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Old 03-17-2011, 07:28 PM   #138 (permalink)
orange4boy
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Tried Magnets on my Volvo 280 ten years ago at the urging of a friend who was selling them as a sideline. He gave me a set to try out claiming they worked but knowing more than he did about engines, I was utterly unconvinced. I put them on anyway just for the hell of it because at that time I had not done any research on the matter.

They did nothing.

What helped was taking off my roof racks.

Magnetism is very well understood by scientists. It can be used for many seemingly "magical" things but aligning gasoline molecules to boost fuel efficiency isn't one of them. Even if they did this, which they don't, the molecules would become unaligned almost immediately due to fluid dynamics between the magnet and the combustion chamber.
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Vortex generators are old tech. My new and improved vortex alternators are unstoppable.

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