sunday; she has already asked county departments to look into the possible use of HHO in the county's fleet. Among other talks is a presentation scheduled for 2 PM by Ben Narvaez on the software program created by Dayton, Minn., programmer Tim Huttner, which can be installed and then fine-tuned over the Internet by any vehicle owner with a laptop and an Internet connection in their car (i.e., an air card).
The Fourth HHO Games Gets Underway In Bradenton
Nov. 21, 2009 - As we welcomed visitors from near and far, the HHO Autumn Games got underway with Hybridgen, Florida Biodiesel, Dual Fuel HHO, Green Gas LLC, Moreco Energy, Amsoil and Sealand Environmental on hand to help us set up the newly-christened Vendor Cafeteria at Bayshore High School. Deane Corneil, one of our great volunteers, did yeoman work getting the cafeteria straightened out, the audio up and running, our signs posted and the our 10-ft. banner placed. We also had the please of meeting Rick and Cat of the Maintenance crew, and were privileged to chat with Baron Coombs, Bayshore High School's impressive vice-principal. Let the Games begin!
Bright House Channel 9 Runs HHO Games Story - 19 Times!
Keels 'n Wheels Features The HHO Games On Its Cover
Nov. 19, 2009 - The "bible" of South Florida's boating and classic wheels community, the 23,000-circulation Keels 'n' Wheels, has touted the HHO Autumn Games on its cover and in article inside on P. 15. Publisher Jim Dygert is a great advocate for a green future who has been an enormous help to our industry through his advertising of HHO club meetings and HHO Games events. In other news:
Jim Tarantola And A 'Super Bike' Set To Star Again At 'Family-Friendly' HHO Games
Nov. 19, 2009 - The online Bradenton Times called today to let us know they're featuring the HHO Autumn Games as the "family-friendly" event of the weekend for Sunday, Nov. 22. We couldn't help but tell them about the "Super Bike" Jim Tarantola is bringing down from Tampa. It was developed for his sons Jamie and Joey on the base of a "beach cruiser," one of those standard bicycles with the fat tires and butterfly handlebars you rent at the beach to cruise up and down and do your basic people-watching. Jim started with that humble base and hooked up a standard 2-stroke, 85cc engine alsong with an HHO kit. The HHO kit has extended the range of the engine from the standard 100MPG to an astounding 250MPG, and the motor's magneto will not only power the lights - but also your laptop! Best of all, maybe, because the original machine was a common bicycle, Jim says, it doesn't require a driver's license. And get this: until he put a governor on the motor so his kids could ride it around the neighborhood safely, he was speeding around Tampa at 45 MPH! Jim's a super inventor, and his kits are a standard for the industry. His talks Saturday and Sunday about the cutting edge of HHO development are likely to be the best-attended of the show. You might also want to ask him what the Texas emissions peole are sayng about his zero-emission kits. Jim's entourage will be headquartered in HHO Spectacular Space No. 3.
Tampa Tribune's South Shore edition Features Great Piece On HHO Games
Nov. 19, 2009 - The daily Tampa Tribune's popular South Shore weekly edition carries a wonderful article by Staff Writer Yvette Hammett that will run through the weekend. Hammett writes that "The games bring developers, inventors and vendors of hydrogen kits for cars, trucks and industry to one place to "cross-pollinate" ideas and advance the technology that can save drivers from 30 percent to 50 percent on gas or diesel," and notes that HHO's "uses [are] as varied as hazardous waste incineration, drinking water, gas supplement, cooking stoves and welding." She singles out Petron Plus for mention, too, saying, "Among the items on display will be a motor that uses an oil supplement so effective that it will run all day without oil. Its inventor claims that a 12-ounce bottle of the stuff protects engines from heat produced by hydrogen for years."
3 New Vendors Are Latest To Sign Up For Games
Nov. 18, 2009 - Three more vendors from California and Florida have signed up for the fast-approaching 2008 HHO Autumn Games at Bayshore High School in Bradenton, Fla. Newcomer Valery Puniy of Sacramento, Calif., is flying in with his modified Joe cells, while veteran Barry Hozsweig of Clearwater-based YourWater2Gas is on his way with the highly successful Fuel Genie, a kit that may soon find its way onto hundreds of vehicles in a large county fleet. And now what may be the largest - and many say the very best - marine HHO dealer in the country, Sealand Environmental of Bradenton, has signed up for three spaces in the Vendor Cafeteria and will show kits that are engineered for use on both marine and automotive engines, starting at $699.
Bradenton Herald And Online Rival Bradenton Times Both Have Great Stories About The HHO Games
Nov. 16, 2009 - The venerable Bradenton Herald, a McClatchy daily newspaper, has a terrific story this morning about the upcoming Nov. 21-22 HHO Games & Exposition at Bayshore High School. Carlo Mario Nudi, who has written very knowledgeably about us in the past, features the HHO Games beneath a front-page banner headline in a Special Report for the paper's Local/Business section. Nudi puts the Games in the context of the debate over oil-drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, and quotes me saying, "The fact is we can transition to hydrogen in two years because the HHO kits are small and relatively inexpensive. So why invest in oil drilling that could endanger our beaches and tourist economy?" Nudi also writes about Nazeer Bhore's on-board gasoline hydrogenator for ExxonMobil (we're still hoping to hear he's on his way to the Games). He also interviews Moreco Energy developer Richard Keough of Venice, Fla., winner of the 2009 Summer Games "Best Craftsmanship" prize. Richard says, "I’ve been to every [HHO] game. What I like about it is a bunch of guys getting together to compare notes, and also there are great speakers."
Green Energy Hybrid Technology Inc. And Alabama Hybrids Will Debut New HHO Truck Box And Offer A Private Post-Games Installation Seminar
Nov. 6, 2009 - Nov. 6, 2009 - Green Energy Hybrids Technology and Alabama Hybrids Systems USA will debut their newly-formed joint venture and its advanced HHO Truck box in HHO Spectacular Space No. 1 at the Nov. 21-22, 2009 HHO Autumn Games, they told us today. The box, which features multiple safety devices, is capable of quick change-out for servicing, ideal for fleets, and features air cooling, a water pump for cooling and freeze resistance, built-in heaters on the tanks, kit and tubing to withstand -25 F. below and to -40 F. with add-on options. The HHO Truck Box runs on 4 amps to run pumps and heaters if needed when the unit is shut down , providing standalone capability for remote operation when truckers don't have electricity available. The company will also offer on-site emissions testing for vehicles equipped with HHO kits. In another first for the HHO Games, Green Energy Hybrid Technology will be holding a basic HHO installation seminar on Monday, Nov. 23, at the Quality Inn breakfast lounge. The $75 seminar will go from 10 to 4 P.M., and a presentation binder for participants will be handed out for future reference. A team of company representatives and executives are coming from Alabama, Delaware and Florida to offer HHO kits for sale for smaller vehicles and take orders for the truck box, which frequently earns 40% or more better mileage for cars and semis. One of the extraordinary displays will be a 6-cylinder Corvette motor from the 1950s using Petron Plus, an oil supplement that allows the motor to run all day without oil, which is presented by the master distributor for Petron Plus in Florida. The new company will also show upper-cylinder conditioner products for HHO users that guarantee high-temperature hydrogen burning will never damage engines. Interested HHO Dealers will be able purchase Petron Plus at the event, the company said.
On-Board Hydrogen Generators From MIT And ArvinMeritor Cut Gasoline Consumption, Auto Expert Says
Nov. 10, 2009 - An automotive expert who writes extensively on gas-saving technological innovations praises a gasoline "reformer" developed by MIT's automotive labs and ArvinMeritor, a tech company that has joint-ventured with the Cambridge, Mass.-based MIT. According to Bob Brooks, and as we reported last year, the research points toward the kind of 2004 announcement by the DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory made similar claims for a cubic-foot-sized steam reformer it developed that could save 50% on gasoline, but that has not materialized. Now comes MIT and itds partners with a technology that appears to be close to reaching the mass market. "There's a new technology that utilizes a fast-response on-board reformer to generate a small amount of hydrogen from gasoline. This hydrogen is added to the engine's normal air/fuel mixture. Engines designed to run on a mix of hydrogen/gasoline can see a fuel-economy gain of 20 to 30 percent with no requirement for control of harmful NOx emissions, oxides of nitrogen," writes Brooks, a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and a veteran automotive journalist. The savings have generated interest from automakers because they are required to boost mileage by 10% on their vehicles by 2010. As we have long argued here, Brooks says "this system may provide a cost-effective alternative to fuel-cell technology and traditional gasoline- and diesel-combustion engines. It's possible that hydrogen-boosted engines could bridge the gap between today's gasoline-powered vehicles and the fuel-cell vehicles of the future." He cites the high cost of other approaches versus the present availability of the MIT reformer at less than half the $3,000 cost to consumers of buying a diesel option in cars. He says a prototype hydrogen-boosted engine is being tested in a V6 SUV and that marketing may begin in 2010. "None of these [non-hydrogen] technologies can boast all of the advantages of the hydrogen-boosted engine, namely dramatically increased fuel economy, minimal emissions control, and overall cost-efficiency," he says. Missouri HHO developer Dan Merrick is coming to the HHO Games Nov. 21-22 in Bradenton to show his own gasoline reformer. That is an electrolyzer married to standard HHO devices, and those already get him 64MPG in a Prius III hybrid EPA-rated at 42MPG. That car also uses the Tim Huttner software we've written about earlier. The DOE has been touting such devices since 2001 with no apparent implementation.
Tropical Storm Ida Hits Pensacola With 44 MPH Winds, But Tampa Bay Area Unscathed
Nov. 10, 2009 - At 2:10 A.M., the once-powerful Hurricane Ida has dwindled to a tropical storm 500 miles northwest of Bradenton, site of the HHO Games. The storm has lashed Pensacola with 44 MPH winds and caused storm damage, but to the south there is only rain, light flooding and 20 MPH winds at the beach, where kayaking and parasailing have been suspended for the past five days but kite-sailing is booming. Ida approached late in the hurricane season from the east coast of Central America and Mexico and killed 130 in mudslides and floods in El Salvador. But 2009 marks the third straight year Florida has been spared from hurricanes, while winds in the Gulf of Mexico high winds endangered a Chevron oil rig 80 miles south of New Orleans. Authorities feared it might fall into the Gulf and two men were evacuated from the rig on Monday. Weather for the HHO Games, meanwhile, is likely to be sunny and in the high '70s with little humidity and no rain - perfect for hitting the beaches on a pre-Thanksgiving mini-vacation. One visitor, HHO Hero's Pat Johnson, who is coming from the State of Washington, says he's going to combine business with home-hunting on the Gulf Coast, where condo and home prices are still lagging behind 2003 levels after a long, enormous boom.
Genetic Engineer Dr. Jane Pfeilsticker, Professor And Manatee School Board Member, To Speak At HHO Games
Nov. 9, 2009 - Manatee County School Board member Jane Pfeilsticker will be at the HHO Games on Saturday, Nov. 21, to talk about the need for educational support for the technological developments reflected in the many hydrogen-related activities at the HHO games, she told us today. Dr. Pfeilsticker, a professor at State College of Florida and a genetic engineer, is scheduled to speak at 1 P.M.
ExxonMobil Senior Technology Consultant Dr. Nazeer Bhore Impressed By The HHO Games
Nov. 9, 2009 - Dr. Nazeer Bhore, the senior strategic planning consultant for technology at ExxonMobil, said to today he was honored by our invitation to the Games and our "interesting and exciting" Website, so he has asked permission from the company to participate. The honor is all ours. We are very hopeful he will attend!
Joe Shea To Appear On WWPR-AM On Friday, Nov. 13
Nov. 9, 2009 - As founder and organizer of the HHO Games, I've been invited to go on drive-time radio serving Greater Tampa Bay on Friday to talk about our current Games on Friday's "It's Your Gavel" show. The show can be heard from 8 A.M. to 9 A.M. from the north side of Tampa to near Venice, Fla., about 80 miles to the south, at 1490 on the AM dial. I will make a second appearance during the week before the Nov. 21-22 Games.
Nov. 9, 2009 - Manatee County School Board member Jane Pfeilsticker will be at the HHO Games on Saturday, Nov. 21, to talk about the need for educational support for the technological developments reflected in the many hydrogen-related activities at the HHO games, she told us today. Dr. Pfeilsticker, a professor at State College of Florida and a genetic engineer, is scheduled to speak at 1 P.M.
Story Says HHO May Generate More Wealth Than The Internet
Nov. 9, 2009 - In a story for the American Reporter, which sponsors the HHO Games, you can read today about how the latest advances in this industry may soon produce an Internet-sized boom that can generate as much or more wealth than the Internet. The story talks about Nazeer Bhore and the ExxonMobil on-board hydrogen generator, the long history of HHO fuel and the advances that could make gasoline obsolete. For President Obama, it may be the dessert he richly deserves after taking on the challenges of health care, two wars, our broken economy, a damaged environment and more in his first 11 months. Let me know what you think at joe@hhogames.com. You can see the story via the MEDIA link at the top of the page.
Smart Scarecrow And Smack Debate Titanium Issues
Nov. 6, 2009 - Smart Scarecrow, one of the top developers in the HHO industry, featured an array of new products for managing car computers from developer Thomas Allgood on his latest show, first broadcast on HHOINFO.com last night. The outstanding 55-minute show also features Smart Scarecrow's interview with Smack, the developer of the original Smack Booster who has switched technologies to the coated titanium HHO kits that are making their way into the industry. He offers some compelling information on why the titanitum kits produce more orthohydrogen than parahydrogen and thus needs less gas to get mileage results, which in turns means no need for EFIEs and other computer controllers. He emphasizes, however, that it must be constructed properly. He points out flaws in the kit design by Safe HHO for pioneer Larry Jarboe's car (see video when posted). Titanium also doesn't produce hexavalent chromium, which can be measured in HHO with test kits from Hatch Labs, Smack says. He plans to produce open source schematics for all of his new coated titanium kits, and reveal where users can get HHO plates at a bargain price. Smack also talks about how he joined Sean Drazin of Safe HHO to work together on coated titanium kits and of their recent battles against each other, mostly over Sean's personality issues. Now the two may be headed to court, he said. Both men are invited to the HHO Autumn Games to tell their side of the story and show their kits. One or more other titanium vendors, including Denis Lee of Renton, Wash. (not the crook!), will also be at the show. We invited Smart Scarecrow to the Games when we met for an interview (see video when posted) in Orlando at the Green Gas LLC show and are hoping he will come.
Green Energy And Empire Hybrids Will Debut New HHO Truck Box And Offer A Private Post-Games Installation Seminar
Nov. 6, 2009 - Green Energy Hybrids Technology and Empire Hydrogen Systems USA, will debut their newly-formed joint venture and its advanced HHO Truck box in HHO Spectacular Space No. 1 at the Nov. 21-22 2009 HHO Autumn Games, they told us today. The box, which features multiple safety devices, is capable of quick change-out for servicing, ideal for fleets, and features air cooling, a water pump for cooling and freeze resistance, built-in heaters on the tanks, kit and tubing to withstand -25 F. below and to -40 F. with add-on options. The HHO Truck Box runs on 4 amps when the unit is shut down to run pumps and heaters if needed, providing standalone capability for remote operation when truckers don't have electricity available. The company will also offer on-site emissions testing for vehicles equipped with HHO kits. In another first for the HHO Games, Green Energy Hybrid Technology will be holding a basic HHO installation seminar on Monday, Nov. 23, at the Quality Inn breakfast lounge. The $75 seminar will go from 10 to 4 P.M., and a presentation binder for participants will be handed out for future reference. A team of company representatives and executives are coming from Canada, Alabama, Delaware and Florida to offer HHO kits for sale for smaller vehicles and take orders for the truck box, which frequently earns 40% or more better mileage for cars and semis. One of the extraordinary displays will be a large motor using Petron Plus, an oil supplement that allows the motor to run all day without oil, which is presented by the master distributor for Petron Plus in Florida. The new company will also show upper-cylinder conditioner products for HHO users that guarantee high-temperature hydrogen burning will never damage engines. Interested HHO Dealers will be able to set up distributorships with Petron Plus at the event, the company said.
ExxonMobil Engineer Nazeer Bhore Gets Personal Invite To Autumn Games
Nov. 3, 2009 - Dr. Nazeer Bhore, a senior planning consultant for ExxonMobil and star of thousands of the company's commercials for its on-board hydrogen generator, has received a personal invitation to speak and display the XOM generator at the 2009 HHO Autum Games in Bradenton, Fla. During a conversation with us last week, Mr. Bhore said the on-board hydrogen generator, which "reforms" gasoline to produce lightly-pressurized hydrogen and can save up to 80% on fuel mileage, has been a team effort that has been underway for 10 years. If he can come, he is invited to display the kit and to offer Q&A-style seminars on the technology on both Saturday, Nov. 21, and Sunday, Nov. 22.
Gwen Brown, Chair Of County Commission, Will Greet Gamers
Nov. 3, 2009 - The Chairwoman of the Manatee County Commission, Dr. Gwen Brown, will greet attendees at the Nov. 20-22, 2009, HHO Games & Exposition Autumn Games, she said Monday. Dr. Brown, who earlier this uear asked county agency officials to investigate using HHO on the county fleet, has served on the County Commission since 1994, served six times on the Board of its Community Redevelopment Agency and chaired it in 2005, and last year was Chair of the Manatee County Port Authority. A compelling speaker and an advocate for alternative energy, she is a Professor of Early Childhood and Management at the State College of Florida, the state's newest degree-granting college. She is scheduled to talk at 1 P.M. on Sunday, Nov. 21, in the Vendor Cafeteria.
Dateline NBC's HHO Skeptic Eric Krieg Invited To Talk At Games
Nov. 3, 2009 - The skeptic who instigated the flawed Dateline NBC report on fraudster Dennis Lee of New Jersey (not to be confused with titanium kit developer Denis Lee of Seattle!) has been invited to give a seminar on Nov. 21 and Nov. 22 at the 2009 HHO Autumn Games to address his misgivings about HHO, to discuss his work with Safe HHO developer Sean Drazin and a video that resulted, and to hear HHO developers in Bradenton respond to his views. Krieg was vaulted to fame by the Dateline NBC segment on New Jersey con man Dennis Lee, and then jolted by a huge increase in mileage he experienced when Sean Drazin installed his coated titanium kit in a Buick Century that normally got 22MPG. On an 80-mile test run Krieg did a dramatic double-take when he saw a better than 50% increase in mileage over a kitless drive of the same length during his trip. he was roundly criticized by fellow skeptics for breaking with their more-or-less official line as a result of that experience.
Once Again, A Leap Of Faith Is Rewarded
Nov. 2, 2009 - One of the most difficult aspects of putting the HHO Games together is gathering enough money to pay for the facility rental and insurance, and it's always a great boost when it happens. This year, it happened today, when we bought our insurance and paid the full rental fee, a total $1,297.33. We got home from doing so with two dollar bills in our pocket, only to find out that Dean Crouse had just paid off his big HHO Spectacular Space (No. 1) as promised and needed three Demonstrator sites; the phone never stopped ringing after that. Each year, it's a real leap of faith, and yet that faith is sometimes instantly rewarded. We are deeply grateful to a God who loves us so much, who gave us enough free hydrogen to fuel everything on Earth, and whose blue skies and sunshine flood us each day with energy and life itself.
MiniJack II Is An Impressive Small Kit From Asia
Oct. 28, 2009 - Fred Chong, an avid reader of HHO Updates and a developer in Malaysia, sees his country lagging behind in the development of hydrogen-assisted fuel and on-board hydrogen generators. But that's not holding him back. His MiniJack II Fuel Cell is the most impressive small kit we've seen since the tiny Go Green Emissions device displayed by Mike Connolly of Mansfield, Ohio, a prize-winner at the USF 2009 Summer Games. "I'm already in the business of HHO, applying it to reduce fuel consumption to diesel generators up to 1,250KVA and have had very encouraging results of up to 30% in fuel savings. I'm currently building smaller units intended to use for automobiles - passenger cars, trucks, boats and lorries," he told us. The device produces 1.5 liters per minute at 13 amps, Chong said (see video).
Two Hotels Offer Special $49.95 Rates At HHO Autumn Games
The Howard Johnson Inn at 65th St. and US Hwy 41, the Super 8 across the street, and the Quality Inn a block away - all with WiFi and in-room amenities like microwaves, refrigerators and a free breakfast for guests, have offered 2009 HHO Autumn Games visitors special room rates of $49.95 per night. Quality Inn offers a hot breakfast. Photo: HHO Games.
WWPR's Mitch Mallett To Broadcast From 2009 HHO Autumn Games
WWPR radio talk-show host Mitch Mallett, a mainstay of the Tampa Bay radio scene for four years and a veteran of three HHO Games events, will be at the 2009 HHO Autumn Games on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, to talk about the industry and some of the amazing kits that will be on hand. Photo: HHO Games.
WiFi Access Won't Be Available At Autumn Games
Beautiful in Blue - Bayshore High School's main entrance appears as though seen through a blue filter in this shot of the apron and entry, but the school is blue and a blue sky behind it and Florida's sun created something of an optical illusion. Photo: HHO Games.
Hybridgen, 2009 Summer Games 'Best of Show', Is Back For Autumn
This is the prize-winning HHO kit from Hybridgen that has been successfully mounted on the giant Sysco food wholesaler diesel trucks and refrigeration units. Clearwater-based Randy Young and Ed Grimm signed up Friday - just under the wire to avoid price increases that go into effect at midnight tonight. Photo: Hybridgen, Inc.
TRAGEDY STRIKES TARANTOLA CLAN; PATRIARCH IN FATAL CRASH; 2009 AUTUMN GAMES ARE NOW DEDICATED TO HIM
Jerry Hager of Zephyrhills, grandfather of James and Joseph Tarantola, the prize-winning sons of famed HHO developer Jim Tarantola, died of a stroke after an off-duty ambulance swerved to avoid a stopped car and hit his Ford F-150 pickup head-on Monday night, breaking one boy's collarbone and leaving the other with lacerations on his face. The three were enroute from a Boy Scout troop meeting; Hager held a coveted "Silver Beaver' medal for his long commitment to the Scouts. James and Joseph will recover soon, but the tragedy has forced Jim Tarantola to drop plans for his HHO Spectacular site. He and his sons will be at the Games, however, and have 10 Demonstrator spaces reserved for their distributors and installers. Services for Hager will be Saturday. Photo: St. Petersburg Times
Florida Biodiesel, Largest HHO Distributor In America, Takes HHO Spectacular Space No. 2
The HEC=1 pumps out 5 liters per minute and a single unit can power a 10-liter engine, says Florida Biodiesel CEO Bill Gehr, who has signed the company up for the Nov. 20-22 HHO 2009 Autumn Games. The unit is the single best-selling HHO kit in America with sales through 133 dealers located in 48 states. Clearwater-based Florida Biodiesel, Inc., is also a major innovator in the biodiesel industry with a host of new inventions to its credit. Photo: Florida Biodiesel, Inc.
A Surge In Sign-Ups For 2009 Autumn Games
Oct. 21, 2009 - Three new Vendors signed up Monday for the Nov. 20-22 HHO Autumn Games at Bayshore High School in Bradenton, Fla., taking advantage of attractive sites in an expanded display area and fees that will increase on Fri., Oct. 23. The new sign-ups included Denis Lee of Seattle-based Energon Research, a maker of coated titanium kits, and Andy Hertel of Renton, Wash., whose company, Olympic Hydrogen, Inc., services the large-vehicle market in Washington State. Other paid sign-ups include Lee Moore of Alternative Energy Development Corp. (AEDC) of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which is offering a new dry cell design in Space 14, and Richard Keough of Venice, Fla., in Space 6, whose powerful kits won the Best Craftsmanship award at the last HHO Games. None of the first three have appeared at earlier Games, although Energon's Denis Lee attended the USF event in July, so display of their kits will be eagerly awaited by HHO fans.
HHO Games Changes Date And Site - A Week And 10 Yards Away
Oct. 14, 2009 - Due to a schedule conflict with the Manatee Technical Institute's Multicultural Weekend, which occupies the front lawn there, we have moved a few yards away to Bayshore High School, and rescheduled for the weekend of Nov. 20-22. We hope this will not prove an inconvenience for anyone; all of our vendors preferred the later date. Unfortunately, we didn't learn of the schedule conflict until 11 days after we had agreed to take the facility. We also face higher costs than contemplated, which means that vendor, HHO Spectacular and Demonstrator space fees not yet made at the current prices will be charged a higher rate - as low as we can make it, but more than the very low rates we had offered to encourage new vendors, inventors and demonstrators to become involved. In the meantime, we will honor the existing 18 reservations at the lower rates if payment has been made or is made by next Friday, Oct. 23. Thanks for your patience with us!
FORTUNE Magazine Hails The Hydrogen Car
Oct. 14, 2009 - An article that came out today in the current issue of FORTUNE challenges the prevailing chatter about hydrogen's role in the immediate future of the automobile. Unfortunately, it's out of touch with the most advanced hydrogen technology. Author Michael V. Copeland points out that Daimler-Benz, the German government and a consortium of German firms are planning to build 1,000 hydrogen fueling stations across the country, while Joan Ogden, a hydrogen expert at UC Davis, says "The automakers are making huge progress. The popular notion that hydrogen is 20 years away - and always will be - is totally off-base." And Copeland adds, "Actually, hydrogen cars don't have a perception problem - most people simply don't think about them at all." But, "One major issue," Copeland writes, "will be figuring out how to produce hydrogen in a clean enough way that it doesn't offset the environmental benefits of driving a car whose only tailpipe emission is water." But the article is terribly off base about electrolysis and other chemical reactions than can create hydrogen on demand. Copeland writes that "while you can produce hydrogen via electrolysis from any source of electricity, including renewable-energy sources like solar and wind, it's most often extracted from natural gas combined with steam, which forms hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The carbon monoxide is then separated from the hydrogen. Hydrogen naysayers will immediately remind you that natural gas is yet another habit-forming fossil fuel. (The "reformation" of fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases.)" Even if HHO is perhaps a little more obscure than hydrogen cars, it is technology that is transforming the way Americans drive. With adequate computer controls and a solid HHO kit, whether 316L stainless steel or coated titanium, many drivers are now getting as much as 50% greater mileage than without HHO, and a 20%-30% gain is routine. At every installment of the quarterly HHO Games we see amazing advances, and we saw more of them at Green City Events in Orlando last weekend. But we also know that Taiwan and South Korea are leaping far ahead of us in developing a host of practical applications for this amazing fuel (see the Epoch Energy videos below). It will only be when American politicians fall out from under the sway of the oil giants who hope to convert their fossil fuel filling stations to hydrogen filling stations, and when our own industry develops the next-generation plug 'n play HHO devices that not only can fuel America but can utterly revive its tired and broken economy, that the real future of the hydrogen car will be revealed.
Gasoline Giant's Onboard Hydrogen Generator Will Remain Under Wraps
Oct. 14, 2009 - ExxonMobil has backed away from its interest in participating in the 2009 Autumn HHO Games, according to an XOM speaker's bureau liaison, Ronita Hook. It was Hook who called us last July and said ExxonMobil had asked her public relations agency to respond to our invitation to the 2009 Summer Games at USF, and who said that the company said it would like to participate. She gave no reason for their change of heart, if they have had one. Hook was also a little concerned that we'd published a photo of ExxonMobil's onboard hydrogen generator as she didn't know its provenance. The photo was probably released in error, we think, in materials that ExxonMobil probably didn't think would reach such a very interested public niche. She said it would be "ideal" if we removed it. But what would be ideal is if ExxonMobil were able to back up in public its oft-televised claims that the device can save up to 80% on fuel by "reforming" gasoline. The device appears to be modeled on one created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1973. That device, using gasoline and a "small amount" of hydrogen produced by electrolysis, produced gains in fuel mileage and a drop in harmful emissions, the JPL scientists said in a 1974 paper. Missouri inventor Dan Merrick will bring his version of the technology to the Autumn Games in November.
Traffic At Green City Show Is Low, But HHO Displays Are Spectacular
An Orlando mom and her beautiful baby have lots of questions for Peter Crunk of Epoch Energy at the first Green City show in Orlando, where Crunk displayed his own HHO kit, powered by an HHO arc welder. He told us that Epoch could introduce its own onboard hydrogen generator in the next 30 days as an addition to its lineup of HHO devices for welding, commercial cooking, steam production and hazardous waste incineration. Mom and her baby and dad came to get a kit installed on their van. The show continues from 9AM-5PM Sunday (details below). Photo: HHO Games
Taiwan's Epoch Energy Offers 10,200LPH HHO Generators
Oct. 9, 2009 - Attendees at Green City Events at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Orlando won't see as much HHO technology as they might like for their $5 ($4 with a can of food), but what there is represents several important advances most of us have missed. Epoch Energy of Taiwan manufactures HHO generators that deliver up to - and far beyond, when linked - 10,200 liters per hour (170lpm) for a wide variety of uses, although not yet for cars. "We can produce as much fuel a you need. For example, If you need half a million liters per hour, we simply connect 43 sets of these together, and you have it," a company spokesman named Brian says. Their industrial-grade generators (which don't take up much space) produce enough HHO to produce a flame that looks like a 20-foot rocket booster - yet is so focused that you can put your hand on the metal sides of the canister at full blast and feel nothing (see the link below). While the video above is in Chinese with English subtitles and doesn't tell you that much, there is a 28-minute clip at this Website showing the HHO smokeless flame cutting inch-thick steel, boiling water on an HHO stove in seconds, and enough to launch a rocket as it starts firing at full capacity. For those who have despaired of HHO ever gaining the important higher ground of industrial applications, these videos truly offer hope. Peter Crunk of Epoch Energy will be demonstrating his company's devices at the Green City show on Saturday and Sunday. (Also displaying will be Hydra-Tek's Robert Bley, familiar to many of you from the HHO Games show at MTI in February and the 2008 Games.) We have invited Crunk and Epoch to the HHO Autumn Games in November.
HHOINFO To Offer Free 'Stores' For Online HHO Sales
Green City Events Kicks Off Its First Show This Weekend
New Remote-Access Software And A Gasoline Vaporizer Combine With HHO In An Amazing Kit
Terry Galyon Is Back - This Time With A 100-Liter-Per-Minute kit!
2009 Pecos Twisters HHO Fuel Test Run In Carlsbad, N.M. Is A Front-Page Success Charles Goodwin, First Prize winner at Saturday's inaugural Pecostwister's HHO Fuel Test Run, made the front page of the Carlsbad (N.M.) Current Argus. Here, he demonstrates his kit's installation. He won $300 for his efforts. Photo: Current Argus
Non-Flash Software Works With Any Vehicle, Distributor Says
Volo Performance V-12 Soft Flasher, Customized For Any Car, On Sale At $89.95
n Kicks Off Oct. 2 In Carlsbad, N.M.
2009 Autumn HHO Games Set For Nov. 14-15 At Manatee Technical Institute The new ExxonMobil on-board hydrogen generator has been invited to the 2009 Autumn Games. The unit "re-forms" gasoline much like the JPL 1973 study, albeit with a lot more sophistication. In television ads, the company said the unit could help get mileage gains of up to 80%.
Sept. 18, 2009 - Note: Date and place have changed With the gracious support of Executive Director Mary Cantrell, we are headed back to the prize-winning Manatee Technical Institute (which hosted the 2009 Winter Games) for the 2009 Autumn Games on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 14 and 15, 2009. Volunteers are needed! Setup will be the same morning starting at 8 A.M. Best of all, Vendor fees have been substantially reduced. The standard 8' x 6' spaces available inside Building 11 will be just $100, and 3-table spaces (whether horizontal-and-vertical or all-horizontal) are $125, and a fourth table is $25. Three premium spaces outdoors on the Main Lawn remain at $350 each, and Demonstrator spaces have been reduced to $10. Inventors remain welcome inside for free. We are looking for seminar leaders - contact us soon to get scheduled. ExxonMobil has been invited to display their onboard hydrogen generator technology - we'll let you know how that develops. If you plan to attend from outside the United States, let us know so that we can post your national flag on our homepage. MTI students are admitted free; seniors are $2; all others are $3 each day. Call Joe Shea at 941-753-1136 to nail down your preferred space now!
Mazda's RX-8 Hydrogen RE Hybrid Gets A Lukewarm Reception
MoreCo Energy Becomes First HHOgames.com Advertiser
ExxonMobil Says It's Interested In Participating In The Next HHO Games
Tarantola Tops His Own Record With A Toyota Getting 68 MPG
It's Official: Briton Demonstrates US-Made Resonant Frequency Device That Transmits Electricity Without Wires A way of sending electricity through air without wires was introduced at the TEDGlobal conference in England.
July 24, 2009 - WiTricity, an American company built around the invention of an MIT engineer, was a huge hit at the TEDGlobal 2009 in Oxford, England, this week as it demonstrated practical application of the Tesla-derived technology for resonant frequency transmission of electrical power, charging a mobile television and cell phone with no cables. The device is based on work by Marin Soljacic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Intel and other companies are working on applications for the technology. Many thanks to Gary Porter of WhyNotWater4Gas.com for the news tip.
Hybdridgen, Tarantola Sons Take Top Honors At Summer Games
Traffic Doubles On Day 2 Of Summer Games
Dear Joe:
Great News From The Manatee School Board: HHO Kit Passes First Test on 1,000-Bus Fleet
Saturday morning at 8:00 AM we will begin our 31.5-mile fuel test run.
By 10:00 AM all of us should be back at the Eddy County Extension Office at 1304 W. Stevens for display of HHO vehicles.
There will be a live two-hour remote by the local radio station.
Dan Merrick is coming from Springfield, MO, with a patent-pending fuel vaporizer which increases fuel mileage up to 40%.
Brice Walters is coming from Iowa with an e-book on how to separate the gases not to set off the computer.
Costa Rica is sending a man to view the vehicles and determine if it would be feasible to promote HHO in their country to lower emmissions. Ben Vasquez of Carlsbad will meet him at the El Paso Airport on Thursday.
Charles Goodwin, who won last year's event by increasing his fuel mileage from 16 MPG to 31.94 MPG on a 1997 Ford E250 camper van, will be teaching a 45-minute seminar on separating the atoms.
A second seminar, on vaporizing fuel, will be brought to us by Dan Merrick.
Brice Walters will finish up the third seminar on separating hydrogen from oxygen.
The seminars end at 2:00 PM and we will close down the show to the public
At 6:00 PM, the banquet will start and it is for the sponsors and the participants. At that time we will give out the awards for best increase in fuel mileage over the EPA Highway Estimates.
The prizes are: 1st place: $300; 2nd place: $200; and 3rd place: $100.
So far it appears we may have somewhere around 12 -15 participants.
Please pray for us that we have a successful rally. God bless and keep up the good work!
www.pecostwister.com
Video: Bright House Networks
Not much detail is visible, but this small hydrogen generator is in use now on 20 hydrino reactors running at BlackLight Power's headquarters in New Jersey.. Photo: BlackLight Power Co.
What BlackLight is saying is that their vehicle would produce many times more energy out of the hydrogen than a Prius gets out of its batteries, and when converted into energy efficiency, yields a cross-country trip fueled only by a half gallon of water. The hydrino engine would weigh about 440 pounds and the total cost with all controls would be about $9,800. But it will never need fuel or electrical recharging, meaning no hydrogen filling station or gas station would be required to run it. Here is what the company actually says: [T]he size and weight of an appropriate power plant are certainly permissive of motive applications. A 200-liter cell could deliver 200 kW or 267 HP and weigh only 200 kg, about half the weight of an internal combustion engine (ICE) of the same power. The projected cost of the CIHT stack is a very competitive $4,600. Considering the cost of the control electronics, $1,800, electric motors, $1,400, and transmission, $2,000, the total cost of $9,800 is comparable to the cost of ICE and its drive train of a conventional gas-fired vehicle without any fuel costs or pollution. ...
In this small, 50-kilowatt hydrino reactor - enough to provide power to 10 homes - hydrogen atoms are heated and then resonate with a NaH catalyst that absorbs photon from their orbit, creating the fractional state of he atom that is called a hydrino. Heat created in the process of stripping the photons turns a steam turbine to create electricity, while some hydrinos return to regenerate the catalyst so that more fuel is never needed. Photo: BlackLight Power Co.
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Photo: BlackLight Power, Inc.
Photo: Discovery Channel
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Meanwhile, in the Herald's new online rival, the independent Bradenton Times, Vince Safuto - a former copy editor for the New York Times-owned regional daily, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune - looks at both sides of the HHO story. Safuto writes at length about the upcoming Games, quoting me saying, "It's the biggest gathering of people who build onboard hydrogen generators anywhere in the world, and this is our fourth incarnation of it. We draw people from across the country and Europe, Asia and South America, and they share their ideas, their technology and often their schematics with all the people who come." But soon he quotes extensively from the Mike Allen articles in Popular Mechanics about hydrogen generators. Unfortunately, Safuto wasn't aware that Allen's ex-partner in the famed Monster Garage, Steve Rumore, mentioned in the writer's Aug. 7, 2008, article on HHO, decided Allen was wrong. Mr. Rumore opened Avalanche Engineering, one of the country's leading developers of HHO kits for cars and trucks. He was already a renowned and widely-publicized builder of 4-wheel drive trucks; Rumore claims very strong results for his high-end kits for big rigs and smaller vehicles, and we think that fact substantially undercuts Allen's credibility. Allen's problem is that he stands still, while the developers at the HHO Games keep moving forward, acknowledging early disappointments and working effectively and successfully to overcome them. As with Eric Krieg, the skeptic who railed against HHO on a Dateline segment and then did a shocked doubletake after a self-test won him a 50% improvement in mileage from a Buick Century with a coated-titanium HHO kit, the first story that gets out can't catch up with the latest one. (By the way, SafeHHO - which built the older cell Krieg tested - has just debuted the world's first 6-cell, 7-plate coated-titanium dry cell, featuring dual circulation.) But Safuto made an honest effort to provide information to his readers - as well as a fine picture of me - and his story is one that needs to be read.
Photo: The Bradenton TimesJoe Shea and the HHO Games were in the news this morning. A daily newspaper and an online site offered stories on this week's 2009 Autumn Games. 
Oct. 8, 2009 - Gabet123, the proprietor of HHOINFO, has just announced that he's making available turnkey online "stores" for anyone HHO retailer who wants to offer their HHO-related products and services. With over 2,000 members, it's a valuable offer and a generous one. Up to 10 items can be advertised at one time, and the stores easily link to various electronic payment systems such as eBay, PayPal and others. He's made it very simple to sign up, with no registration or other bureaucratic stuff. Contact him for more information at Gabet123@hhoinfo.ning.com.
Oct. 8, 2009 - Alternative Expo 2009 and Green Gas LLC, run by the folks who formed the International HHO Foundation, Kangen Water promoter Veronica Torres and HHO entrepreneurs Julio Figueroa and Efrain Rodriquez, kicks off its first show at the Orange County Fairgrounds Saturday at 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. The event runs through Sunday at 5 P.M. Admission is $5 ($4 if you bring a can of food) and it's $230 to have a display. We gave the show a space at the 2009 HHO Summer Games, and its also advertised on its Website. Zero Fossil Fuels will be in attendance and broadcast his Oct. 13 show based on what he sees. HHOINFO founder Gabet123 says he's heard "It's going to be big." One reported attendee is Smart Scarecrow, who has been demonstrating some interesting resonant frequency HHO devices on videos available at HHOINFO. Call Veronica Torres at (407)467-1750 for more information.
Oct. 3, 2009 - For many, software that will work with computers on any make of vehicle are the Holy Grail of HHO innovation. Word came to us today from Dan Merrick of Missouri that a Minnesota developer, Tim Huttner, has come up with that very thing - and that with the aid of a laptop it can be serviced remotely in your vehicle from his shop outside St. Louis. We hope to see the developer and the software in action at the Autumn 2009 HHO Games in Bradenton. But Merrick himself is an innovator of the highest order. He's currently running a dual HHO kit, or something like it: he runs one of his two electrolyzer vessels with three cups of gasoline (no water, of course) and a few flakes of KOH, and the other with the standard distilled water and a similarly small amount of KOH. The result? Some phenomenal increases in mileage, much as reported from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory team in a carbureted vehicle in 1973. Dan will be showing the vehicle at the 2009 Autumn Games alongside a similar contraption from ExxonMobil, the XOMGen2 (pictured a few stories below) if the oil giant is at the Games this year.
Oct. 3, 2009 - Kansas inventor Terry Galyon, whose ex-partner Jeff Riddle demonstrated Terry's 12 liter-per-minute (lpm) kit on a huge pickup at the 2008 Autumn Games, says that with the aid of a new power supply he's been able to increase HHO output to 80lpm, and that 100lpm is right around the corner. The kits he's designed are obviously for very large engines - the kind that have tires the height of a man - but are backwards-compatible with any size vehicle. Like Jim Tarantola's sons' solar-powered HHO kit demonstrated at the Summer Games, he's also using a throttle-body control that produces hydrogen on demand - but he's defining "demand" in a concrete way, meaning you don't need any HHO at idle and HHO production grows in volume as RPMs and fuel demand increase.
Oct. 3, 2009 - A Minnesota man, Tim Huttner, has developed a software-driven device that he says fits any vehicle and can be remotely installed by whomever distributes it. EPA laws are not violated by the approach, the developer says. The difference between the software install and the Volo Performance VP12 Soft-Flasher described below is that the software does not flash your computer and once installed, can be modified for your vehicle remotely (you need a laptop with Internet access in your car) via your OBD-II port - as you watch on your laptop screen - and fits any vehicle. The Volo flash chip needs to be customized for the car. There's another big difference - the Volo chip sells for $89.95 and the software currently sells for $800. We'd like to test them side by side at the Games.
Oct. 3, 2009 - Volo Performance (sales@voloperformance.com) of Benton, Ark., is selling a discounted $89.95 chip, the VP12 Dynamic Soft-Flasher) that "flashes" - i.e., accesses your Engine Control Module (ECM) (your onboard, factory-set computer) and resets the values to tolerate HHO kits and optimize your engine performance. "The VP12 is a vehicle-specific, custom-programmed 20MHz Micro controller. It utilizes its high-speed serial input/output to communicate directly with the ECU through the OBD-II port. Inside your ECU is a 3-dimensional table of values called a map. This table tells your fuel injectors exactly how much fuel to deliver given current air temperature, density, engine speed, throttle position, and other variables. From the factory, this map is generic and designed to provide a sluggish, no-surprises style of driving to suit a wide range of drivers. The VP12 temporarily replaces parts of this map with parts from our highly tuned performance maps, and will safely unleash you engine's full potential, without voiding the warranty," the company says. One big fan of the Volo chip is Rick McKean of the Pecostwister's HHO Fuel Test Run in Carlsbad, N.M. "This is what we've all been waiting for," Rick says. He's running the chip on his own vehicle, using two glass jars, and knows others in town equally pleased with the absence of codes and much-improved mileage.
Sept. 18, 2009 - A measured approach to HHO mileage gains and a $300 cash prize for the best performance are the key parts of the first major HHO competition in the Southwest. Entries in the Carlsbad, N.M., event, which runs from Fri., Oct. 2, to Sun., Oct. 4, will have a chance to prove the mettle of their HHO designs in a 31-mile run that will feature rigorous tests of mileage savings over EPA ratings for the entered vehicles. Those without EPA ratings will get a chance to test their mileage with their kits turned off during a mileage-baseline run prior to the actual competition. The run must be completed at speeds of 50-65MPH, and entrants are not allowed to get out of their cars during the round-trip test or to come to a stop (unless required by traffic situations). Following the competition will be a dinner for entrants and visitors, and the award of trophies and cash prizes at the Walter Gerrells Civic Center on National Parks Highway in Carlsbad, the site of the famous Carlsbad Caverns in southern New Mexico. Coffee and donuts will be served at a send-off breakfast from 7AM - 9AM on Sunday. Entries and Vendor spaces are $75, and the awards dinner for non-entrants is $25. Admission to the Vendor displays is $2 for people over the age of 14. Go to to register or get more information. We had a long talk about three weeks ago with Rick McKean, the organizer of the event. Rick said he plans to have eight test referees manning the run, and has gotten strong support from Carlsbad elected officials. For more information, call Rick - whose last name rhymes with Sen. John McCain's - at 575-361-3083. Former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson is now governor of New Mexico.
Aug. 26, 2009 - Mazda's new RX-8 Hydrogen RE, a hydrogen-gasoline hybrid, has a new approach to gas conservation. Most hydrogen-fueled vehicles use fuel cells to produce electricity, but this car allows the rotary engine to burn hydrogen directly with the push of a button, which can occur while driving. We're not sure the story in the Los Angeles Times is really complete. The author says, "Last week, however, we drove a hydrogen car that genuine gearheads might actually approve of. It was Mazda's RX-8 Hydrogen RE, and what makes it unique is that it makes power through the combustion of hydrogen. As a result, it drives and sounds like a normal sports car." The hydrogen is not created by elecrolysis but comes from a pressurized tank, which are universally regarded as dangerous. It's pitiful that writers like Brian Alexander still yearn for a hydrogen infrastructure when powerful new HSA-coated titanium-based electrolysis has broken through the barriers posed by chemical issues with stainless steel. This is not to say that stainless steel is a dead end, but that advanced titanium kits are "blue sky" material that, when perfected, may be able to generate sufficient high-quality hydrogen to provide 90% of an engine's combustion needs. The ExxonMobil onboard hydrogen generator is apparently being designed to produce 80% of the fuel in its tests, according to the company's commercials.
Aug. 5, 2009 - Richard Keough of the small Venice, Fla. MoreCo Energy LLC development shop has become the first advertiser on the HHO Games site, where virtually all of our readers have or want to buy a and EFIE or an HHO kit. We're helping him with details of his first order referred from us, for a prospective 2,000 kits needed overseas. At that rate, the $3,000 link from the VENDORS button at the top of our homepage will be more than worth it!
Aug. 5, 2009 - We got a call from public relations officials for ExxonMobil who say the oil giant is interested in participating in our next HHO Games & Exposition, which still is not scheduled as to time and place. They were impressed by some of what they saw on our homepage, a spokeswoman said, and thought they'd like to be part of it. The HHO Games is eager to see their onboard hydrogen generator, one that "re-forms" gasoline for a potential savings of 80% in fuel mileage, according to ads they ran late last year on many cable news sites.
July 24, 2009 - Jim Tarantola of Tampa's High Performance Fuel Cells says that he has broken his own record for fuel mileage by getting 68 MPG on a 2003 Toyota Spyder MR2, topping his own previous record of 66 MPG in the late-model VW Jedda diesel driven cross-country by Ozzie Freedom at the 2008 HHO Games & Exposition. The 4-cyl., 1.8-liter vehicle Spyder used Jim's own Small Block 307 HHO Kit and a PWM during tests this week, conducted with both a scan gauge and what he calls "real world dumping," where mileage is measured from fill-up to fill-up, not the mileage gauge on the dashboard.
July 24, 2009 - Hybridgen's sleek, compact, highly polishes HHO kits and a solar-powered kit designed by the sons of Jim Tarantola were the showstoppers at the 2009 Summer HHO Games that ended Sunday, June 19, 2009, in St. Petersburg at the University of South Florida. Also walking away with honors were Richard Keough of MoreCo Energy of Venice, Fla., kit distributors HHO Monster of Lake County, Fla., and
EFIE manufacturer Mike Kehrli of Seaside, Ore. The Hybridgen kit was selected not only for its sleek and compact design, HHO Games organizers said, but in recognition of the fact that it is reaching out to the broader market by getting its kits tested on refrigerated trailers and trucks of the giant Sysco food processing company. The Tarantola brothers' solar-powered design, in a bright orange 1969 Chevy pickup, displayed an extremely low power draw from two 15-watt solar panels mounted on the backside of the cab. The power draw was about 150 milliamps at highway speeds - you read that right - and the kit's energy use is determined by a connection to the throttle body, and decreases as speeds rise. Also getting a second look were Mike Connolly's impressively small HHO kit, which measured about 4 inches wide by three inches deep by four inches long - the smallest kit seen since the toy demo at the Fall Games in 2008. The Power Emissions Control unit won honors for Best New Kit Design for Connolly, who came to the Games from Mansfield, Ohio, with it mounted on to a large reservoir on a 2009 SUV displayed in the Demonstrator lot.
July 19, 2009 - As expected, visitors more than doubled Saturday for Day 2 of the 3-day non-profit 2009 HHO Summer Games, many of them coming to hear speakers like SRI Instruments CEO Hugh Goldsmith, the nation's largest manufacturer of gas chromatography equipment and accessories, who made a live appearance via Skype Webcam and promised excited HHO advocates free access to schematics for a portable $50 H2 (pure hydrogen) generator. Also making his first appearance was Anthony Grisanti of New York, who demonstrated a March Labs 25-lpm HHO generator with a welding torch - one of the most powerful generators and intriguing applications we've seen. But the amazing Jim Tarantola stole the show with a 3 to 6 lpm solar-powered HHO generator, imagined and assembled by sons Jim and Joe, that uses only 115 milliamps when the engine is running at highway speeds. Dr. Sesha Srinivasan seemed particularly impressed by the Hybridgen kit demonstrated by former NASA Space Shuttle technician Ed Grimm and Clearwater developer Randy Young. The USF Research Professor of Engineering and expert on hydride storage of hydrogen pored over photographs of the kits currently installed on giant food processor Sysco's refrigerated trailers and trucks. Dr. Srinivasanam said he would investigate the potential for a marriage of HHO and hydrides, a potentially enormous advance in our industry's technology. Efrain Rodriguez of Green Gas LLC gave a well-received presentation on the International HHO Institute, which is producing a Central Florida HHO event in mid-October, and then provided newbies a detailed rundown on the ins and out of HHO installation. Also well-received at the day's first Seminar was Ozzie Freedom of Water4Gas, talking on the marketing of HHO, who has sold more than 55,000 books on HHO technology and put HHO on the map when he launched his business several years ago. Mike Connolly of Go Green Emissions in Mansfield, Oho, demonstrated what is probably the smallest HHO kit available today, a 5-plate kit encased in light but durable black plastic that produces 1 liter per minute. The unit is roughly the size of two packs of cigarettes placed together. There was also a lot of interest in Peter Morales' kits, which were delayed in shipping Friday but showed up on time Saturday morning for the opening of Day 2. The presentation drew steady traffic throughout the day. Making a late appearance was Walt Jenkins of Anna Maria Island, who said his personal vehicle is currently undergoing final touches to complete his water-only system, which promises to be one of the world's first non-gasoline HHO engines. Kangen Water also drew consistent interest and lots of questions, as presenters Dan Towey and Veronica Torres offered samples of the incredible stuff throughout the day to more than a hundred people. One man told the audience that using the Japanese-developed "miracle water," he had lost 60 lbs. of excess fat in one month.
