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At www.hydrotechnix.com they promise to teach you the secret of saving up to 50% on your car’s fuel bill for a mere £1500 on a course they run in Spain. A barging if it were true, but it is not… it is another HHO run-your-car-on-water scam clone, complete nonsense.

They also manufacture some technical-looking hydrogen generators which cost a lot of money, unfortunately they won’t save you any fuel either because HHO fuel savers are a scam.

Hydrotechnix is Richard Bird of 40 Trelleck Road, Reading, Berkshire in the UK (although he claims that this is the address of an elderly lady, his mother, and not him – why his registered business address is his mother’s house is not explained).

Richard Bird  also is something to do with http://www.partzone.co.uk/

Richard likes to boast that he has a lot of proof that HHO works and that I have none that it does not work.

Of course it is a logical fallacy to demand that I prove that it does not work since science cannot prove a negative, and besides the burden of proof is on him since he, and not me, is the one claiming something.

So far Richard has presented me with no prof that HHO works, he has shown me some scientific papers but when you look closely at them and talk to the people that wrote them you find that they don’t say what Richard thinks they do. He has either not read them properly or has just cherry picked the bits he liked (or both).

The fact is that all of the proof that he has shown me is nothing of the sort. Please read the comments below for more information on this.

Richard Bird is either mistaken or a con man or both, either way Hydrotechnix cannot and will not save you any fuel, they cannot and do not do what Hydrotechnix and Richard Bird say they do.

I have been blogging about HHO for years now. One of the tools I use to try to explain to people that this “technology” does not work is that if it did work then it would have been investigated by a university somewhere, however because any scientist with any idea of their subject can see that this “technology” is preposterous claptrap, that it cannot possibly work, no scientist or university will touch it.

In all the years I have been following “hydrogen-hybrids” I have never seen any proof whatsoever that it works… and the reason that I have never seen any proof is because it does not work.

That is until now… Continue reading ‘Hydrox Solutions, more pseudo-science with university endorsement’ »

I’m not sure about the latest Hydrocharger site I have found, Torry e Garage. They are defiantly selling HHO, “technology” which does not work.

They are also connected to the brain injury charity Brainhelp.

Despite what it says on its side, this car does not run on water.

Their website has all the same pseudo-scientific claptrap as all the run-your-car-on-water, HHO, hydrogen-hybrid websites; none of it makes any scientific sense whatsoever. This “technology” does not work, it is a scam, and anyone that tells you otherwise is either mistaken or conning you.

If you can be bothered to read their “how does HHO work?” page you will notice that they contradict themselves several times and admit that they are not just adding HHO but also fitting an EFIE.

EFIEs are illegal, and with good reason. They greatly increase your vehicle’s emissions and damage the engine. Any fuel savings you experience are down to the EFIE and not the HHO, your savings will be very small (2% maybe) and at the expense of your engine and the environment.

They claim that you will ”get a minimum of 25% increase in MPG”. This is an outrageous lie, nothing short of criminal. HHO does not work so they cannot have any data or evidence to back up this claim. And anyway, where is this extra 25% of energy coming from? It is not coming from the fuel or the HHO, so it is either not true or somehow  Torry e Garage have broken the laws of physics – which do you think is more likely?

Carbon Clean Direct is another HHO, run-your-car-on-water, hydrogen hybrid (or whatever you/they want to call it today, it is all the same thing) scam which I have been blogging about for years. Their product does not work, indeed cannot work, it is preposterous pseudo-scientific nonsense.

They claim to be able to reduce you vehicle’s fuel consumption by 25%, but where does this 25% come from? An engine in good working order will burn in excess of 99% of its fuel leaving less than 1% unburned, so even if their unit made the engine 100% efficient the gain would be less then 1%, not the 25% these jokers claim. And the 40% reduction in emissions, where do they get that figure from? It is bullshit, it cannot possibly be true, so I can only guess they just made it up.

Nowhere on their website as any proof offered, no science, no scientist, no lab, no papers, no nothing. Why? Because it does not work! It is a scam!

There is no name, address or phone number on their web site – what a funny way to conduct business. Nevertheless I can tell you they are no less than Daniel Smith and Chris Clark – 07971313822, 018448871676, chris.clark@carboncleandirect.com and daniel.smith@carboncleandirect.com – allegedly at 130 Colmore Road, Birmingham (England) which is right on the edge of Victoria Square in Birmingham city centre… so I’m a bit dubious if it is a real address.

The domain name is registered to New Visual Media.

Search the Bolton Evening News for Hydrocharger and you will find several articles parroting the virtues of this company… a company who are known to be selling a product that does not work. It would seem in the desperate fight to fill column-inches reporters at the paper have totally failed to investigate any of the outrageous claims made by this company and just printed their lies verbatim.

Samantha and Neil Prendergast of Hydrocharger are also responsible for WaterMotive Ltd and Water4GasUK and Tranztec UK, three more UK based HHO scams. Neil and Sam Prendergast were also the founders of “Water Fuel Expert“, an old USA based HHO scam. I wonder if there are any more I have missed?

Of course I have pointed this out to the Bolton Evening News, I have sent them several emails and made a couple of phone calls, I have even had assurances from some that my “allegations” were “being investigated”. But months later the four articles are there on line for anyone to read.

And, most mind-numbing of all, is Hydrocharger’s nomination for the award of “Start-up Business of the Year”!! See Bolton and Bury Business Awards and Business Bolton for more on this scary prospect.

I can only assume that either The Bolton Evening News are in on the scam, which I doubt, or they are spineless and can’t admit they are wrong and are hoping I will go away or shut up and stop pointing out how dumb they are being.

The four offending articles are:

• Fuel saver is way ahead
• Couple’s hopes for fuel-saver
• This year’s finalists
• Trade mission bids to foster links with India

James Higgins, Assistant Editor, assured me he was looking into the matter, as did Wes Wright. Nevertheless the articles are still on the paper’s website and Hydrocharger are still listed as being short-listed as possible winners for “Start-up Business of the Year”.

Does failing to act, given the information I have supplied, make these people complicit in the scam? I’m not sure.

James Higgins said:

We will not be removing anything from our website until we have proof to the contrary of what the people behind Hydrocharger claim. As you can probably imagine, we need to research this issue properly. We cannot simply take claims made in a couple odd internet articles to be gospel. That woudl be bad journalism.

… which is retarded to say the least! They printed several articles based on no proof whatsoever, having done no research, and are suggesting that they won’t remove the articles until they see proof to say that the claims are wrong (that would be science backwards). What is worse journalism; printing rubbish without checking your facts or refusing to remove it when it is pointed out to you?

Other people contacted are Ian Savage ian.savage@theboltonnews.co.uk and Andrew Mosley amosley@theboltonnews.co.uk .

myhydrogen.co.uk are just another example of HHO, run-your-car-on-water scams popping up in the UK in recent months.

It is the same old bullshit about being able to cut your fuel bills, in this case by 10% to 40%…Â but they provide no evidence whatsoever to back up these preposterous claims and no method by which it could work.

Why do the have no evidence? Because it does not work, it is a lie.

Why do they have no explanation for how it works? Because it would defy physics if it did, there is no explanation which makes and scientific sense. Where would this extra 10 % to 40% of energy come from? It is such obvious claptrap!

It is just another scam, I’m reporting them to Cornwall Trading Standards. Meanwhile save your money, these are con-men out to defraud you not entrepreneurs trying to save you money or the environment.

Continue reading ‘myhydrogen.co.uk – yet another HHO scam in the UK’ »

HHO Tek, an American pseudo-green company, actually a company selling several scams, have popped up in UK / Europe in a town called Mountain Ash which is about 10 miles north of Cardiff in South Wales.

HHO Tec’s website has improved massively since I last saw it, and so has the sophistication and language used, but it is all risible nonsense, all bullshit dressed up as science, all a complete scam, con men after your money while pretending to be trying to save you cash and the environment at the same time.

Continue reading ‘HHOTec bring their scam from the USA to the UK’ »

Update on this story here.

UKC endorse, award and invest in pseudo-science!
The University of Kent at Canterbury (my old university where I studies Physics for four years) and a whole load of Kent local government and other public bodies have been taken in by some pseudo-science so completely that they have endorsed it, awarded it £20,000 of public money and invested in the company!!

Oil-drum.co.uk / save-fuel.co.uk won the “Kent Innovation Challenge 2008” despite their being no proof whatsoever that the product they sell works (in fact it cannot work).

Oil Drum Limited were asked to give a two minute presentation and were the grilled by a Dragon’s Den style panel who were, I presume, looking for a product which was green, saved carbon, was innovative and used the phrase “renewable energy” in the presentation… Oil Drum Limited may have ticked all the boxes the panel were looking for but it would have been a good idea for the panel to check to see if the product actually worked or if it actually was “renewable”.

You can find out loads more about the 2008 award from a video made by the folks that gave the award, Sittingbourne Enterprise Hub.

The £20,000 prize money came from the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) (so it is taxpayer’s money), who in turn got it from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Continue reading ‘Oil Drum Limited awarded prize for product that cannot work’ »

Samantha and Neil Prendergast of Hydrocharger are also responsible for WaterMotive Ltd and Water4GasUK and Tranztec UK, three more UK based HHO scams. Neil and Sam Prendergast were also the founders of “Water Fuel Expert“, an old USA based HHO scam. I wonder if there are any more I have missed? Continue reading ‘WaterMotive Ltd, Water4GasUK, Tranztec UK – more Hydrocharger websites’ »

While compiling a list names and addresses of HHO, run-your-car-on-water, scammers in the UK for Trading Standards I cam across some that I was previously unaware of.

Just to be clear, these guys do not sell a product which works, it is a scam. Continue reading ‘Magdrive and Water-For-Fuel-UK, more HHO scams in the UK’ »