People have been searching for new and innovative devices that can harness electricity. Today USA has spent more than a billion dollars in designing and research of devices that could be used as alternative fuels that can also sustain the environment.
Take the example of Toronto based company called Rothman Technologies. This company has come out with a method that can harvest oxygen and hydrogen from tap water and this can be used as fuel to power automobiles. There is just a small modification needed and there is no additional need of extra support for fuel storage such as gas stations. Harvesting device will be used to separate the hydrogen from water and this hydrogen can be used to power electric devices.
Rothman Industries makes use of a combination of water, salt and inexpensive metal alloy to process energy from hydrogen which burns without using an external source. When hydrogen burns it does not give out any pollution. The metal alloy is used to harvest hydrogen. Rothman Industries makes use of an engine that has 12 horsepower and an electrical generator that makes use of water as fuel. About 13 and a half gallon containers are connected to each other via tubes which are in turn connected to a larger tube that is connected to the engine carburetor.
This system is actually a crude setup as of now but it can be improved to provide accurate results. Hence in the future gasoline engines can be used to run on hydrogen that is derived from water. This can be done with the use of harvesting devices which are similar to the ones used by Rothman Technologies.
Water is put in the containers and salt is used as an electrolyte. When a small metal alloy is placed in the electrolyte mixture, hydrogen is produced at a fast rate. The hydrogen then passes through the tubes into the carburetor to produce fuel to power the piston. Hence we see that salt and water can be used as fuel with a catalyst such as small metal alloy. This process could produce enough hydrogen to run a combustible engine.
Rothmans claims that saltwater can be used as fuel so that there is no need to add salt in fresh water. The metal alloy is quite cheap and hence running the engine for hours can be done at less than one Canadian cent.