Internal combustion engines operate with fuel, ignition and air to generate energy by igniting the fuel to create high cylinder pressures. The more efficient that the ignition is, the more power that the engine creates for a given size of engine.

Air that internal combustion engines “breathes” is a mixture of approximately 80/20 nitrogen and oxygen. Nitrogen per se, is not flammable and does not add to the engine’s combustion process, so the engine has to rely on the 20% in the air for combustion.

So, the more oxygen that is added to the combustion mixture, the more efficient that the mixture will combust. In addition, if Hydrogen could also be added to the mixture, a more efficient combustion would occur.

My idea is to add a water “cracker” to the intake of the internal combustion engine that would separate the water into Hydrogen and Oxygen that would be added to the engine’s intake manifold. The energy for cracking the water would come from sparkplug-like igniters that would be powered by the same system that powers the engine’s spark plugs. A very fine mist of water is all that it would use. A couple of gallons of water would last a long time and could be refilled when refueling the engine.