Jon Starbuck’s blog exposing pseudo-green nonsense, promoting science and critical thinking.
There are a number of products on the market which claim to save you money on your electricity bill using power factor correction, here is one for sale by my old friends at HHOTec. Continue reading ‘Power factor correction scams’ »
Trevor Hunter from HHOTec has been posting a lot of comments this week to my blog-post on his nonsense Platinum Fuel Saver – his comments have become so so frequent, repetitive and long that I have stopped approving them as they are becoming spam.
However Trevor has the right to reply to what I say about him, but rather than allow him to fill my blog with thousands of words all designed to draw your attention away from my point (that the product does not work and that Trevor has no proof that it does work) I am instead moving his comments, breaking them down into points and responding to them. Continue reading ‘Trevor Hunter from HHOTec / HMFSales… again…’ »
Hydrofuel-Systems‘ make an HHO, run-your-car-on-water, hydrogen hybrid fuel saving device. As is consistent with all these types of scams no proof is offered that the product works and, as I have said a million times, this is because there can’t be any proof since it does not work, it is a scam. Continue reading ‘Proof (as if we needed it) that HHO does not work’ »
“Convert Now” are the latest example of a piss-poor website full of preposterous claims and outrageous lies. They clam to be able to save you thousands of pounds using an invention which, conterray to what the site claims, has be proven again and again to be a scam.
Their Downloadable E-Book 38 Top Tips to Save Fuel is fecking hysterical. Mostly good advice, if you are retarded, on how to save fuel…
“Convert Now” appear to actually be – Oprint Ltd, Unit 54, Leyland trading Estate, Northants, Wellingborough, NN8 1RS – http://www.oprint.co.uk/
[It is worth noting that none of the companies mentioned in this post exist any more, I wonder why that is, could it be because they are all scams?]
More anonymous emails have brought my attention to more HHO scams in the UK. HHO Fuel Southwest is a scam, as is hho4u / hydrotechnixuk.co.uk.
Both sites make the same preposterous claims of reduced fuel consumption and cleaner emissions as every other pedaller of this nonsense. There is no prof that any of their claims are true for the simple reason that it is not true, it is a scam.
What is new to me is both sites claim something which I have not seen before, they claim you will be entitled to lower road-tax because you will be able to re-register your vehicle as a “hybrid”. Continue reading ‘More British HHO scams – HHO Fuel Soutwest and HHO4U’ »
The oxygen, or lambda, sensor.
An oxygen sensor, or lambda sensor, is an electronic device that measures the proportion of oxygen (O2) in a gas or liquid.
Automotive oxygen sensors, also known as O2 sensors, measure the oxygen content of the engine’s exhaust gasses. They are what makes modern electronic fuel injection and emission control possible by determining if the engine’s air-fuel ratio, its mixture, is too rich or too lean. Continue reading ‘Oxygen sensors for use with HHO’ »
Yet another anonymous emailer has drawn my attention to http://www.mileagebooster.co.uk/ and asked me for my opinion on it… really, you need to ask?
Easy, Milagebooster is a scam. See my old page on why HHO is a scam here. Continue reading ‘Mileagebooster.co.uk – HHO scam in the UK.’ »
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?
