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The Suppression of Fuel Savers and Alternate Energy Resources 491
expandable gases. Instead of burning a fuel, this engine used electricity to
expand the gas in hermetically sealed cylinders. Far from being complex,
the first prototype used a ninety horsepower Volvo automobile engine
with upper end modifications. Attaching the Volvo pistons to pistons fitting
the sealed cylinders, the engine worked perfectly and showed an output
of three hundred horsepower. In a December 1968 Private Pilot article,
the inventor, Joseph Papp, claimed that it would cost about twenty
five dollars to charge each cylinder every sixty thousand miles. Subscribers
couldn't help but wonder why Private Pilot soon changed
hands, moved across the country, and failed to follow up on this project as
promised.
Two Chamber Combustion
Because very lean mixtures of fuel do not ignite easily, there were numerous
attempts at solving the problem with a separate and smaller compression
chamber. By feeding gas separately to such a chamber, it could easily
detonate the very lean mixtures in the larger chamber.
A patent in the early 20s covered this idea and Ford perfected the idea
shortly after the war. It actually wasn't until the mid-70s that Honda of
Japan used the design to make a joke of the various emission control
efforts of the U.S. auto industry. (See numerous Popular Science articles,
like 768.4.)
Salter's Ducks
While confined to his bed a couple of days, an Edinburgh professor doodled
up a method of using ocean wave action to produce an amazing
amount of electric energy. Large pods shaped something like a duck simply
bobbed up and down in a pumping action that used 90 percent of the
waves' energy. Scale models actually functioned perfectly and indicated
that larger units should produce hundreds of kilowatts. {Popular Science,
March, 1977.)
Water-Gas Mix (University of Arizona)
Marvin D. Martin told the press in 1976 that their University funded "fuel
reformer" catalytic reactor could probably double auto mileage.
Designed to cut exhaust emissions, the units mixed water with hydrocarbon
fuels to produce an efficient Hydrogen, Methane, Carbon
Monoxide fuel. Letters to their Aero Building #16 Lab brought replies that
indicated little of how the units functioned but gave indications that the
hydrogen was responsible for the great efficiency.
From P.O. Box 3146, Inglewood, CA 90304 (1977).