The problem was that the engines > were not in a vehicle but in a test stand and actual numbers were not > verified.
This is one of those special cases where the engine only has to move it's own weight, via a weightless, frictionless, 100% efficient drivetrain I guess. Man, I've wanted one of those for years.... My running shoes theoretically can run a marathon every morning too. The only problem is that they're on my lazy feet in the office and have to move me around..... If they were grams per horsepower-hour numbers, or kWh per BTU or something of those units from the fancy vaporizing carbureator or different fuel mixtures or additives, I could at least believe that a serious test was done, but the fact that they translated whatever real results they got, via weegey board numbers for rolling resistance, drivetrain resistance, air resistance, etc... into some "estimated" miles per gallon, is what makes me think that they were just made up. If they assumed the same rest-of-vehicle efficiency as the existing carbureated car (about 20mpg tops), then we have to assume that they measured 5 times the engine efficiency, which I can't believe. If they assumed a different car, then what were those assumptions? By the way, I also saw claims that the plug-in prius can get 120mpg or more -- because of course it is largely using stored electricity for the first 20 miles. Another case of someone failing elementary physics and not doing an energy balance on the system. If some new "invention" or breakthrough can't pass this basic test, I usually automatically dismiss anything further, whether it's my area of expertise or not. Because I DO understand the first law of thermodynamics. It's darned annoying at times, but I haven't found away around it yet..... _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
