Posted on 01/02/2009 11:37:56 AM PST by Red Badger
With the high cost of gasoline and diesel fuel impacting costs for automobiles, trucks, buses and the overall economy, a Temple University physics professor has developed a simple device which could dramatically improve fuel efficiency as much as 20 percent.
According to Rongjia Tao, Chair of Temple's Physics Department, the small device consists of an electrically charged tube that can be attached to the fuel line of a car's engine near the fuel injector. With the use of a power supply from the vehicle's battery, the device creates an electric field that thins fuel, or reduces its viscosity, so that smaller droplets are injected into the engine. That leads to more efficient and cleaner combustion than a standard fuel injector, he says.
Six months of road testing in a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz automobile showed that the device increased highway fuel from 32 miles per gallon to 38 mpg, a 20 percent boost, and a 12-15 percent gain in city driving.
The results of the laboratory and road tests verifying that this simple device can boost gas mileage.
"We expect the device will have wide applications on all types of internal combustion engines, present ones and future ones," Tao wrote in the study published in Energy & Fuels.
Further improvements in the device could lead to even better mileage, he suggests, and cited engines powered by gasoline, biodiesel, and kerosene as having potential use of the device.
Temple has applied for a patent on this technology, which has been licensed to California-based Save The World Air, Inc., an environmentally conscientious enterprise focused on the design, development, and commercialization of revolutionary technologies targeted at reducing emissions from internal combustion engines.
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Acetone is tough on your rubber and plastic engine components and hoses.
Exactly. See the center of a plasma in your Chevrolet.
See the Plasma-ay in your Chevrolet........
Similar devices and studies have been published since electronic fuel injection became the standard for vehicles in the early 80s; the only thing new about this one is the fact it is being touted at a time when fuel prices are ‘depressed.’
The marketing arm, Save The World Inc has a website — Google stwa and you’ll find the usual business about ongoing testing and promising early results but not the pictured device above available for sale.
The same company also sells ‘swirl inducers’ that fit under carburetors — flash back 50 years — only theirs are machined out of billet rather than cheap stampings.
Every similar device tested up to 1996 by EPA labs has failed to arrive at the advertised result but none of the electromagnetic gadgets has been shown to cause harm or reduce efficiency like the ‘swirl inducers’ do.
If you really want better mileage, here’s a simple way to learn how to drive to achieve it — wrap your right shoe in bubble wrap packing and tape it securely, now go out and drive a twenty mile circuit.
When you can do that without popping a single bubble you will be properly trained.
” the guy’s a professor”
Those that can, do. Those that can’t teach!
Most professors are idiots!
If he wrapped one around his Brown gas hose he’d really see an improvement. /sarc off
How many times can these charlatans roll out this “technology”? I remember being a boy in the 1960’s and reading ads in the back of car magazines that claimed the same thing from electical and/or electromagnetic field devices.
It’s all bullsquat.
And he sure lined up a powerhouse licensee — “ Save The World Air, Inc., an environmentally conscientious enterprise”. I’m sure the big guys all looked at it and had a good laugh.
Now it’s university level Bullsquat............
electrically charged tube / Isn’t that called a dildo?
If you really want better mileage, here’s a simple way:
Cruise control...........
Mythbusters did it. Didn’t work. Won’t work. Save your money.
LOL!!
But THIS IS NEW!!!!!................
Sounds awfully similar to the controversial claims about using acetone as a fuel additive.
As a side note, I did my own little ad hoc "test" of acetone, back when gas was pushing $4.00 per gallon, in a Corolla. Three "cycles" of three tanks with (3 ounces per ten gallons), and three tanks without. Mileage with acetone averaged a little over 36. The effect, whatever it is, lingered through tanks without acetone, but slowly declined until the third tank without, which averaged a little under 32. Same daily commute, same driver.
I've since stopped using it, but have no doubt that there is something to it, providing close to a 15% increase in fuel economy. Engine ran better too, easier startup in a car known for hard starting, smoother, better pickup. Can't explain it at all, but that was my experience.
And a plethera of wild monkeys can fly out of my butt as well!!
I expected to see this: http://www.josephnewman.com/ or Dennis Lee behind this. Is there a blueprint or is it yet another scam like Newman has been pushing for years?
LOL! Brown’s gas, another one of Dennis Lee’s scams.
If I can just hold out til 2012 I’ll be okay............
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