Fuck it. I’ll Godwinize this thread right out of the blocks: This is like an ad for David Duke’s campaign, right on the Anti-Defamation League web site.
Hey, why don’t you start taking ads from the American Nazi Party? You’re whoring yourself anyway, and I’d rather hear that the Holocaust never happened. Although I do appreciate the spokeslady in the black miniskirt.
“There is no gas shortage man. It’s all fake. The oil companies control everything. Like there is this guy that invented this car and it runs on water man. It’s got a fiberglass air-cooled engine and it runs on water. It runs on WATER man!”
Hey, you can do it. Provided, of course, you use some aluminum cans and lye like this guy does. (BTW, all the information there is free, so no need to shell out the big bucks.)
While I’m all in favor of maximizing thermal efficiency, how do you cool a Fiberglas engine? I mean, the stuff is an INSULATOR, fercryinoutloud!
(thinking) There might be some advantage to building part of a steam engine out of an insulator. Steam goes in. pushing down the piston (though I don’t think this is where most of the work is done). Spray of cold water condenses steam and sucks the piston back. Yeah, an insulating engine block would be good, but I don’t think they’re talking about a steam engine.
(looking at the website) Nope, nothing like what I was thinking.
Email a link to that site to all your friends and family shouting about how great the idea is.
See if you can convince one of them to shell out for the kit.
You win when you can get the poor shrub to join the SDMB and tell everyone how convinced they are by this technology and how much better their fuel efficiency is now!
I don’t understand why products that just plain don’t do what they claim to do are legal. Don’t we have an agency (FTC?) that is supposed to protect against that? I mean, what happened to charges of false advertising?
And sadly that idea is still teh retardz, as several respondents on that site point out, even withough the part about using a plastic bag to store the hydrogen in. You have to factor in the energy used to make the lye and the energy used to refine the aluminium, and then figure out how you’re disposing of the waste in an eco-friendly manner - and even the part about “recycling energy” is wrong unless there really is no market for scrap aluminium.
