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To: Red Badger

Sounds like another something for nothing scheme.


3 posted on 01/02/2009 11:39:30 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain
Sounds like another something for nothing scheme.

If it works, one wonders why the existing injection system wasn't better optimized for droplet size? So it probably doesn't.

7 posted on 01/02/2009 11:42:29 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: marktwain

I don’t think so, this time. It seems to make sense...........


8 posted on 01/02/2009 11:42:42 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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To: marktwain

well, the guy’s a professor and I assume the article was in a peer-reviewed journal. So while that’s not an iron clad guarantee, it does give it a little more credibility than if it was some garage tinkerer making the claim.


9 posted on 01/02/2009 11:42:57 AM PST by kms61
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To: marktwain

Not really. I’ve heard, in the past, that heating fuel prior to it entering the system will increas effeciency also. Actually, it’s a fairly simple and inexpensive system to play with.


11 posted on 01/02/2009 11:44:05 AM PST by RC2
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Reducing the Viscosity of Crude Oil by Pulsed Electric or Magnetic Field

The method does not change the temperature of the crude oil; instead, it temporary aggregates paraffin particles or asphaltene particles inside the crude oil into large ones. This particle aggregation changes the rheological property of the crude oil and leads to the viscosity reduction. While this viscosity reduction is not permanent, it is suitable for many important applications, such as oil transport via deepwater pipelines, since it lasts for several hours and is repeatable.

15 posted on 01/02/2009 11:46:21 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: marktwain

Herm, I’ve seen these before. Might as well be selling or researching “snake oil.”


18 posted on 01/02/2009 11:47:24 AM PST by fightinbluhen51 ("...If it moves, tax it, if it moves faster, regulate it, if it stops, subsidies it.")
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To: marktwain

When I was a small child I lost a tooth and put it under my pillow for the Tooth Fairy. I did not tell my mom, and the she was wakened the next morning by my screams of.” that Damn Tooth Fairy forgot me.”

There “aint no tooth fairy” nor is there a bolt on electronmagnetic device that will make the fuel less viscous that does not envolve heat or cracking of molecular bonds.


70 posted on 01/02/2009 4:50:53 PM PST by cpdiii (roughneck, oilfield trash and proud of it, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, iconoclast.)
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