I'm a practical person. I'm usually skeptical of things that I hear about that sound too good to be true; like all of those products you see on late night TV that just couldn't possibly work. From "buy my book and you can instantly get out of debt", to "free government money for anyone who asks", it's just ridiculous to think that these so called "opportunities" will actually work. Perhaps for some people, but certainly not everyone. One of these claims that I heard about recently was the ability to power a car on water. This is a joke, right? A car that runs on water! This has to be the worst of them all! But the thing is, it's not. There are scientists right now working on and developing new technologies to use water as a viable fuel source. I was definitely intrigued by this concept and decided to look into it further. The more I researched, the more interested and excited I got. It does actually work. I took science in high school, but I don't ever remember hearing about anything like this.

A "water burning hybrid", which is what your car would become if you chose to convert it, uses a simple device that is installed under the hood of your car. This device is an electrolysis cell that takes electricity from your car's battery and uses it to convert water into a gaseous mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. This mixture is referred to as HHO, or Brown's Gas. This mixture is then pumped into the engine which replaces some of the gas that would typically be needed to power the car. The result; the car will get great gas mileage. Some claim as much as 300%, however, that seems pretty outrageous. A 15% to 50% increase is more probable.

Another great advantage to using this device is that it could lower your car's harmful emissions. The by-product of this device: simply water. That alone is a great reason to try it, because using it could help limit greenhouse gases that are being released out into the atmosphere from your car.

The following video explains this process further as well as highlights our nations need for alternative fuel sources:

This technology is not without it's critics. There are many that claim that it won't work, or if it does, it won't perform to the standards that it's proponents claim. I think that it's definitely worth a try. In our current environment of soaring gas prices and outrageous fuel shortages, this technology might just be the answer that frustrated drivers are looking for.