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Prototype of the fuel device. (Credit: Image courtesy of Temple University)

1 posted on 01/02/2009 11:37:56 AM PST by Red Badger
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2 posted on 01/02/2009 11:38:31 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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Sounds like another something for nothing scheme.


3 posted on 01/02/2009 11:39:30 AM PST by marktwain
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Reducing Crude Oil Viscosity Using A Pulsed Electromagnetic Device

Temple University Study of Pulsed Electromagnetic Fuel Treatment Yields Dramatic Results in Reducing Oil Viscosity

4 posted on 01/02/2009 11:41:34 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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Hmmm. Seen it all already. Magnets, special things that mix more air in, things that take air out,etc. etc. Seen so much, it will take much convincing to get me to even believe this one...


5 posted on 01/02/2009 11:42:10 AM PST by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Inflation is for trying to fix broken bubbles, apparently)
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6 posted on 01/02/2009 11:42:23 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are the opium of the people.)
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Probably a heating element to thin the fuel, a surfactant might do as well.


12 posted on 01/02/2009 11:44:36 AM PST by Vinnie_Vidi_Vici
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Ummm..., some of these kinds of things are mighty suspicious. I’m not saying that this is — but it’s sorta in the same league as with others...


13 posted on 01/02/2009 11:44:36 AM PST by Star Traveler
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...has been licensed to California-based Save The World Air, Inc., an environmentally conscientious enterprise...

I wouldn't buy one just for that!

14 posted on 01/02/2009 11:45:49 AM PST by MarineBrat (The New York Times is a Communist Kamikaze.)
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Finally, my very own flux capacitor. 1954 here I come!


16 posted on 01/02/2009 11:46:29 AM PST by TheWasteLand
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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.

This does not make much sense. Modern cars have one fuel injector per cylinder. Fuel is metered into the cylinder on the pistons downstroke, instantly vaporizing the fuel in the combustion chamber as it passes though the injector's atomizer nozzle.

19 posted on 01/02/2009 11:49:00 AM PST by 6SJ7 (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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Isn’t that the same device they say turns hard water into soft water?


23 posted on 01/02/2009 11:52:34 AM PST by Taxbilly
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I just moved to a house where it’s downhill coming and going so I don’t even have to start the engine.


24 posted on 01/02/2009 11:53:09 AM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself)
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How can you lose on Save The World Air, Inc. under the incoming regime? Especially with the ticker symbol ZERO.OB.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=zero.ob

30 posted on 01/02/2009 11:59:09 AM PST by shove_it (and have a nice day)
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I saw ads for something like that back in the 50s in my dads’s bathroom magazines (i.e. True, Argosy) and, as a result, view this gadget with more than a little suspicion.


32 posted on 01/02/2009 12:00:24 PM PST by pt17
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Wow, another "magnets on the fuel line" device. This one is an electromagnet, so it is really also (primarily) adding heat to the fuel.

Heating the fuel going into a mechanical diesel injection pump (like on older Mercedes Benz diesels) will reduce the viscosity of the fuel and very slightly reduce the power used by the injection pump (and therefore not available to the transmission to propel the vehicle). I'm not sure, but I think the laws of thermodynamics would prevent the power saved at the injection pump from exceeding the power consumed by the alternator to provide the electrical power to the heater/electromagnet.

This smells like BS.

I used to tell people that I had magnets on my fuel lines, the EN-Valve, a tornado, splitfire spark plugs, and a few other "fuel saving" devices. My fuel economy is so good, the car actually makes fuel as I drive it. I have to drain the tank periodically to prevent the fuel tank from overfilling.

33 posted on 01/02/2009 12:00:56 PM PST by cc2k
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It seems this STWA doesn't have a very good track record.

What listeners don't know is that STWA was charged with stock fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In December 2001, the SEC charged the company with engaging in a fraudulent scheme to manipulate the market for STWA stock. STWA was charged with leading a fraudulent promotional campaign to disseminate false and misleading information about a product they were marketing called "Zero Emissions Fuel Saver," a "fuel molecule atomizer device" that supposedly reduces diesel and gasoline emissions by placing magnets on an engine's fuel line.

The Strickland/Brockovich connection: Shaky companies

35 posted on 01/02/2009 12:03:50 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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One test vehicle? How can they claim any scientific results from a sample of one? That's an anecdote, not science.

Why would they prototype and test this device on a diesel engine when gasoline engines makeup the largest share of the market?

36 posted on 01/02/2009 12:05:25 PM PST by been_lurking
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The Do-It-Yourself-Kit comes with a re-usable tin foil hat.


37 posted on 01/02/2009 12:10:25 PM PST by O6ret
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Just what I always wanted. A device with high-amperage power from my car’s battery connected to the fuel system. What could possibly go wrong with that?


38 posted on 01/02/2009 12:15:40 PM PST by conservativeharleyguy (Democrats: Over 60 million fooled daily!)
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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.


48 posted on 01/02/2009 12:37:39 PM PST by Hazwaste (Feeling bitter and clingy since 1963.)
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