Posted on 04/13/2010 7:03:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
Plans to Brand and Launch New Fuel in 2010
BALTIMORE, Apr 13, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Alkane, Inc. (ALKN.PK) announced today it has filed for a patent for a newly developed synthetic fuel for use as an additive, blend or fuel in gasoline powered engines. The fuel is not petroleum based, so it requires no crude oil to produce. It delivers more power to the engine than gasoline and is expected to produce significantly less heat.
The technology behind the fuel produces unconventional combustion in an internal combustion engine. This results in as much as 18 times the momentum imparted to an engine as compared to the combustion wave that occurs when fueled by gasoline. Effectively, this fuel enhances mechanical energy output from an engine.
"The ability to enhance mechanical energy output from an internal combustion engine is groundbreaking," said Mathew Zuckerman, Ph.D., CEO & President of Alkane. "The internal combustion engine of today still works on the basic pioneering work of Nicolaus Otto's original invention in 1854. The fuel is burned and up to 75% goes into waste heat, while only approximately 25% is converted to mechanical energy. Our new fuel creates no such waste heat during combustion, but rather all of its energy is useful as mechanical energy in the engine. This will truly be a revolutionary innovation."
"America needs to develop products like our flagship product, Monster Diesel, and our new synthetic fuel, that promise to multiply the usefulness of our domestic reserves of energy," said Lou Petrucci, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for the company. "America faces increased competition from other countries for sources of energy to fuel our economy and increase our standard of living. We have the answer."
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It has a chance, if, and ONLY IF, you or someone really clever, can change, repeal or make an exception to the SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS....................
Alternators vary their magnetic load based on how much electricity is needed so no, there is not supposed to be a useful amount of wasted electricity. If you use more electricity, your mileage goes down.
This outfit is traded on the pink sheets. With fuel economy standards being raised to nearly impossible levels, their deal, if they actually have one, wont stay on the Pink Sheets for very long. If it’s a scam, they will languish there.
(/sarc) Ri-ight.
Less heat, more power...does it also sharpen knives?
I’ve got a perpetual motion machine.
It only takes a small diesel engine to run it!
“I still think using electrolysis, to split H2O into hydrogen and oxygen, and then feeding those gases into the air intake, has some potential.”
Tap water is mostly hydrogen that has already been burned... (it’s energy removed) Your going to remove it again?
“So what’s the patent number?”
So what’s the application number?
LOL
IF it sounds too good to be true.....
The patent will be denied as Rocky and Bullwinkle have already created “Upsidasium” and Avatar has shown “Unobtainium” to be a natural occurring element.
It make “Mounds of Coleslaw!”.................
So ... you're going to let Barney Frank "drain the midget" in your gas tank?
BS (and all other types of "S") can be used to produce methane, which runs vehicles quite nicely. Though it is mostly used to generate electricity for places with lots of "S" available.
Alkanes
Hydrocarbons which contain only single bonds are called alkanes. They are called saturated hydrocarbons because there is a hydrogen in every possible location. This gives them a general formula CnH2n+2.
The first four alkanes are methane, ethane, propane, and butane...
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/Organic/alkane.html
Actual BS can be used to produce methane, which is a fuel. That may be more than can be said for this new fuel. We will see.
I am skeptical.
In order to deliver more mechanical energy within the piston with less heat, more post reaction particles have to be generated during the chemical reaction. But what are those particles? What is the reaction material? In these two questions lie the pitfalls.
I mean, if this reaction generates a lot of HCN instead of H2O, CO and CO2, I am pretty sure I would not want to be tailing the engine that spews it out.
I smell a fraud.
The NappyOne
Isn’t this the marvelous fuel invented in the 50’s and the patent bought (or the inventor murdered and the plans stolen) by the oil companies and locked away forever?
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