Okay guys, through the course of a youtube discussion with another random wackjob I came across another HHO scam. I emailed the company...well....the three companies that are apparently owned by one individual. I will invite him here to defend his product. Hey, he wrote me back, thus he may be willing to "defend" himself.
I know these scams are old news, however, I still seem to come across these jokers selling their magic milage machines that are somehow being pigeonholed by the evil corporate oil monopoly. I figure this is a good place to drop this. I gave this guy a good verbal spanking. I mean they KNOW their product doesn't work. They HAVE TO KNOW! Really? They never obtain EPA sanctioned test results and even when the CLAIM to have done so, you look up the EPA record that THEY provide and it absolutely reports exactly the opposite of what they say it does. Yet people still get scammed. This is a PRIME example of how scientific illiteracy and generally underdeveloped bullshit detectors can have quite an impact on one's wallet and society at large. I would say these scams only come second to homeopathy, and then only because, as of yet, AutoZone does not sell this automotive placebo. First things first, here is the company web sight for anyone that might be interested:
http://alternativegassolutions.com/how-it-works.html
It all started with this being submitted on their "company" web sight:
Comments:: "Injecting a small amount of hydrogen into your engine mixed with your fuel will improve the Octane rating to 140" This is also a patently false statement...and rather absurd to boot! Seriously guys...you are making baby jesus cry.
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I sent two of these actually. There websight also claims that only 50% of fuel actually combust in your engine and the unburned fuel is expelled from the exhaust...or something to that effect. At any rate it is an absurd assertion. I assume they are misrepresenting the fact that automobiles are only about 20 some-odd percent efficient where by efficiency we refer to the efficiency at which the energy obtained from the combustion of fuel is converted into mechanical energy by the motor. This quite different from combustion efficiently, or percentage of fuel that actually gets fully converted into CO2 and H20. Though the combustion efficiency of any particular vehicle will never be 100%, it is damn near it. The small percentage of incomplete combustion results mostly in those nice CO and NOx molecules. At any rate, if you want a physics lesson ask. Here is the response this elicited.
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You are an uninformed man, and should do your research before you run your mouth. below is a RON octane rating chart from wikipedia showing all of the octane ratings. If you look at the bottom fuel you will see that hydrogen burns over 130 octane equivalent. Hydrogen tech. has been used for over 120 years. Car manufacturers all around the world are starting to bring this tech. into their future vehicles. NASA has been using it for years. I don't no where you recd. your degree at, probably on line, but you must have finished at the bottom of your class. If this technology doesn't work why is it being used successfully by over 300 major trucking firms using my product alone. and almost 10,000 personal vehicles. that does not even include the other 100 or so hydrogen companies offering their products. Do you think these major trucking firms that watch every dollar being spent on their vehicles would continue to use hydrogen on their trucks if they were not seeing a mpg gain? It is closed minded people like you that ruin the future of technology. I'm not even going to respond to your other stupid emails, it wouldn't matter anyway, regardless of what I show you your mind is already made up on your closed minded, one sided opinion. You havn't even tried one of our systems! You complian to website that you want to, I will respond to your complaints with our results and recommendation letters from our happy customers.
Examples of octane ratings
The RON and MON of n-heptane and iso-octane are exactly 0 and 100, by definition. The following table lists octane ratings for various other fuels.[5][6]
Fuel RON MON AKI
hexadecane < -30
n-octane -10
n-heptane (RON and MON 0 by definition) 0 0 0
diesel fuel 15–25
2-methylheptane 23
n-hexane 25 26 26
1-pentene 34
2-methylhexane 44
1-heptene 60
n-pentane 62
requirement for a typical two-stroke outboard engine[7] 69 65 67
Pertamina "Premium" gasoline in Indonesia 88
n-butanol 92 71 83
n-butane 91
"regular" gasoline in Canada and the US 91–92 82–83 87
Pertamina "Pertamax" gasoline in Indonesia 92
Shell "Super" in Indonesia 92
Pertamina "Pertamax Plus" gasoline in Indonesia 95
Shell "Super Extra" in Indonesia 95
"EuroSuper" or "EuroPremium" or "Regular unleaded" in Europe 95 85–86 90–91
"SuperPlus" in Germany, Great Britain and Slovenia, "SP98" in France 98 89–90 93–94
iso-octane (RON and MON 100 by definition) 100 100 100
benzene 101
"BP Ultimate 102"[8] 102 93–94 97–98
t-butanol 103 91 97
ethane 108
propane 110
toluene 111 95 103
E85 gasoline 100-105[9]
xylene 117
isopropanol 118 98 108
ethanol 129 116 122
methanol 133 105 119
methane 135 122 129
hydrogen* > 130 very low[10]
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I have invited him to this forum for a discussion. I was not willing to waist my time in a private email "debate" in a fruitless attempt to convince a con artist to come clean. Allas...I await his response. At any rate here was my reply just in case he claims I called him a babykiller or something:
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Look, I am not going to waist time arguing with you about your nonsense. Your response, frankly, speaks for itself. You are well aware of your deceit. You should be ashamed of yourself. Thank you for the amusing response. I especially like the part where you attack my credentials. This will CERTAINLY get posted on the free thinker forum here in Fayetteville:) Would you like a link? We can discuss the validity of your product claims there.
Kevin Lyon