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Newton's law of Conservation of Energy states that matter is neither created nor destroyed. Getting 4 cups of water from one sounds like a some magic trick - like pouring milk in a newspaper funnel...
"Matter and Energy can be destroyed"
Einstein showed that a consequence of his special theory of relativity is
that matter and energy are coupled, and that one can indeed create or
destroy matter PROVIDED an appropriate exchange is made between
matter and energy. That is, energy can be converted to matter, subtracting
from the universe's store of energy and adding to the total number of
atoms. Conversely, atoms can be destroyed, subtracting from the total
count but thereby adding to the universe's store of energy.
E = mc**2
These are powerful and extremely practical ideas for scientific
understanding the physical world. However, they are not quite correct.
For example:
Inside the atom are forces holding the nucleus together, called, without
too much imagination, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force.
This force represents a potential energy within the atom. When a
radioactive atom decays, it spontaneously breaks up into two or more
smaller atoms which have less mass in total than the parent atom the
missing mass has been converted to energy.
To give you a another example of how immense this conversion factor between
energy and matter is, consider this: a huge nuclear power plant might
produce 1 GW of electricity, enough to power a medium size city.
Over the course of a year, producing this much energy "burns" about (3/4 of a pound) of nuclear fuel.
By comparison, a coal-fired power plant would use hundreds, if not
thousands of railroad carloads of coal.
But if we were to carefully measure all the coal ash, and all the gasses
produced during the burning, and compare it to the hundreds of thousands of
tons of coal and oxygen fed to the boilers, we would also find ourselves
350 grams short at the end!
So I doubt you can pour 1 glass of water in a box and end up with 3, 
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and i acnt find anything else on this topic but vids!!! i want some text explainig how this happens!!! curse google!
). What I'm referring to things on the site like all the other goodies beyond the fuel cell(ex. PCV enhancer and fuel heater) that are claimed to help fuel econony that much more, and all the customers comments(real or did they make up all those polished responses?) and, really 10,000 happy customers? So what's your opinion, lugit or barely worth reading? Thanks.
and it's not about making a car running on pure hydrogen, we all know that's next to impossible for an average person, it's about improving gas mileage a noticeable amount for a cost next to nothing that could save hundreds per year. But you're entitled to your own opinion.
It's beyond most people to do so, but that's not what most of us that are into this are shooting for(setting aside those who do this just to light the bubbles on fire