Jon Starbuck’s blog exposing pseudo-green nonsense, promoting science and critical thinking.
Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I’m really sorry to report that Automotive Ecology in the Netherlands are still selling Oil Drum’s Fuel Saver several years after the product was show to not work by the UK Government’s vehicle testing station at Millbroke. Indeed it and all other HHO fuel saving gizmos cannot work. Continue reading ‘Automotive Ecology, still selling snake oil.’ »
Hydro Go is just another “run your car on water” clone. 
It is a variation of a silly idea which has been kicking about since the 1970s. If it worked then it would have been installed into every car on the road decades ago.
But it was in the Metro?
Yes, idiots at Metro did run an advert for them. There was also a nonsense article in the Newark Advertiser (though it does appear to have been pulled from the Newark Advertiser’s website, luckily I have a copy). And this dreadful article in Living Local.
This article is reproduced from here. For some reason it has been taken down from his blog… I have the intention of writing this very post on this blog, and I may well still do so, but for now here is someone else’s…
Just to be clear, this is not a scam! It is, however, a really good example of really sloppy journalism.
Some poor 13-year-old kid is all over the news as having made a “solar breakthrough”. The news is to blame. All the usual suspects — popular environment blogs, tech magazines — blindly parrot the words of this very misinformed (not to blame him, he’s an unguided 13 year old) kid. Continue reading ‘Solar-panel “trees” really are inferior (or: “In which hopelessly inept journalists reduce me to having to debunk a school science project”)’ »
According to an undated “news” article from 2010 on Ringway’s own website they are trialing a “revolutionary Hydrogen Fuel Injector” which they think has “the potential to reduce fuel costs across the entire group’s fleet by up to 20% as well as a significant reduction on carbon emissions”.
Sound familiar? Yep, it is just another run-your-car-on-water-scam clone.
Continue reading ‘Ringway / Eurovia taken in by HHO scam?’ »
Here we have two large vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT) mounted on the roof of a ferry that shoots about the San Francisco Bay, I spied it North of San Francisco from Angel Island today.
Continue reading ‘Wind turbines powering a ferry in San Francisco?’ »
[Update - The ASA has upheld a complaint by CNG Services which basically says that H2GoGo do not have the robust scientific evidence from Millbroke that they claim to have and therefore they are lying on their website when they claim to achieve a 40% reduction in emissions and when they claim "h2gogo has submitted its hydrogen generators to the full scrutiny of the world- renowned and respected Millbrook Vehicle Emissions Laboratory, with resounding success". BULLSHIT!! Good work ASA!!]
The latest HHO, run-your-car-on-water, style product to be drawn to my attention is H2gogo.com - It is interesting because the makers do not quite make the same goofy claims that makers of other products of its type; instead of claiming it will save fuel and increase performance they claim it will decrease your vehicle’s nasty exhaust emissions and may possibly save fuel and may possibly increase performance.
For years now I have ranted about how HHO is nonsense, that it cannot possibly save you any fuel, how anyone selling the “technology” is either deluded or a con man (or both).
It turns out that I am a little bit wrong about this, there is a tiny bit of truth to it after all! (However you should still not touch it with a barge pole!)
Continue reading ‘HHO and why I have been a little bit wrong about it.’ »
Stolen from The Guardian, here are a few real ways to save fuel when driving that actually will work. Note not one of them is a magic HHO gyzmo, I wonder why that is?
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Hypermilers say there are many others ways for motorists to save money – and reduce emissions – simply by reappraising the way you drive.
Continue reading ‘A few real ways to save fuel when driving’ »
Magnatechfuel.com sell a magnetic fuel saving gizmo that is as old as the hills and which has been shown, many times, to be complete nonsense with no scientific or plausible method by which it could possibly be true.
Continue reading ‘Magnatech Fuel Conditioning cannot work.’ »
GreenCell Technologies http://greencelltek.com/ are a Canadian HHO, run-your-car-on-water, hydrogen-on-demand scam.
This is a very old “technology”, it has been kicking about for decades, there is no known plausible method by which it could work and no one has ever shown it to work. What is more, every time this ”technology” has been subjected to proper scientific tests it has been shown to reduce engine efficiency and increase fuel consumption.
Continue reading ‘GreenCell Technologies - HHO scam in Canada’ »