> SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE ? Any Comments ?
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> http://www.carburetters.co.uk/Fuelcat.php#Information
Sure sounds like hooey to me! Just a few points :
A car engine is mostly a thermal engine, if the combustion temperature is
lowered so much that valve recession is not possible, then the engine is not
going to make as much power.
Even a catalyzed reaction has to either go from a higher energy state to a
lower one, or have energy added. Since there is apparently no energy being
added, this must be removing energy from the fuel ... unless of course it
does nothing which is what I suspect.
American gasoline companies searched desperately for non-polluting lead
substitutes; if this was effective there would already be one of these
catalysts in every gas pump in America by now. Note that they claim this
catalyst was discovered and used in 1942.
American car manufacturers (contrary to popular opinion) searched
desperately for ways to improve gas mileage without sacrificing performance
(anyone remember the Cadillac V4-6-8 fiasco ?), again if this worked it
would already be in every car.
I can't claim to have been in Russia in 1942 ... but I'd bet money that no
magic catalyst was used to convert low-grade, low octane fuel to 100 octane
aviation fuel. The amount of TEL added even to avgas is tiny, it would have
been far simpler to ship TEL to Russia than to experiment with some other
additive on expensive (and desperately needed) aircraft engines.
Randall
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