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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 01:06 PM Original message |
'Fuel-saver' devices will not save you fuel |
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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. Anyone else remember the Pogue carbureter-- 200 MPG if only the evil... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
2. Mythbusters had a lot of fun with those |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Did you see the one about putting "golfball dimples"... |
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AtheistCrusader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 02:20 AM Response to Reply #2 |
19. If it was laboratory savings of fuel did they |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. Kicked and recommended. Debunking conspiracy theories is always a good thing. |
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lemonnn (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. Got a magnet on my fuel injection port. |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I have a magnet sewn into my pants. |
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lemonnn (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 04:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. The magnet inside my engine is 50 pounds of solid lead...works like a charm... NT |
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AtheistCrusader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 02:21 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. 50 pounds per fuel injection port? |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 07:57 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Alas, the poster now has a tombstone |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 09:26 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. 60% of the time it works every time. nt |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
6. Such a wide brush. |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 11:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Hydrogen injection. The laws of physics intervene: |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 06:25 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Mmmmm guess again. Your first attempt was completely wrong and shows that you didn't |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 11:17 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Ah - dueling condescension! |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 11:26 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Even a moran can make his own absurdly inexpensive hydrogen generator as did some |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 12:01 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. As said in the first place, its a net negative on energy |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 12:04 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. As said at Blutip, and as observed by myself, manufacturers are spending trillions of dollars |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 12:35 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. They probably should stick with the mod-chip |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 05:12 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Let's try something different, I'll put up some text and you read it, I mean read three |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 08:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
30. Just with a chip you generally get four parameters to play with: |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 07:54 PM Response to Reply #16 |
29. Something is missing in the translation here..... so I'll spell it out for you. |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 10:31 AM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Actually cracking it loose from hydrocarbons isn't that expensive... |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:19 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. All of the "run your car on water" schemes have given it a bad rap. |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 06:52 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Guess what mate. Hydrogen IS NOT PRODUCED BY ELECTROLYSIS. |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-07-11 12:15 AM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Really, mate? |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-07-11 03:10 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. No different to the urea injection systems used on some Mercs. |
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One_Life_To_Give (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 02:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
27. $2Million per year for Emma Maersk and her sisters? |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 07:26 AM Response to Original message |
11. I know for a fact that there's one thing that works to save fuel |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 08:39 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Thats what I do a lot of |
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Nihil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 06:28 AM Response to Reply #11 |
22. No, no, no! That's *not* the way to do it! |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
26. Here's what I get out of what I've read on this topic |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
31. The pickup powered by a wood burning stove actually worked. |
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