This is GREAT! Just toss a hand full of bacteria, into your gas tank, a little wheat straw and you’re off!
Maybe on long trips,or when pulling your boat or camper, you’d want to also throw in a few tabs of X-Lax, to improve millage, but that’s to be determined.
Poop Powered Pick Up Trucks, who’d have thunk it?
They OBVIOUSLY, don’t mention the “exhaust fume aroma” given off by this new fuel idea. But, with some rigs already “smelling like french fries” from the new bio-diesels, this stuff added to the freeways of America may not be that much different in aroma, than visiting your local “greasy spoon” anyway!?!
From; "The London Times-06-16-08…
“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to ? especially the ones coming out of business school ? this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.”
He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs ? very, very small bacteria ? so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as wood chips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.
Unbelievably, this is not science fiction. Pal holds up a small beaker of bug excretion that could, theoretically, be poured into the tank of the giant Lexus SUV next to us.
Not that Pal is willing to risk it just yet. He gives it a month before the first vehicle is filled up on what he calls “renewable petroleum.” After that, he grins, “it’s a brave new world.”
Pal is a senior director of LS9, one of several companies in or near Silicon Valley that have spurned traditional high-tech activities such as software and networking and embarked instead on an extraordinary race to make $140-a-barrel oil from Saudi Arabia obsolete.
“All of us here ? everyone in this company and in this industry ? are aware of the urgency,” Pal says.
How about water? “Is he serious?” you ask… Yes I am… Look it up on the internet. A gasoline burning engine can be converted to a hydrogen engine that gets its fuel from water… People are already doing it.
Now this isn’t a complete conversion, but it is supposed to boost your gas mileage. I am in the process of building one to put in my car since I drive about 300 miles a week. It would really help me save some $ if it works.
Here is a link for the FREE plans for the one I am building.
“Water Injector Systems”, “Turning your air cleaner, lid, upside down”, “Gas Rocks, to place in your gas tank”… these ALL were “big deals”, back in 1972, '73, when the “Gas Shortage” was going on and people were waiting in line, sometimes for HOURS, (actually idling their car’s tank out of gas while waiting to gas up!).
I’m sure, many of us are old enough to remember, THAT fiasco!?!
I’m not saying, and/or, suggesting that these items “don’t work”, but they WERE around nearly 30 years ago and once gas became plentiful again were all but forgotten.
Ford is currently working on a car that “runs on water”, and I’m sure others are also. But, some if these “overnight-wonder-inventions” never seemed to work in the 70s so I wonder if they do now?
When they first arrived on the scene, people snapped them up as fast as production allowed. Shortly, thereafter, “burned valves”, “cracked pistons” and “ruined motors” reports began to appear on a regular basis. The water, it seemed, even in the “micro-fine mist form” touted by by manufacturers, was diluting and ruining the lubrication properties of the engine’s oil, even the small amount of lubrication that gasoline contains.
We have “gasoline driers” that can be added to gas tanks to rid the tanks of harmful “condensation moisture”, so imagine, what "injecting water straight into an engine, might do?
NOT SAYING that they work, or they don’t. Just, very curious as to the “How/what/why” of the invention itself!?
I’ve always been curious, (but I think it’ll be agreed, that the real answer is “obvious”), that IF these people selling these “quick and easy fixes for mileage improvements”, really had the legit and simple answer, WHY the auto makers never have even tried to use them on their production cars?
Point taken. I am not old enough to remember the gas shortages of the 70’s, I was just a kid at the time.
I’m as environmentally conscious as the next guy, but I’m just posting this as a possible option to help save on gas. My car is at the end of its life cycle anyway, so no thing there. Splitting water into 2 burnable gasses to use as fuel is pretty new to the scene. (not sure of the exact time frame though)
If I had a diesel I would look into bio-diesel, but all my vehicles run on gas so I’m just trying to increase their MPG.
As for bio-diesel, if you are a farmer or know one that would help you, you can plant some high oil crop(rapeseed for example) and buy a press and make your own fuel. You press out the oil and the waste(seed cakes) can be used as feed. Win-win for both of you. I’ve seen presses for $2000 and up, so the initial expense is a bit high, but I think the end result is worth it.
Another basic problem of splitting water into molecular hyrdogen and oxygen is that you end up expending MORE energy to split the 2 molecules of water to get 2 molecules of hyrdogen and one of oxygen than you get when you recombine them (a.k.a. burn them for fuel). Therefore one must either have a ready source of molecular hydrogen (a pair of bound hydrogen atoms) or have another source of energy which is worthwhile to trade at a loss for liquid fuel.
This reminds me of my cost saving devices (JC, sorry for the commercial) : Add 3 gallons of ( my special formulation) glass marbles to your fuel tank and you’ll experience an an approximate 20% cash savings every time you fill up. This is a scientifically proven fact/device. I also have a device for saving water with every flush by inserting two ( my special formulation) bricks into the toilet water flush tank. Both of these devices will work AS STATED, guaranteed.
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Water injection has been around for probably about a hundred years. Geewhiz, it was on of the first things we did to reciprocating airplane engines to get a temporary boost in power! Anything more than use for a short burst of power will dry out the lubrication from the cylinder and you can kiss that engine goodbye!
Also we get easily confused between burning hydrogen like we do fossil fuel and how an actual hydrogen fuel cell works. Check it out here:
