According to Klein's fans, he "got 100 miles out of 4 ounces of water".
But did he burn 3 quarts of crankcase oil, in addition? After all, this was done in a 12 year old Ford Escort, which starts buring as much oil after the first 100k miles as gasoline. Klein goes on to say in the same paragraph of the press release that his invention increases the mileage per gallon of gasoline by 30%. Does that sound like a claim for self-power from the Brown's gas alone ?
OK, ++please++ do not misinterpret that comment as relating to Fred's insight and R&D efforts.
Lest that assessment of Klein sound too skeptical, let me add that those efforts are definitely on the right track with the Helmholtz-layer capacitor explanation for the mechanics. Right on. This diatribe is directed soley towards Mr. Klein and the latest incarnation of the Florida watercar scam.
Klein is long overdue getting the kind of negative comments which he deserves, instead of the glowing inanity from those who should know-better ... I am constantly amazed at the seeming gullibility of many good-intentioned lay-people, so-to-speak (and the state of Florida seems to have most of them) when the magic word 'hydrgogen' or 'water-fuel' is mentioned in print - with gradiose claims attached.
Klein's prior and ongoing asssociation with Santilli, and the joint patent application, and the whole stink of this announcement - and the hudreds of disgruntled Florida investors (mostly retirees) would make me NOT want to mention anything Klein/Santilli has supposedly accomplished, as it may only induce more people to invest with him. Here we have another Dennis Lee borderline scam, but this time without the Bible, apparently. Maybe he has a Bible ready too, in case the potential investor gets cold feet.
Not to mention the whole episode reads more like a PR stunt than the work of a serious scientist. What I am seeing here is the typical Florida-based (as in 'snow-bird' retirees) pump-and-dump scam, perfected by Santilli over 15 years, but now with a new name attached. How can you repatent "Bown's gas" anyway? But it is a bit less than any real scam becasue there is some truth to it! It is the perfect vehicle to stay "inside-the-law" by attaching the typical boilerplate caveat.
Having said that, the really sad part of the whole scenario is that there is an almost 100% certainty that the addition of self-generated Brown's gas to an ICE will result in an improved burn and a significant reduction in gasoline usage, even when you balance that against the extra energy used from the alternator to produce the gas.
But Klein is only the latest of several dozen inventors (maybe hundreds if you throw in the Joe-Cel) to see this very real phenomenon at work.
You can even buy the electroyzers on the the internet nowadays! Why invest with a copy cat?
The problem is - we have known about this improvemnt for a long time, as there was someone before Brown, even - and yet Detroit has yet to take notice of it - in the form of a professionally engineered engine. Now that is the real problem, as there will always be scams and gullible Floridians ... After all, look who they elected as governor.
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