50% Efficiency Boost From New Fuel Injection System

chudnall notes a Technology Review story on a new gas engine injection system that promises increased efficiency of up to 50%. "The key is heating and pressurizing gasoline before injecting it into the combustion chamber, says Mike Rocke, Transonic's vice president of business development. This puts it into a supercritical state that allows for very fast and clean combustion, which in turn decreases the amount of fuel needed to propel a vehicle. The company also treats the gasoline with a catalyst that 'activates' it, partially oxidizing it to enhance combustion."

magnets?

[Gothmolly]

Also, if you put rare earth magnets on your fuel lines, it streamlines the molecules as they go into the engine.

Re:If you post before this

[Vanderhoth]

That's almost a full US Gallon. You could drive 100km on a jug of milk.... Well if you could run a car on milk. That would give new meaning to milking it for all it's worth.

I am a secret Beta Tester.....

[oldmeddler]

...for Transonic. I also installed an HHO system and a 100 mpg carburetor that I built from some 1932 plans along with a tornado action swirl generator in the intake. My mileage and horsepower have improved so much that the car will run 87 mph in 1st gear at idle and gets over 257 mpg. It runs on Burger King bio-diesel.

Fascinating...

[nanoakron]

Does the exhaust also smell like bullshit?

Re:If you post before this

[Jurily]

Oh, but I'm sure when the technology never quite makes it to market, die hard conspiracy nuts will claim some Oil company bought the technology only to destroy it so they can sell more oil.

A lesser known fact is that most conspiracy nuts work for oil companies to discredit those who discover the real conspiracies. /ducks

Re:Same old snake oil

[dziban303]

Stop being so cynical! It's clear to me and other freethinkers that this invention, coupled with Roger's Patent Home Fusion Contraptor, the Bloom device, and the Smithe Perpetual Motion Machine will lead us to energy independence! Free renewable power for one and all!

Re:If you post before this

[value_added]

You could drive 100km on a jug of milk

I once went over 200km with a gallon of milk.

I think it was bad by the time I got home cuz the wife was real mad.

Re:Same old snake oil

[YeeHaW_Jelte]

No no they don't propose using a different oil ... just preprocessing the gasoline ... I mean, who can imagine a car running one snake oil? How many snakes to the mile would that take?

Re:Same old snake oil

[elrous0]

Bah, the technology is fine. They put it in our cop cars and they work fine. Good thing too, since I'm just a few days from retirement and I've got this new partner. Nope, no explosions here.

Re:Same old snake oil

[rubycodez]

the right snake can go many many miles, my car's snake injection system only unspooled and used half an anaconda yesterday.

Re:Those "up to" words again.

[Anne_Nonymous]

I must be an ultra-green driver; I never use my brakes and I ignore red lights entirely.

Re:Partially oxidizing?

[CyberSaint]

There was another new idea that came out a couple of years ago involving applying an electric current to gasoline just prior to injection, reducing surface tension and greatly increasing atomization.

That was for diesel. Gasoline has no polar molecules so unleaded gas has nothing that interacts with the electric field. Diesel on the other hand has plenty of polar molecules that interact with the electric field, agitating the mixture and lowering the surface tension pre-injection.