Re: Fred's question

[RC Macaulay]

Is the enhanced engine performance on rainy-misty > days due to cooling >of the compression stoke air > by vaporization of the added water or is there > something in the water mist-droplets giving > some free energy? > > Not noticeable on dry winter days, but it is > when driving on snowy ones. > > Fred And Howdy again, Richard, I think Fred's question:     ================================        "is there something in the water     mist-droplets giving some free     energy?"     ================================ is a very good one, and, since you've never struck me as a fence sitter, I'm a tad surprised that you haven't answered it. For that matter it would be very interesting to see how many other Vortexians are prepared to stand up and be counted on this one way or the other, including of course, Fred himself.  8-) As for myself, because of the confluence of evidence I have absolutely no doubt that the mist vapour is indeed giving you some free energy and not merely improving efficiency.    Cheers, Frank Howdy Fred and Frank, Fence sitting can result in all sorts of stange results and has no place in Vorts where the wild and free fear no evil. We once were testing a "shape" for a distributor with a segment of a parabolic cut cavity. The induction of air was so great and the velocity shear at the periphery of the rotating member so high that we actually percipitated the mineral from the water via oxidation. For some time I have thought we were  looking at the result from the wrong direction. Perhaps it was good we didn't have an open flame near. Richard