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Originally Posted by metro094
You can add platinum particles to your fuel and get it to burn much more completely, reducing emissions and increasing power. Problem is that platinum is terribly expensive. Hence the platinum plate in your converter - much cheaper than an ongoing gas additive.
I hear people say that 99% of the fuel is being burned in your engine, so there's no room for improvement, but I don't think that 99% is burning at the right time and place in the engine to all be applied as force against the piston, so there should be room for improvement to the actual combustion event itself.
I haven't seen any credible proof yet that the hyrdogen injection works, but the possiblilty certainly is there. I have watched while a guy ran an engine on straight water. The problem is that it won't start that way, and it won't operate under load. It just keeps it from stalling.
The argument of "if it worked, they'd be doing it" doesn't hold either. Most of what is being done is due to the narrowmindednes and inflexibility of the EPA, not for the purpose of saving fuel. All of our engines come with preset f/a mixture settings that minimize emissions,
I think we could all get about an instant 10% improvement in mileage just by reprogramming our computers or by altering O2 sensor output. We would just increase our emissions.
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Hi, "Metro"!
In looking over the latest batch of postings, I came across yours (above). I'm responding (reacting? LOL) to some of these:
Platinum in the fuel? The converter is post-combustion ( no power here, platinum or otherwise) and platinum in the gas is a whole different kettle of fish ( combustion chemistry). Without discussing the merits (?) of this...let's just say " Bring lot$ of money!"
" 99% of the fuel is not burning at the right time." Correcto mundo! How few people see this properly. The speed of the flame front is so quick ( and the crank rotation is so small ) there is little advantage to having all the pressure event occur near the piston TDC. This is a small rod angle ( rod angularity translates to lever arm against the crank journal)... even though the flywheel energy storage helps to overcome this "downward push". There exists a definite need for "something" to slow the flame front... to spread this pressure increase over more of the rod's angle. This is exactly the reasoning behind my combustion modifier. Water VAPOR injection also achieves the same effect - and the results are dramatic ( Proof? Yeah, I have proof. My new ScanGauge tells all ... as did my old(er) SpaceKom analog MPG computer).
EPA is a bureaucratic nightmare ... too much power - and power corrupts, right? To have EPA test my concept(s) I merely need to come up with 30ish thousand dollars - IF I could convince "them" the idea was worth testing! I have been there, done this. I'm not going back. Even Congress can't change EPA's mind. Sad state of affairs.... But, be sure to vote! Right....
Straight water? No...water plus H2 is not straight water. It is a mix.
"Emissions" is the name of this game we are playing. Consumers of energy are merely pawns in a giant che$$ game. If "we" could just get the energy industries ( coal, oil, natural gas) to see anything beyond their balance sheet
mentality..."we" might save our future.
"We have met the enemy, and they is us." -Pogo