Game Over, Musk. HHO Carbon Clean Systems’ Innovative Technology Ahead of the Carbon Capturing Game.

On January 21, 2021, billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk promised a $100 million prize to whoever develops the best technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions.

Well, Musk. We’ll take our money now. Thanks.

HHO Carbon Clean Systems, an emerging franchise out of Metropolis, Illinois, brought the HHO1500, a top-of-the-line, custom-built hydrogen carbon cleaning machine, to the U.S. This machine uses a hydrogen generator and hose to add hydrogen to an engine’s combustion equation, sustainably removing carbon buildup that has accumulated as a result of unburnt fuel.

“Through electrolysis, we turn water into hydrogen,” said Jared English, an auto repair shop owner and master automotive technician who founded HHO Carbon Clean Systems in the summer of 2020 while business slowed due to the pandemic. “Once our hydrogen-water mixture enters the combustion chamber, the hydrogen ups the combustion temperatures, the water soaks into the carbon and acts as a mild solvent, and we yield a chemical reaction that causes a phase change in carbon, so it hitches a ride with unbound hydrogen molecules and comes out of the engine as a gas.”

This is different from the commonly-used, chemical-based alternative that burns the skin and produces thick fumes that pollute the environment and workers’ lungs.

“Because this process has zero emissions, we actually lower emissions while we're performing the service,” English said. “It works better than harsh chemicals, which push out black smoke and actually contaminate other components in the engine with large carbon particles that break off in chunks when using harsh chemical solvents. So it's a win-win for several different categories.”

Capturing planet-warming emissions is becoming a critical part of efforts to keep climate change in check. To bridge the gap to an eventual carbon capture future, HHO and many other innovators around the world are working relentlessly to reduce emissions from the internal combustion engines that make our modern lives possible.