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!!

I can’t believe it, but it is true… and so depressing as well…

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, 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 nice if they had thought to check if the product actually worked while they were at it…

Here is the link to an article from the UKC Media team. You can also find out loads more about the prize, where the money came from, who the judges were and so on from the video on the Sittingbourne Enterprise Hub website, the £20,000 prize money came from the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) (so it is public, taxpayer’s, money). Read the rest of this entry »

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? Read the rest of this entry »

Another Joseph W. Newman style scam: http://www.magnets4energy.com/ has appeared, there is a new one just about every month. Read the rest of this entry »

Another scam on Facebook, “Don’t Buy Solar Panels - Make Your Own!” at http://www.mysolarplans.com is just another name for www.GreenDIYEnergy.com which is, at worst, simply a scam, and at the least it is VERY misleading; you can’t make your own solar electric PV panels from components you find at the hardware store… not without smashing up a set of garden lights or something anyway, and if you did that you would not end up with a decent size, efficient, usable system, let alone anything comparable to a system at “$27,000 average  cost”. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Oliver from waterboost.co.uk (yet another HHO scam in the UK), has emailed me to say (among a load of truly odd and random comments) I should be very careful what I say to or about him and his company and their products as I don’t want to end up in a court room with him. Read the rest of this entry »

[ More on Neil & Sam Prendergast's HHO scam sites here ]

I recently had my attention brought to an HHO, “run your car on water”, “water for fuel”, “water boost” scam in the UK. Hydrocharger used to clam all sorts of nonsense on their site, they used to claim to be able to reduce your fuel bill by 25% using a system which has been shown over and over to be a scam.

Hydrocharger’s address is in Bolton, UK, Samantha Jane Prendergast is the Managing Director with her husband Neil. Neil and Sam Prendergast were also the founders of an old US based HHO scam “Water Fuel Expert“, they are also responsible for two more UK based HHO scams WaterMotive Ltd and Water4GasUK.

Note I say “used to“; since originally writing this article and reporting Hydrocharger to Trading Standards, Hydrocharger have changed their website a lot, one key example is that they no longer claim a “25% saving” in fuel, now they simply say that “most drivers notice a marked improvement”. However there are still many false statements on the Hydrocharger site and Sam & Neil Prendergast ’s other sites still contain all the same old lies.

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I have just been asked about what I think about yet another HHO, hydrogen on demand, miracle, “double your milage”, physics defying system.

Hydro Runner may have a nice website, well above the average for its type, but it is still a scam.

I have blogged extensively about HHO Scams in the past and, despite its shiny website, I can assure you that this is no different. The technology is complete bullshit and their test results are fabricated, the entire thing is a big con.

I’m going to be passing Tarpon Springs soon, maybe I’ll pop in on them.

The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science

By ROBERT L. PARK

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is investing close to a million dollars in an obscure Russian scientist’s antigravity machine, although it has failed every test and would violate the most fundamental laws of nature. The Patent and Trademark Office recently issued Patent 6,362,718 for a physically impossible motionless electromagnetic generator, which is supposed to snatch free energy from a vacuum. And major power companies have sunk tens of millions of dollars into a scheme to produce energy by putting hydrogen atoms into a state below their ground state, a feat equivalent to mounting an expedition to explore the region south of the South Pole.
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Platinum Injection System, Platinum-based combustion enhancers, PVI, CTech 3000… all bullshit…

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