It's been a few years since my father was going to drive through the bridge tunnel with a Dodge van and a 20 LB propane bottle on the back. He was told he was not allowed to go through it and had to go around. Last time I went through, I was passed by a utillity truck that was clearly labelled "PROPANE POWERED". So, to the best of my knowledge, up to now, a 20 LB bottle was not allowed.

As to the secret of improving efficiency...
Having worked with electronics and electrical engineering, you are familiar with VECTOR DIAGRAMS. You are also aware that in an inductive circuit, the current lags the voltage by 90 degrees, and in a capacitive circuit, the current leads the voltage by 90 degrees. So, put both onto the same diagram and one cancels the other. What you are left with is the resistance. In a series tuned circuit, the reactance is zero at resonance.

Electrolizers represent a DC resistance, and can not be compensated for by either, but... They CAN be powered by an M-G set. Companies do use them to keep lightening out of the computer controls. With them, it does not matter what the load is, the generator powers it regardless. That load is reflected back to the source as a mechanical load on the motor. The motor represents an inductive load on the line with very little resistance. That CAN be compensated for.

I also started out my work life as an electronic technician.(I held a valid FIRST-CLASS FCC LICENSE for about 10 years.) Then later, worked as an electrical engineer for 13 years before butting heads with stress. At Thanksgiving, one year, a doctor gave me a choice of reducing my stress or being buried by Christmas. That was when I got into driving a truck. Obviously, since I'm still here, I don't have as much stress with this. But, during those 13 years, I also served as a project engineer, and finally as a project manager.

So, now, all you have to do is figure out what kind of circuit would be adjustable to the variations of the load, automatically. Solid state diodes, for example, during a reverse portion of a cycle, build up a barrier region. The larger the diameter of the diode, the greater the capacitance it presents. "Hocky-Puck" diodes have a pretty respectable diameter. The greater the reverse voltage, the wider the barrier region, and the lower the capacitance it presents. Completely variable, isn't it? You have heard of a "vari-cap" before. Used in electronics all the time, but I have never seen them in an electical diagram.

Actually... No. That is not my complete answer. Those hockey-puck diodes are quite expensive. The answer is much simpler than that. And, considering the number of those diodes it would take to do the job, what I'm doing takes up far less room, and is also far more cost effective.

That's all you get without some kind of legal agreement.

 

And, as to the performance of a hydrogen powered car, google the name, mike muckerheide. He was a pioneer in the field of lasers. Back in the late '70s and early '80s, he had 7 cars powered by hydrogen. I never got to know his system, but I did get to drive one of them. I know he used a laser to create a plasma ball in a pool of water, but that's about it.

The car I drove went from Stevens Point, WI to Minneapolis, MN and back again on just 3 quarts of water, and no gasoline. I also know that the government shut it down for him. And, if anything, I found that the performance was even better than gasoline. With his system, you had to start the car on gasoline, then when the hydrogen came up, shut the gas valve off and run on hydrogen.

 

I'm not sure I would a lot faith in "Myron "Mike" Muckerheide" after I read a little about him. "UFO Attractor" comes to mind.

kc0iv

 

If you are saying convert the Electrolizers power and power a M-G and use it to power the load you would get even less efficiency. You have the additional losses of the M-G system.

OK Once you have a DC resistance nothing can be done to improve that efficiency. Any diodes has losses so any action used by that diode will increase the losses over that of a pure resistance not increase it's efficiency.

In order to use diodes you would also have to have a reverse bias circuit which would decrease the overall efficiency. So once again you have less efficiency than having just a pure resistance.

I know all about "burn-out." It took me a few more years than you but it can happen to anyone.

kc0iv

 

I will freely admit that he was able to "SLING THE BULL" right along with the best of them. However, you can not dispute the fact that his name is on several patents that have to do with medical applications of lasers, that he did work with the defense department, and that he also worked with NASA. And, it was a retired FBI agent (that he worked with to bring down an extremist group) that wrote his biography after his death. He didn't get credit for a lot of the things he did for two reasons. One, he never spent one day in college, and two, he was a maverick. He did not follow the "main stream".

However, the cars that he had set up to run on hydrogen did work, and gave quite good performance. And, if he were alive today, he'd be rolling on the floor laughing at some of the things you quoted. Back in the 80s, he stated that hydrogen was the way this country was going to have to go, and I agree with him.