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Brown's Gas and Fuel Cells Compared

Brown's gas and fuel cells are often spoken about in the same breath although they entail very different technology. Brown's gas involves the onboard generation of oxyhydrogen from water while fuel cells involve hydrogen (or another substance like methanol) being manufactured outside the vehicle, then pumped into the car's tank where it will then be used to generate electrical power.

Brown's gas is used as supplementary fuel for a gasoline, diesel or propane-powered vehicle. A hydrogen fuel cell on the other hand is the main power source for a vehicle and generates electricity to power one or more electric motors.

Adding to this confusion is that some manufacturers are calling their products Brown's gas fuel cells. There is a reason for this confusion since proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells and Brown's gas generators do have a few things in common.

For instance, if you run a hydrogen fuel cell in reverse and input water, you will create hydrogen and oxygen gases. Running a fuel cell the other direction by inputting hydrogen and oxygen will create electricity, heat and water.

A Brown's gas generator, however, does not create electricity, but rather draws electricity from a battery or alternator. The anode and cathode are immersed in water and the electrical current is used to create Brown's gas and water vapor.

Vehicles with Brown's gas generators are actually thought of as being safer than fuel cell cars. This is because Brown's gas generators create HHO gas on demand (or hydrogen on demand as some call it) and only store inert water onboard.

Fuel cell cars on the other hand typically store compressed hydrogen gas at pressures between 3,600 psi and 10,000 psi. The hydrogen for fuel cell cars is either created and pressurized at the pump or at some other location and piped or hauled to the pump. This represents more safety issues than creating Brown's gas on demand from water.

One area where both Brown's gas generators for vehicles and fuel cell cars are alike is their clean environmental impact. Brown's gas generators will help gasoline-powered cars and diesel-powered trucks reduce emissions as well as save gas. Hydrogen fuel cell cars, on the other hand, are zero emissions vehicles, emitting no greenhouse gases.

While hydrogen fuel cell cars are still a few years off (there is that nasty infrastructure issue that still needs to be resolved), Brown's gas generators for cars, trucks, SUVs and other vehicles are here now. Why not take charge of cleaning up the environment and saving on gas at the pump today?