[Moto] A teenager makes a motorcycle that runs on salt water

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It all started as part of an end-of-course project and has become an attraction on the networks within the South American country. Santiago Herrera has handcrafted this homemade motorcycle, which is powered by salt water to function.

 

Through our colleagues from La Moto Argentina we have met Santiago Herrera, an 18-year-old boy from the province of Salta, who was surprised a few days ago when he uploaded a video of his project baptized as “One green step at a time ”.

It is the result of the work he has been carrying out, in recent months, as part of his university studies. A completely handmade motorcycle, powered by salt water, was the challenge that this young man chose for his student work. Thanks to this, he has become a public figure overnight within his country.

In fact, it is not the first time that we see a device of this style. A mechanic from the same province, named Juan Siclera, already showed a motorcycle with similar characteristics a few years ago, and said that he had created that design 16 years ago. Therefore, this type of system has already been tried to be implemented at another time in the past, but they still do not find the necessary support to carry it out.

 

Returning to Santiago and his version of this motor equipment on his homemade motorcycle, he shows us how it works in several videos that he has uploaded to the TikTok social network. In them they explain the operation by means of electrolysis in the water, separating the elements that are in it by means of current with two electric poles. In this way we can separate the oxygen and hydrogen that we find in liquid matter.

As Juan Siclera explained a few years ago when he was building his motorcycle, powered by salt water, the operating system was as follows: "I have a container with water to which I add salts, through a hose I take that water to a system of platelets that I made with scrap metal, more polycarbonate and other elements. Hydrogen gases are separated on one side and oxygen on the other, one comes out through a hose because it is heavier and the other gas through another hose. Hydrogen will serve as fuel".

 

Now Santiago has taken up that idea again, and he himself confesses to us that he would be delighted to mass-produce them, but that he needs different modifications to make it work correctly. Above all, replace the glass jar that uses a fuel tank mode, which can explode due to the reactions caused inside it during electrolysis.

He himself recounts these vicissitudes that his handmade motorcycle goes through: “I recently uploaded it to TikTok and many people saw it. We need people in the world who innovate and who people support. It would require structural modifications, especially with equipment similar to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)." He also expressed his intention to even create a tutorial on how to manufacture more units independently: "If I reach 10 thousand followers on TikTok - account is santyherrera01– I am going to create a tutorial and show how you can do it at home”

 

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