Cybertruck...or how NOT to build a vehicle

[Frank S]

Well there is always Brown's gas, which is a slightly unstable separation of the 2 elements of water.
2 guys used to rent a small out building from me where they were experimenting with a more sustainable way to create the gas.
I machined many of the parts for their catalytic converter they built. One time they were making the gas and using it in a torch to heat and almost melt steel with.
Eventually they had a small 4 cylinder car engine running on it by changing out the injectors.
I was going to build them a hydraulic dynamo so they could do some real world testing of their engine running on the stuff but Tom's grant money ran out and Chris had already sank his life savings in the project.
Tom had applied for several patents Not sure if he ever received any for his design to extract the gas from the water at much lower electrical requirements than anyone else had been able to do
He had the energy requirements down low enough that more gas was produced than consumed in making it but not enough to viably run or do much anything else.
Tom died under less than stellar circumstances one while giving a lecture on his designs a few years later.
Note I have most of the design sketches that Tom and Chris had made of their converter but none of the actual electronics involved
the converter is kind of simple just a boat load of thin SS plates perforated with small holes and plastic separating rings all housed in a PVC tube encased in a steel jacket with half the plates being the cathode and half being the anode there are several catalysts which can be used look up making hydrogen and oxygen from water with electricity.
Then you need a bubbler for the gas to pass through to prevent back flash.
The clean out refilling and storage is where the big problems come in.