‘Run Your Car On Water’ Scheme Could Leave Consumers All Wet

And yet so many people seem to be getting definite fuel increases…

“These widely-advertised devices, known variously as a “hydrogen generator” or “hydrogen booster,” claim to be able to use electricity from your car battery to split water into its components of oxygen and hydrogen. This supposedly forms what is called “Browns Gas.” Perhaps the most notorious Web site promoting the concept is Water4Gas.com. Created by a gentleman who calls himself Ozzie Freedom, the site is a 12,000-word sales pitch for two electronic books advertised at $97.00. Doing a Web search for “water4gas” or “Ozzie Freedom” brings up page after page of search results and advertisements with headlines such as, “Is Water4Gas a Scam?” or “Water4Gas Reviewed,” not to mention a wealth of videos that claim to show the device in action. It doesn’t take long to realize that the “articles” and “reviews” appear to be sales pitches masquerading as unbiased reviews. Some sites present themselves as mechanics giving free advice to motorists. “All of these device/schemes seem to promote adding hydrogen to improve the combustion process. There is no way it can improve fuel economy by 50%, or even 5%,” said Dr. Robert Sawyer, Professor of Energy Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. When we showed the instructions and claims to Dr. Andrew A. Frank, he had difficulty holding back the laughter. “It shows the desperation people feel!” said Frank, Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis.The Water4Gas site specifically says that you shouldn’t listen to “experts.” Instead, Mr. Freedom says that you should just order his books.” - Source

Man claims fuel system gets 463 miles per gallon w/video

Literally running on vapor!

“John Weston’s 1992 Geo Storm doesn’t look like much on the outside. But there are some people that say it’s what’s under a car’s hood that matters. “Since I changed the fuel system unit, it’s drastically different. I disconnected the fuel line from the injector so no liquid goes to the engine,” said Weston. Weston showed NBC2 a version of his air vapor flow system where instead of liquid fuel, only vapors go to the engine. “They used to say, ‘Hey I’m running on empty. I’m running on fumes.’ Well, this is actually running on fumes,” he said. Weston says the system burns cleaner and also made a bold claim about fuel efficiency from a one-time test. “It came up to 463 miles a gallon if we had driven in the same manner - a gallon,” said Weston. “I drove from here to Fort Myers, and I’m up there keeping up with traffic running 80 mph.” Now, the backyard mechanic is looking for investors so he can eventually take his invention public. In the meantime, he says you might see his car on the highway.” - Source

Lots of patents and info on this at 01/31/99 - A History of Vapor Carburetors.

Tankless task pays off: that’s AC, not DC

Another report of a much cheaper way to drive. Why don’t investors or investor groups jump all over these guys with money and manufacturing offers???

“In Gaza City, where gasoline is the rarest of commodities, Wassim Khazendar, electrical engineer, replaced the petrol engine in his Peugeot 205 four months ago with an electric motor. “I think I am the first person in the world to have been able to convert a car that runs on petrol, to one that runs on electricity,” he says. Now it costs him about 50 cents to charge the car’s 34 batteries, compared with the $425 he would have to spend to fill the tank with fuel. On full charge the Peugeot can cover about 180 kilometres at a top speed of 105 km/h, more than enough to get around the tiny Palestinian territory several times over. “I have attached the electric motor to the drive shaft, and that drives the car like a petrol engine,” he says. “The manual gears work like normal. The only difference is that it costs nothing to get around, and here in Gaza, that means a lot.” The secret, Mr Khazendar explains, is that he has found a way to use an alternating current electric motor instead of the heavier, direct current motors used in other electric cars. “For a car designed to run on a petrol engine, a direct current motor was too heavy, so when we tried it, it just didn’t work properly.” Sounding more like someone who could win a segment on the ABC’s New Inventors program, Mr Khazendar says there is a secret box underneath the car that will protect his invention from imitators. In need of a patent attorney to ensure his invention was protected, Mr Khazendar looked up the office of a reputable Tel Aviv firm. “They said yes straight away - a very good Israeli patent attorney,” he said.” - Source

Filmmaker hopes ‘Gas Hole’ inspires

A sad commentary on how politics can be so easily bought for so many years.

“Scott D. Roberts, along with Jeremy Wagener, is a co-director of “Gas Hole.” Narrated by Peter Gallagher (”The O.C.,” “American Beauty”), “Gas Hole” features interviews with politicians, energy officials, alternative fuel consumers (such as actor Joshua Jackson) and college professors all discussing the same topic: oil. What we found out really, the whole movie’s message really is we’re dependent on foreign oil but it’s not a technological problem - it’s a political problem, it’s a social problem and it’s an economic problem. We have the technology (to fix it). We’ve had it going back to Rudolf Diesel in (1900) when he invented the diesel engine to run on peanut oil. It wasn’t until his mysterious death that they started promoting his engine to run on petroleum. We got better fuel economy in the ’30s and ’40s and ’50s than we’re getting in 2008 where a hybrid (Chevrolet) Tahoe getting 22 miles per gallon is the green car of the year. That’s a joke. We want them coming away with information and being able to call their politicians and representatives and finding out where they stand on energy policies and know there are some options out there like biodiesel and ethanol, and hydrogen is also quickly moving into the mix - and electric. There’s a lot of options out there and they’re there today, not five, 10, 15 years from now.” - Source

July 2008 - KeelyNet is 20 years old!

Can’t believe KeelyNet has been online now since 1988!

It all started after I had accumulated a lot of interesting articles and documents and got tired of making photocopies for so many people that I knew or met.

So I spent about 2 months typing in roughly 8MB of information since I had no scanner in 1988. A BBS sounded like a great way to share a lot of information, thus was born the KeelyNet BBS out of Dallas, Texas.

I moved KeelyNet to the Internet in 1995 at the urging of Bill Beaty, longtime friend and operator of the excellent Amateur Sciences website, but for the prior 7 years KeelyNet was a one computer BBS system running out of my house. Back then we had about 2000 subscribers who shared information and comments.

I don’t have any photos of the BBS setup in my house from that time but it was much like the first one shown in the sample photos below. It was and has always been very interesting and a lot of fun.

So now it is 2008 which means KeelyNet has an online presence spanning 20 years! God I feel ANCIENT!

Not really, but it is a long time to devote to something unless you really do love it and are sincere about keeping it alive as long as you are able, and for now and the foreseeable future, I am all three of these.

I think the neatest and proudest thing for me, is to get emails from people who first logged on to the BBS when they were in their teens and trying to find out what they wanted to do with their lives. I’ve received several emails from guys who are now engineers, technicians or doctors who say they used to visit KeelyNet in the BBS days and it inspired them to pursue technical or medical careers.

My ultimate desire is to have my research lab where we could do a lot of tests and experiments.

I intentionally write WE since I get emails from people all over the world who have ideas or want to work in such a lab, so I have a list of who I want to invite here to work on their own project or other projects.

It will be much more than just a thinktank and something that could yield results that would change the world.

At any rate, we do what we can with what we have. So I’m glad KeelyNet has lasted this long and I hope we can do a lot more before it’s my time to kick the bucket. Feel free to stop by KeelyNet and bookmark if you like.

Thanks for all your support over the years!

Two concerns about the Future of the USA and the world

I don’t like the term ‘RULE’ but if we don’t get serious about getting our own house in order and LEAVE OTHER COUNTRIES ALONE, then expanding into space for infinite possibilities and new technology, we will be left behind by other countries.

Doing it the way Americans do it isn’t the only way nor is it the best. I read where a Mexican mother was advising her adult children before they left to work in the states. She said, ‘Don’t do everything the gringos do, some is right, some is wrong.’

We should always dynamically optimize and adapt by using the best methods we can find.

Who Will Rule the 21st Century? - “Straight-line extrapolation shows that China and India, with their faster growth rates, will eventually catch up to the U.S. in terms of pure economic size. But America has a final competitive advantage: its confluence of bright, hungry entrepreneurs and flush, eager investors; and its stable, highly adaptable system. For China, that would occur as early as 2045; for India, the date would be some 20 years later. Which is why you so often hear experts predicting that, by midcentury, the U.S. will be trailing the two new world superpowers.” - Source

US Dominance in Space Slips as Other Nations Step Up Efforts - “Space, like Earth below, is globalizing. And as it does, America’s long-held superiority in exploring, exploiting and commercializing “the final frontier” is slipping away, many experts believe. Although the United States remains dominant in most space-related fields — and owns half the military satellites currently orbiting Earth — experts say the nation’s superiority is diminishing, and many other nations are expanding their civilian and commercial space capabilities at a far faster pace. “We spent many tens of billions of dollars during the Apollo era to purchase a commanding lead in space over all nations on Earth,” said NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin, who said his agency’s budget is down by 20 percent in inflation-adjusted terms since 1992. “We’ve been living off the fruit of that purchase for 40 years and have not . . . chosen to invest at a level that would preserve that commanding lead.” Six separate nations and the European Space Agency are now capable of sending sophisticated satellites and spacecraft into orbit — and more are on the way….” - Source

Businessman could hold Solution to Nation’s energy crisis

This guy needs major support if his technology works as claimed.

“The “Rivera Method” - takes such agricultural refuse as cracked soy beans, rice and cotton seed hulls, grain sorghum, milo and jatropha and turns them into bio-crude oil. This crude - or Vertroleum, as Rivera calls it - can then be refined further into everything from gasoline to jet fuel and just about every petrochemical in between. What’s more, Rivera claims that products made from Vertroleum burn at near 100 percent efficiency, leaving behind neither heat nor pollution as proof of the chemical reactions taking place. To demonstrate, Rivera set fire to two samples of oil. The first sample - a few drops of conventional petroleum - burned briefly before dying out, leaving behind only wisps of black smoke and an unmistakable smell. The second sample - Rivera’s Vertroleum - not only produced a taller flame longer but was decidedly absent of both smoke and smell. For further proof, plant workers cranked up both a large industrial engine block and a four-wheeler powered by Vertroleum gasoline to display the fuel’s compatibility with today’s combustion engines. Even after a few minutes of operation, the engine block was cool to the touch while the four-wheeler’s exhaust pipe seemed to emit little more than warm, odorless air. For more information on Vertroleum and Sustainable Power Corp, visit www.sustainablepower.com / “The company Sustainable Power Corp. claims to have created a form of bio-crude oil from agricultural refuse. They use agro-waste from cracked soy beans, rice and cotton seed hulls, grain sorghum, milo, and jatropha and turn it into bio-crude oil. This crude can then be further refined into everything from gasoline to jet fuel and just about every petrochemical in between. The CEO is quoted: ‘Our biggest problem is that we are too good to be true. We can literally replace every gallon of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel in the United States using just 12 percent of the waste byproducts in the country.’ They also claim that their fuel burns to near 100 percent efficiency.” - Source

Nanomaterials More Dangerous Than We Think

Something to consider when in an earlier post, mention is made of using copper nano-rods applied to cookware to increase heat transfer.

“A Canadian panel of leading scientists warns that nanomaterials appearing in a rapidly growing number of products might potentially be able to enter cells and interfere with biological processes. According to a story in the Globe and Mail, the Council of Canadian Academies concluded that ‘there are inadequate data to inform quantitative risk assessments on current and emerging nanomaterials… Their small size, the report says, may allow them “to usurp traditional biological protective mechanisms” and, as a result, possibly have “enhanced toxicological effects.”‘ The council is an independent academic advisory group funded by the federal government, but operating at arms-length from Ottawa. The 16-member panel that wrote the new report included some of Canada’s leading scientists and top international experts on nanomaterials.” - Source

The Moon as backup drive for civilization

This is exactly how the world needs to think about the moon, as our backup in the event of major, civilization crippling catastrophes.

“Imaginative new ideas for using space to protect civilization against existential risks, such as killer asteroids, nuclear war, and global terrorism, are in the works. The public increasingly sees NASA as irrelevant; we need a revitalized new vision of space, says a new breed of space activists. Backing up civilization’s collective hard drive—its recorded archive—on the Moon and creating a self-sufficient colony there precisely so it can act as a lifeboat in case a calamity strikes Earth: that’s the rationale for a new book from Forge Books, The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth, according to author William E. Burrows. “That should be the overarching reason for moving there, not to mine resources or for the sake of a grand adventure. And the move outward must start with the Moon, not Mars. The Moon is three or four days away, not a year, so it makes logistical sense and is cheaper. And if there’s an accident on the Moon, help or a safe haven are likewise four days away. Finally, the lunar colony ought to be NASA’s overriding (but not only) mission, especially since it walked off a cliff after Apollo. That’s what the book is about. It’s my gift to the home planet.” - Source

Recycling Dirty Plastic

This could be a very big deal since orthodox methods require the plastic be cleaned before recycling.

“Mr Howells, from Cycloplas, started working on his idea, which transforms unwashed and unsorted plastic into a range of products, in 1992 when he came up with a concept to produce pipes from waste. Last year his invention earned him an Australian patent, and it has patent applications pending in the US, Japan and 20 European countries. He said that each year Australia produced in the order of 1.69 million tonnes of plastic waste and recycled just 190,000 tonnes. Mike Hely, from Country Energy, said: “Bill’s invention is unique in that it transforms previously unusable plastic into a range of viable products. “Other plastic recycling technologies now available require the plastics to be washed and sorted. The new products are also recyclable.” - Source