Quote from Tracy McGreedy:
They own all supercarbeurator patents.
Government, Big Business Prevent Marketing of Super High Mileage Carburetors
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If you think it is just C.F.C.s affecting the ozone layer that cause these problems consider this - the average person uses just ounces a year in spray cans and refrigerants, but thousands of liters of gasoline.
Your posts are both somewhat entertaining and emotive, as conspiracy theories tend to be. However, like most other conspiracy theories, your posts don't take into account fundamental laws, in this case both patent laws and laws of nature.
On the subject of internal combustion engines, which it appears is a subject that you have little knowledge of, you are very misinformed. Many people for many years have tried to improve the efficiency of the internal combustion engine with the same fervour and ignorance of the alchemists attempting to transmute lead into gold.
An internal combustion engine is inefficient because of basic fundamental thermodynamic issues. The engine works by burning the fuel mixed with air, creating hot gases that expand, pushing against the piston. As the piston moves upwards the gases expand further and cool down. The power from the engine â the work done by burning the fuel â derives from the hot gas doing its thing and cooling down. The work obtained is therefore at most the difference in energy between the hot gas and the cool gas.
The efficiency of the engine can be improved by allowing the gas in the engine to get hotter, thus the difference between hot and cooling is greater â more work is extracted. Although the maximum temperature is dependent on the materials that the engine is made of - at high temperature metals melt and burn. Engines will perhaps one day be made of ceramics, but for now ceramics arenât tough enough to withstand the rigours of the engine cycles.
So what is the efficiency of an internal combustion engine? Unfortunately it turns out that of all the energy obtained by burning the fuel in the engine, at least a third is lost as heat from the engine into the cooling system, and at least a third goes out the exhaust pipe as hot gas.
So what difference does a carburettor make to the efficiency of the engine? Virtually none! Now thereâs no doubt that the carburettor makes a big difference to whether the engine runs correctly, but thereâs really nothing it can do about how much heat is lost to the cooling system, and how much heat goes out the exhaust, or energy lost to friction. The best way to reduce fuel consumption in a car is simply to use a smaller engine!
The reason way there are so many reports of âsuper-carburettorsâ developed by lone inventors is because changing the carburettor is the easiest and safest way for a unskilled backyard-tinkerer with no knowledge of how an engine works to fiddle with the engine without causing it to blow up or simply stop working. Perhaps they think that âcrackingâ the fuel (a process that actually uses up energy) or otherwise manipulating it somehow makes the fuel more powerful. Unfortunately it appears all too easy for such âinventorsâ to convince others that they have overcome the fundamental laws of conservation of energy and thermodynamics.
Besides which, there is nothing stopping anyone from anywhere in the world looking at a granted patent publication and building the system to try out for themselves. That is the entire point of publishing patents, to disperse the information to the public.
The other fundamental flaw appears to be the overlooked issue that these patents cited by people (apparently all owned by oil companies) are generally only granted in the US. The majority of cars produced are not produced in the US, and an even smaller proportion are sold in the US. Anyone anywhere else in the world where the patent is not granted can make and produce the magical systems described in these patents to there heartâs content without any legal impediment.
Oh, also CFCs and the ozone layer - very different issue to greenhouse gases and global warming.