Fuel Saver - Is this a gimic?

Originally Posted by Grinch

Foxes tend to steal your lunch, but yes they are the more stealthy option.

I find the dogs do the same...and then when they get bored because you've left the bike parked up, they rip the seats to peices

Mine must be more loyal then yours, if your real flash then you can go for the wolf alarm, but you need to watch out for it going rabid.

WTF....?

Awh, missed out on the fun...

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

How do you think a generator/altanator works?

Thats a little different thats a magnet moving past a coil and causing a current. That still needs metal... Metal that isnt in Petrol, not anymore...

Originally Posted by jamesrichardson

magnets can work on pretty much everything, its just depends what you're trying to do with the magnets. yes, ferrous materials are needed for magnets to stick to it, but there are other uses for magnets eg MRI scanners, NMR (uses same principles) etc

Thats still different. You need a SHED load of power to make that work and I dont think a car could produce that power to MRI scan the fuel as it flows past

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by krhall

http://www.spongecars.com/fuelsaver/how.htm

Just seen this and it would be well worth anyone buying one of these for a 10-27% saving.....is it just a gimic?

Total b0llocks.

Originally Posted by G

The science behind it may be accurate.

It isn't.

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

Thats a little different thats a magnet moving past a coil and causing a current. That still needs metal... Metal that isnt in Petrol, not anymore...

Metal of the magnet, I don't think the conductor would actually need to be metallic for this to work. Also the lead in petrol was TEL which being an organic compound, I'd bet £0.01 doesn't conduct... So didn't make a difference with 4 star either...

Anyway. Don't buy one.

Chris

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Metal of the magnet, I don't think the conductor would actually need to be metallic for this to work. Also the lead in petrol was TEL which being an organic compound, I'd bet ?0.01 doesn't conduct... So didn't make a difference with 4 star either...

Anyway. Don't buy one.

Chris

I suspect that any activity could be due to surface catalysis reactivity; but this would be pretty poor given petrol is, mostly, alkanes, and therefore won't absorb so great onto the surface.

I also suspect that it dosn't have any neodynium in the product

And tetra ethyl lead won't conduct electricity either, you are correct. Well, maybe it will when cooled to a few deg.C above zero...but i doubt it

Matt

I'm still laughing at this!

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

I'm still laughing at this!

I'm still over analysing it

For some reason I am still reading this thread...