Jones Beene wrote. > > Don't know what happened to Fred Sparber's SS "light switch plate" > electrolyzer, > It has been on the 93 GMC pickup for weeks undergoing performance testing by my lackey. :-) Lackey says,"Improved mileage and pep".
I'm spending my time figuring how "String Fractals" (Positron-Electron Pairing} get set up to give the WaterFuel it's kick. Fred > > but here is a simple one being built and used in > automobiles by many tinkerers. It is said to be especially > effective with biodiesel: > > http://waterpoweredcar.com/hydrobooster2.html > > and using the same Home Despot type switch plates - but there are > other design on the net, some a cross between the JC tubes and the > BG plates, some said to be better than this. > > You can do the math on this crude device and postulate that if the > assertions were both an accurate portrayal of fuel savings (about > 15%) AND if this were required by government on every new car > (professionally built version), the savings on imported oil would > amount to tens of billions of dollars on a nationwide basis.... > > Why didn't Detroit come out with an improved version of this a few > years ago ... <rhetorical question> > > Those billions which coulda-shoulda stayed in the good old USA is > money which as of now - goes to our "friends" in the middle-east, > but somehow ends up in roadside bombs, killing our young men who > are fighting there ... ? Go figure. > > Now if you had this hydrobooster device (professionally built > version) running on a biodiesel plug-in hybrid... could you get to > the elusive 100 MPG ... <rhetorical question, the answer of which > is 'yes'> > > Jones > > Oh ... as to where all that biodiesel can come from ... Maybe not > the Sonoran desert alone (how ya gonna flood that much land), but > what about the shallow waters in the Gulf of Mexico? Methinks we > explored some of these pro-and-con considerations for using ocean > algae a while back. > > I suspect the nay-sayers may be more amenable to that > alternative - as time goes by. Even if it takes 10 times more > ocean than the 15,000 square miles of desert, that is only a tiny > fraction of the available resource. Plus we can convert the old > oil platforms into off-shore diodiesel factories <g> > > "NREL's research showed that one quad (7.5 billion gallons) of > biodiesel could be produced from 200,000 hectares of desert land > (200,000 hectares is equivalent to 780 square miles, roughly > 500,000 acres), if the remaining challenges are solved (as they > will be, with several research groups and companies working > towards it, including ours at UNH). In the previous section, we > found that to replace all transportation fuels in the US, we would > need 140.8 billion gallons of biodiesel, or roughly 19 quad! s > (one quad is roughly 7.5 billion gallons of biodiesel). To produce > that amount would require a land mass of almost 15,000 square > miles. To put that in perspective, consider that the Sonora desert > in the southwestern US comprises 120,000 square miles. Enough > biodiesel to replace all petroleum transportation fuels could be > grown in 15,000 square miles, or roughly 12.5 percent of the area > of the Sonora desert > > (note for clarification - I am not advocating putting 15,000 > square miles of algae ponds in the Sonora desert") > > >
