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Too good to be true
You instinctively know what something is too good to be true, don’t you? And things which seem that way almost always turn out to be just that, too good too be true. I am constantly coming across products for sale on the internet which are such obvious bullshit, and yet someone must be buying them.
MagnoFuel
Recently, while researching for my book on bio-fuels, I am coming across loads of magnetic miricles. These things simply attach around your engine’s fuel lines, attached with zip-ties, and enhance the fuel magnetically; reducing pollution, increasing performance, reducing consumption, increasing range.
Sound too good to be true? Well obviously! If these things worked they would be fitted as standard to all new cars, in fact it would probably be compulsory.
The “science” behind them
The makers offer very pseudo-scientific language to explain what they do and how they work and then fail to back any of it up with any proof, beyond the dubious and anecdotal, that they have any effect whatsoever.
For example, ecozone.co.uk say here that:
“Magno-Fuel has been tested to give fuel savings of up to 15%, provides better combustion and more power from your engine while reducing pollution.”
Tested by who? When? Where? Or am I meant to just take your word for it?
“Only after a short time will oxygen molecules be embedded between the fuel molecules, ensuring a better combustion.”
What does thins even mean?
And they go on to say:
“Bloch and Purcell were awarded the Nobel prize for their work on magnetic fields on solid, liquid and gas substances.”
Sure they were, Physics prize in 1952 “for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith”, what does thins have to do what the MagnoFuel? Nothing whatsoever, that is what!
Other magnetic bullshit
One can also buy magnetic toilet descalers, magnetic washing machine descalers, an amazing array of magnetic jewelery and loads of other miracle magnetic gizmos avalabel to the gullible, from water treatment and fuel treatment to health (for you or your dog or cat or horse); there is tones of it and all of it complete bullshit!
And even more nonsense
EcoFlow and MagnoFlow and BioFlow, BioGuard pendants to protect you from your computer, BioPhone to protect you from your cell phone, Vitaflow for your water, Motoflow for your fuel, Thermoflow for your boiler/furnace and (my favorite) Vinaflow to protect you from your wine!
How can this be legal?
Well how can this be legal? I have no idea, I guess it isn’t. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof, this is blatant modern day snake oil, a scam, a con……. it is complete bullshit!!
Apparently they also kill all sorts of nasty dangerous organisms which I did not know where in my clothes; frankly after reading the list of nasties in my wash-basket it is amazing that I am alive at all, for not using either detergent or Eco Balls, just forty-degree water.
top of a hill), up Lombard Street and Haight Street (which I hate). Got visited By Chris and Tara on their way back from New Zealand, which was such fun too.
, so amazing (awesome, even), they did something like two hours, maybe more, of non-stop high-energy tunes, loved every moment of it, spent half the gig right at the front, it was like being eighteen again, came out at nearly midnight dripping wet from (other people’s) sweat and came home to some weird fog over downtown.

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Ecotopia, not the fine people who
At face value the Facebook Forest seems a worthy enough cause, does it not, or at worst a fairly benign, albeit cynical, marketing exercise? However, they came in for a lot of hard questioning and criticism on the Facebook site (at least in part from me, but from many others too) which they chose to edit and delete rather than publicly respond to. Sure some of people were out-and-out nasty but others, such as myself, were not; we asked fair questions and Ecotopia deleted them. Funnily enough this annoyed people and they posted their outrage on the Facebook Forest site, resulting in further deletion until eventually Ecotopia withdrew the facility to post messages to their page entirely.





