JonStarbuck.co.uk

In response to my thorough debunking of the con-man’s fuel saving device he has threatened to give “unbiased, fair reviews” of my book.

Trevor Hunter of HHOTec sent me the following email:

trevorhunter@hhotek.com
tmrw i will be ordering a copy of your book for all of my sales reps, once i do
that they will all be entitled to write a review on amazon about the book. Im
sure that our unbiased, fair reviews will be an huge asset to the sales of your
book.
Website: www.hhotek.com
IP: 66.20.173.190

Nice.

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.

The O₂ sensor enables electronic fuel injection to control the air-fuel mixture  which enables the engine to run at its most efficient. This in turn reduces the amount of both unburned fuel and oxides of nitrogen from entering the atmosphere.

Unburned fuel is pollution in the form of air-borne hydrocarbons, while oxides of nitrogen (NO_x) gases contribute to smog and acid rain.

Information on oxygen concentration in the exhust is sent to the engine management computer (the ECU) which adjusts the amount of fuel injected into the engine to compensate for excess air or excess fuel.

The ECU attempts to maintain an average air-fuel ratio by interpreting the information it gains from the oxygen sensor with the primary goal of compromise between power, fuel economy, and emissions. In most cases this is achieved by an air-fuel-ratio close to the “stoichiometric-ratio” and ensures complete combustion.

The three types of emissions we are concerned about are:

• hydrocarbons
  (incompletely burnt fuel caused by misfiring or running rich).
• carbon monoxide
  (the result of running rich).
• oxides of nitrogen, NO_x.
  ( are the result of running lean).

Deliberately running lean
If modifications cause the engine to run lean there will be a slight increase in fuel economy. However this will be at the expense of increased NO_x emissions, a higher exhaust gas temperatures and a loss of power.
At ultra-lean air-to-fuel ratios engine damage is inevitable.

Deliberately running rich
If modifications cause the engine to run rich then there will be a slight increase in power to a point, after which the engine starts “flooding”. However this will be at the cost of decrease in fuel economy and an increase in unburned hydrocarbons in the exhaust which causes backfire and overheating of the catalytic converter.
Prolonged operation at rich mixtures will cause failure of the catalytic converter.

Timing
The ECU also controls the spark engine timing along with the fuel injector pulse width, so modifications which alter the engine to operate either too lean or too rich may result in inefficient fuel consumption whenever fuel is ignited too soon or too late in the combustion cycle.

The EFIE
An EFIE (electronic fuel injection enhancer) as a small electronic device which fits between the O₂ sensor and the ECU. It modifies the signal sent to the ECU to fool it into running the engine too rich (greater power) or too lean (greater economy).

However using an EFIE will be detrimental to the emissions control, may well damage the engine and is almost certainly illegal.

Oxygen sensors and HHO
Pedallers of HHO or “hydrogen hybrid” “technology” will often tell their customers that the reason the HHO machine is not saving any fuel is not because HHO is bullshit but because the engine is “too modern” and the ECU is compensating against the HHO unit.

They say that an EFIE is needed in addition to the HHO to allow the HHO work.

Of course this is bullshit and all part of the scam, it is the EFIE which is saving you fuel (at the expense of performance, the environment and your engine’s life) and nothing to do with the HHO unit at all.

In fact the HHO unit, with or without an EFIE, does nothing to improve your vehicle’s fuel economy. In fact because the HHO unit consumes energy while having no positive impact it will actually result in a reduction in fuel economy, an increase in consumption!

I just received this email scam, it is quite clever but fortunately my friends don’t make so many errors…

E-mail’s origin is 41.219.234.164 which is in Lagos in Nigeria.

It’s Urgent Please Respond

I really don’t mean to inconvenience you right now but am sorry, I made a quick trip to Madrid Spain and I lost Bag that contain my Id, cellphone and credit cards. I know this may sound odd, but it all happened very fast. I’ve been to the England Embassy, they’re willing to help me fly without my passport but I have to pay for my ticket and hotel right now I’m out of cash and you know I can’t have access to my bank without my credit card over here. I have contacted my bank but they need more verification and time wasting as well for the past 24hours. Please, Can you lend me fund right now? I’ll pay you as soon as I get home. I need to get on the next available flight home. pleas let me know so that i can give you the details where to send the money to…………….

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 bullshit.

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

Hydrotechnix is Richard Bird of 40 Trelleck Road, Reading, Berkshire RG1 6EN - Phone 01189333373. He also is something to do with http://www.partzone.co.uk/

[Article stolen directly from Bob Park's Whats New and rewritten a fair bit too]

Dec 2009 - From San Francisco to Maine there is a campaign to require cancer warning labels on cell phones… Newsflash: Fact, cell/mobile phone radiation doesn’t cause cancer!

Cancer causing agents break chemical bonds, they damage DNA creating mutant strands of DNA which lead to cancer.

Microwave photons emitted by cell/mobile telephones do not have anything like enough energy to break chemical bonds, they would each need to be millions of times more energetic to come close. This fact is not open to debate, it is a fact.

In 1989, Paul Brodeur, a staff writer for the New Yorker newspaper and not a scientist, claimed in a series of sensational articles that electromagnetic-fields from power lines cause childhood leukemia. Electromagnetic-fields from power lines are many magnitudes less energetic than cell/mobile phone energy, really very puny and a very-very long way from being energetic enough to break chemical bonds, damage DNA and cause cancer.

Brodeur, however, is no scientist, he understood none of this. When virtually every scientist in the world agreed that it was impossible and he was wrong Brodeur took their unanimity as proof of a massive cover-up.

Other anti-science know-nothings followed Brodeur’s lead, shifting their attack from electromagnetic-fields from power lines to cell/mobile phone radiation.

Cell/mobile phones have since spread to almost the entire population and yet there is no corresponding increase in brain cancer, none whatsoever.

Case closed.

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1. CELL PHONES: KEEP YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE MICROWAVE OVEN.
Several readers admonished me for my unqualified assertion in last week’s
WN that “cell phone radiation does not cause cancer.” They point out that
microwave photons may not eject photoelectrons but they do excite molecular
vibrations (heat). That’s why your microwave oven has a safety interlock on
the door. So does the miniscule energy deposited by the cell phone cook
your brain? No! Rapid blood circulation keeps the brain temperature at
that of the blood, which is regulated by the hypothalamus at the base of
the brain. Thermoregulation is a high priority for the brain. That’s why
marathoners run hard for more than two hours, often hatless beneath a
midday summer sun, yet their rise in blood temperature is about that of a
mild fever.

2. WARNINGS: MAINE LEGISLATURE AGREES TO TAKE UP CELL-PHONE WARNING LABELS.
State Rep. Andrea Boland (D) is pushing for the state to become the first
to require cell phone makers to put warnings on packaging like those on
cigarettes. The bill was filed in October but is on a fast track. It’s
considered “emergency legislation” because there are 900,000 cell phones in
the state. Rep. Bolden’s concern was based on a 2006 study in Sweden
showing a correlation between brain tumors and heavy cell phone use.
However, a Danish study that came out in December found that the rates of
brain cancer in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden had remained stable
from 1974 two 2003. Such studies are possible in Scandinavia where record-
keeping is an obsession. If the effect is real, the frequency of brain
cancers should have turned up sharply in 2000. An estimated 277 million
people use cell phones in the US. I doubt if such a label would reduce that
number significantly. Scientific truth becomes something to be negotiated.

3. THERE’S HOPE: IF YOU’RE A DEMENTED MOUSE WITH A CELL PHONE.
A study by the Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center found that cell
phone radiation protected the memories of mice genetically altered to get
Alzheimer’s disease. The study was led by Prof. Gary Arendash who
previously found that coffee could protect against Alzheimer’s. Hmm, I
can’t remember if I’ve had my Coffee. If exposure to microwaves is started
when the Alzheimer’s mice are young adults, before signs of memory
impairment are apparent, their cognitive ability is protected. The mice had
been genetically altered to develop beta-amyloid plaques characteristic of
Alzheimer’s as they aged.

OzHydrocars sell Hydrocharger in Australia, I’m not sure how much the HHO scam has penetrated Australia but it is the same old bullshit scam as the one in America and the one in the UK.

http://www.ozhydrocars.com/

MPB Group
Malcolm Baird
56 Mackie Road
Perth
WA,6111
AU

Tel. +0.0894962648

Follow the instructions in this book and run a very serous risk of being poisoned, blinded, burned and even killed!

I loved Joshua Tickell’s book “From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank”, indeed back in about 2000 it it not an exaggeration to say that it did nothing short of change my life.

However as time has passed research has been done and methods perfected which make Joshua’s book extraordinarily dated. Even though Joshua has had several opportunities the rework the book it still contains, among other things, plans for a DIY biodiesel processor which expose the user a very serous risk of being poisoned, blinded, burned and even killed!

It is time From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank was either rewritten or removed from sale, it is dangerous!

Back in 2007 I and my friend Gavin set out to write an up to date book on running diesel engines on biofuels, biodiesel and vegetable oil.

The giant publishing house McGraw -Hill liked our pitch and bought our book. Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels was published in October 2008.

I am very proud of our book, it was an enormous undertaking and we both worked very hard to make it the best, most complete, most accurate, friendly and readable book on DIY biofuels, biodiesel and SWO on the market.

Buy this book, it is much better, much more accurate and much more up to date.

Nevertheless one year on our book is not selling half as well as Joshua’s one. Despite it being ten-years-old and ten-years-out-of-date, people still seem to prefer to buy Joshua’s book…. with something like ten-times as many people buying his book on Amazon.com… over ours.

If you are one of the folks who has bought a copy of my book then thank you! We would appreciate you taking the time to review it for us… preferably favourably, but not necessarily… even just a few lines is going to be very helpful.

Either send the review directly to us, or go on line and review it at www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com (depending on whether you are a US or UK coustomer, they don’t seem able to integrate these things) or at one of the thousands of other places you could review a book on diesel engines and biofuels.

Some toast yesterday

[For immediate release - 29th November 2009]

A new Better Butter has been developed by Jon Starbuck, a British inventor, published author and entrepreneur.

Jon claims that this new Better Butter, when applied to toast, improves the toast’s “fill factor” by up to 10% (when compared to ordinary butter on toast) and yet contains no perceivable extra calories.

“This helps bridge the hunger gap”, said Mr. Starbuck, “between late-morning and lunch while eating 10% less breakfast”.

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 »

The ADE651, it can spot bombs or narcotics or people or heartbeats or… whatever else you are looking for… even things you are not looking for… through brick walls… from aeroplanes… up to a kilometre away…  honest!

The device contains no power source whatsoever, it is just a technical looking divining rod. Apparently, to work properly, it relies entirely on the operator being calm and well rested and well trained, then the hand held telescopic antenna will swivel round and point at whatever you are looking for, and even some things you are not.

Does this sound like nonsense to you? Of course it is nonsense!

Unfortunately, like so many scams, the device has an army of “true believes”; people who, for one reason or another, are so invested in the product that logic and reason don’t apply, their belief is based entirely on faith and/or anecdotal evidence.  These people are not necessarily the uneducated or the desperate, in fact they can even be the same people who have control of millions of dollars of a countries’ military spending…

… and…the Iraqi military has just spent at least $24 million on fifteen-hundred of these!

From here this sounds quite funny, but if I were relying on these devices to keep me from terrorist attack I’d probably not be laughing.

What ATSC's web site looked like before they took it off line (image from: whois.domaintools.com)

The product: http://www.ade651.com/ade651in.html

This web-site claims that the “exclusive distributor” is Kaplaz Security Professionals LTD of Prosec Building, Serrail Street, Baabda, Lebanon
www.prosec.com

However the New York Times says the following company sold them to Iraq:

The suppler: ATSC-Ltd (site permanently unavailable).
Registered to: ATSC LTD, Jim McCormick.
Phone: +44-2071930282 (they never answer their phone)
Address: Dairy House Yard, Cary Road, Sparkford, Yeovil, BA22 7LH

This address looks like a private house opposite a farm, but Google Maps is a bit confused as it also says the Haynes International Motor Museum. Whatever is there it is not ATSC, it is either an old address or completely bogus.

More info on the device:

From the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html

And Gizmo.com
http://gizmodo.com/5396888/the-bomb+sniffing-gadget-thats-definitely-not-saving-iraq

http://sniffexquestions.blogspot.com/

http://atscllc.en.ecplaza.net/

http://www.skeptics.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=47058