Fuel efficent car! 1 liter = 160 Km

[lm723]

Fossil Fuel, Auto-LPG, Hybrid, etc!

Meet your match!

The Shell Oil 1973 Test Car


376 miles per Gallon
0,625 liter/100 Km 1 liter/160 Km


http://www.opel-p1.nl/custom/testcar/Shell%20Opel.htm

Another little known fact I recently learned. You'll probably be as astounded as I was upon being made aware of this process.

The inventor was Jan Lopuszanski, one of Poland's most distinguished scientists. Born October 21st, 1923 in Lwow Poland, he recently died April 30th, 2008. Educated at the U of Wroclaw, he received his M.A. there in 1955 and his Ph.D at from the Jagiellonian U in Cracow. In 1968, he was made a full professor at Wroclaw. From 1970 to 1984 he was director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics (Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej Uniwersytet Wroclawski). In 1976, he was elected corresponding member and in 1986 permanent member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1996, he was made corresponding member of the Poland Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow. From 1960 until 1994 when he retired, he held the chair for mathematical methods in physics at Wroclaw. He had visiting professorships in Utrecht, the U of Gottingen, and the Max Planck Institute in Munich. In the US, he was a visiting professor at NYU, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and at SUNY (State University of New York) Stony Brook. He was a member of the editorial board of Reports on Mathematical Physics and Fortschritte der Physik. He wrote about 80 original professional papers, 40 review articles, and 5 major textbooks.

Clearly an intellectual giant and a force to be reckoned with in the fields of physics and mathematics.

The Lopuszanski Process
After his formal retirement, Lopuszanski was finally able to work on his pet project - running an ordinary automobile on water instead of gasoline. He developed a unique fuel injection system with such a high, previously unobtainable injection pressure that the H2 in the H2O was literally squeezed out from the O2. To aid in the process, he developed a chemical catalyst which, when added to the H2O would help to relax the molecular bonds so that the H2 could more easily be squeezed out under the astronomically high injection pressure. He jokingly called this his molecular laxative (Lopuszanski was well-known for his highly developed sense of humor). The remaining water was used to cool the combustion chamber-sort of an automatic water injection system!

With this new process, one simply filled up the fuel tank with ordinary H2O and then added one molecular laxative pill per tankful. With the engine properly configured to burn H2 rather than C8H15, we have an ordinary car that literally runs on water.

You can imagine Lopuszanski's satisfaction and happiness with his discovery and the only thing needed now was financing to move the process from the laboratory stage to the realm of industrial manufacture. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to the inventor, an ExxonMobilist plant was working as part of the research team (ExxonMobil has these plants all over the world, it's been reported). She promptly passed the information on to her masters resulting in the giant, evil, unconscionable corporation offering to develop this almost miraculous process and making it available to the public if Lopuszanski would sign over all rights for a substantial payment.

Being a cloistered scientist and humanitarian, Lopuszanski was totally unaware that ExxonMobil was perhaps the most evil, degenerate corporation on Earth, and taking them at their word, he happily signed over all rights to his process believing what a great boon this would be to all mankind. Of course, you know the rest of the story. ExxonMobil had no intention of going public and promptly suppressed all the details of this process that would naturally have destroyed this giant evil-doer. Subsequent to the purchase, a number of members of Lopuszanski's research team disappeared with out a trace although foul-play was never proven. Although of course Lopuszanski was too distinguished, prominent, and well-known to ever be in danger (if in fact there ever was any danger), close confidants of the man report that he always bitterly regretted placing his trust in the malevolent ExxonMobil corporation.

This is why the details of the process remain sketchy and not much more is known other than the bare-bones of the proceedure.

An unfortunate tale, but one that will be appreciated by all liberals.

Happy Motoring!

source: imazda.com -- thanks guys!

[ghosthunter]

Splitting H2O into H2 and O2 by "squeezing" the molecules of water?

Sounds as credible as Oldblue's Laws of Physics

[lm723]

In 1970's they could make fuel efficent cars! Sa technology ngayon nde?

Well something is wrong here!

[Memphis Raines]

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[donbuggy]

Come on, guys. Somebody's pulling your chains. It's true the car was able to get amazing fuel economy but it achieved that using ordinary means: light weight, lean vapor fuel, driven 30 mph (48 kph). Here's the real story behind the car.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008...d_down_old.php

Souped Down 1959 Opel T-1 Gets 376.59 mpg
by Michael Graham Richard



Could you believe that the car above made the 1975 Guiness World Record book? Its claim to fame is getting an amazing 376.59 miles per gallon of gasoline, and that in a 1973 contest sponsored by Shell Oil (now Royal Dutch Shell).

As you can see from the photo above and others further down this article, the car is pretty far from our modern "manta ray-shaped, wind tunnel-vetted carbon fiber space car", as the SeattlePI reporter puts it. How did it achieve such high fuel economy when even our modern hybrids are orders of magnitude less efficient? What can we learn from it? Read on.



The first thing the team that built the car did is make it as light as possible: They completely stripped the interior except for a seat. They also chopped the top to lower wind resistance.



The Opel's rear axle was narrowed and super-hard low-friction tires were used. To save even more weight, a chain drive was used. The engine was pretty much the stock 4-cylinder that came with the car, but the fuel line was insulated and heated so the gasoline entered the combustion chambers as lean vapor.

The record was achieve by driving the car at a steady 30 mph (48 kph).

Now of course this isn't exactly a practical car. But even if you changed it enough to reduce its performance by 250 mpg, that still leaves you with 126 mpg! With modern technology, we should be able to do much better than what we're doing now.

Common sense wins again: Make cars lighter, more aerodynamic, and use smaller engines.

[niky]

You can't squeeze water until it comes apart.

Otherwise, you could light a match in the Marianas trench and blow a hole straight through the ocean floor.

[Taurus]

These responses are so expected for people who can't

[vito corleone]

came up with a system that defies the laws of physics; then a gigantic monster came and took it, never to be seen again. . .a very convenient twist for story telling

ma'am, i did my homework, but the dog ate it!

[iho250]

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natawa ko bigla sa post na to...
seryoso pa naman ako pagbabasa ng mga naunang post :hysterical:

[niky]

These responses are so expected for people who can't

Who can't... turn off their brains? Suspend their disbelief? Believe in fairies?

The shell hypermileage car is real. And it uses real technologies. Ultra-lean burn, low friction tires, ultra-lightweight chain drive.

The Jan Lopuszanski engine is complete bull. He has never mentioned it in any of his writing... and his hobby is plants... not cars.