Here we have C.H. Garrett and an engine equipped with his electrolytic water carburetor. It's one of the only pictures out there from the 1930s, which leads me to believe he was either really incorrect or so correct that he was deemed dangerous and omitted from history.
-By KELLY KIRK
I think diesel is even more, and premium is probably more yet. I don’t put a pile of miles on in a year, but it’d be nice if a full tank of fuel didn’t increase the value of my truck by around ten percent. Obviously, everyone knows electric vehicles aren’t the solution for a critic like myself. They don’t make any sound, the mileage per charge rarely seems as advertised, the technology is still fairly new and unproven, the raw materials in the batteries are expensive and rare, and I’d have to get an electrician to retrofit a charging station onto the house somehow, provided the panel box can handle it. The answer has been right under our noses for almost a century, but if it has no smell, how do you know it’s there.
If you’re tired of burning gas and diesel, it’s time to try water. Burning water is every firefighter’s nightmare, but it was the dream of C.H. Garrett in the 1930s. In every example I could find of someone trying to create a water-fuelled automobile, an electrolytic device is used to separate the two-parts hydrogen from the oxygen so that it can be burned. Sometimes it’s in the spark plugs, but I prefer the Garrett method with an electrolytic carburetor. Using only a strong battery and generator, all the power needed to separate the hydrogen, and the oxygen was onboard at all times. Garrett patented his idea and even provided a demonstration to reporters. Sadly, nothing ever came of it, but why? Doing a little more research, I came across an article on rexresearch.com that gave a very detailed set of blueprints and a great explanation of how it all worked. Underneath that, however, there was an even more detailed explanation from a man named Norman Green, who dissected the whole idea with some pretty solid evidence. It’s a long, involved read, but to sum it up, the electrolytic tank would have to be larger than the vehicle it was meant to propel, and it would require more horsepower than the engine could ever produce to spin the generator. Was Garrett using some smoke and mirrors when he did his demonstrations? Did Norman Green blind me with science or baffle me with bull? If this took off, would big oil be replaced by big water? Could the government find a way to tax the rain? Unfortunately, sometimes there’s only information, not answers.
