There are nearly 100 million car and
trucks operating in North America, and no matter what is invented for
the future, those vehicles will continue operating for several years.
This means our denizens of the highways will continue polluting and
guzzling fuel at then same pace which has caused our present day fuel
shortage and outrageously inflated costs.
An invention that improves fuel economy and at the same time helps curb
noxious exhaust emissions is needed.
Exchange reports on two such devices -- and they would work well
together. One is the electronic device invented by Ben Polo ( featured
in Exchange issue # 5/6 ) and the other is the Power Pak, a device
invented by Charlie brown and Robert Whipkey of New York.
Brown, a retired Air Force pilot, adn his partner have recently
completed three years of detailed and complex research into fuel
consumption and polluting emissions.
The Power Pak evolved from an earlier device called the "Ring of
Power", and it is literally an air conditioner for combusion chambers.
The inexpensive, easy-to-install devices works on any car or truck to
improve performance, increase mileage and control emissions.
Vaporizers and the like have been tried, but they don't do the job. Our
equipment humidifies the air so that combustion takes place under
optimum conditions", Brown explained.
"You cannot see humidity like you can vapor, and that's probably the
reason it works so much better."
Brown heads the firm of Charlie Brown Enterprises and also a group
called Mobile Energy Research Center in Miami.
Everyone knows that a car seems to run better in the rain or when the
air is moist. brown explains it this way:
"Precisely what happens within the engine with humid versus dry air has
not been scientifically proven; there are two theories, but nothing
positive. We do know, however, that air between 90 and 95% humidity
gets the best performance.
The fuel/air ratio is optimum, the rate of burn is slower and more
effective and we see a reduction of carbon deposits in the engine, a
reduction of carbon monoxide and a drastic reduction of oxides of
nitrogen (NOx( that pollutes so badly.
"Additionally, our system results in less engine vibration, longer
spark plug life, longer engine life, a quiter engine and increase
effective road horsepower and signficantly improved gasoline mileage."
That statement sounds like an auto-makers dream commercial. Can it be
true?
"We have spent thousands of hours and many thousands of dollars in very
thorough and precise testing", Brown stressed.
"Despite the promise shown by our testing, we have been totally ignored
by the various branches of our government that are supposed to be
concerned about the problems of fuel economy and pollution", Brown said
with obvious smouldering frustration.
"We have offered to supply our units, at no cost whatsoever to anyone
except ourselves, to more than a dozen supposedly concerned
institutions", Brown added.
Letters offering the device for testing without cost have been sent to
the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of
Transportation; the State of Floida; General Motors Corporation; Ford
Motor Company; Chrysler Corporation [ ... &c... ]
It would seem that if our pollution and fuel problems are so pressing
as the powers that be claim they are, then any one or all of the above
organizations would have excitedly tested a rpomising device.
Evidently that's not how it works in our system.
"I don't think all those bureaucrats buzzing around up in Washington
have any sort of system", Brown complained. "Both the EPA and the
Transportation department flatly refused to test our device or discuss
our concept.
"The state of Florida advises us that they cannot test the concept on
one of their vehicles because the manufacturer would void the warrantty
-- can you imagine that?", Brown said with a shake of his head.
"We're protected by patents so the auto manufacturers can surely look
into it without threat of a nuisance suit", Brown added. "But they
ignore us. It's a mystery to me".
One of the reasons the auto manufacturers may be choosing to ignore
Brown and his device -- hoping he'll go away -- is the political pork
barrel foisted on the public a few seasons ago known as the "catalytic
converter".
American consumers are paying the additional cost of these emissisons
control units that lower auto efficiency and shave time off engine life.
"If I've ever seen a boondoggle, those catalytic converters are it",
Brown noted.
"The thing is expensive -- but profitable for the automakers -- it has
no effect on oxides of nitrogen and I've seen tests which indicate the
catalytic converters actually add another pollutant to the air --
sufluric acid .
"They only reduce carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons, and then only on
cars using unleaded gas. For this we have to pay a price? Beats me!"
commented the exasperated pilot and engineer.
The EPA ordered the catalytic converters and the auto moguls feigned
frustration at being told to install them, when all along it added to
profitablility and a great deal of free advertizing via media stories.
One might ask, why not take the thing down to your local auto dealer
and get him to test it?
"The manufacturers have a policy that forbids dealers from testing new
devices or concepts", Brown pointed out.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are subject to televised propaganda
about EPA mileage estimates designed to sell cars and major oil
companies advertise how hard they are striving to provide the "energy
needed to keep America rolling".
Brown admits that his earlier device, the "Ring of Power" caused rust
problems and was expensive because it was made of ceramic tile. But the
Power Pak solves both problems and fits easily on all vehicles.
"One of our problems certainly must be the rash of gas-saving gimmicks
that popped up across the country over the last few years. These
useless gimmicks have given all such devices a bad name".
Carburetion devices have come and gone throughout the history of
automotive engines, and teh auto makers steadfastly deny that anything
more efficient than what they manufacture has ever come forth.
Some of the "better ideas" did turn out to have major drawbacks. The
famed Fish carburetor invented by John Fish was indeed more efficient
for racing cars and hotrods, but for around-town driving it left much
to be desired.
The equally noted Pogue carburetor invented by Canadian Nelson Pogue
could indeed obtain fantastic mileage -- but it did not give the car
the necessary performance standards American drivers demand.
However, Brown's Power Pak is in a class by itself. it is not a mere
gimmick; it works and has impressive test credentials -- and it can be
inexpensively installed on present vehicles.
Rather than attempting to force new carburetion sytems down industry's
throat -- as several inventors have tried to do and failed -- Charlie
Brown has found a way to make today's fuel systems, in both gasoline
and diesel engines work cleaner and more efficiently.
California has at least acknowledged Polo's Equalizer; Brown has been
totally ignored. his Power Pak deserves a fair hearing and trial.
Brown repeated his statement, still incredulous that the powers that be
do not act:
"Here is something that can be inexpensively installed on existing
cars; giving them longer life and better performance for the investment.
"In addition we help clean up the air and save fuel".
The automakers certainly cannot say that!
A search of www.espacenet.com ( the European Patent Office online
) yielded no results for Charlie Brown, &c... except for this
related fuel humidifaction system:
GB2459840
Humidity amplification system for
internal combustion engines
2009-11-11
Inventor(s): BROWN ALLAN [GB]
Classification: - international: F02M25/07;
F02D21/08; F02M25/028; F02M25/07; F02D21/00; F02M25/00
Abstract -- A humidity
amplification system for an internal combustion engine 1 comprises a
conduit 10, eg of heat resistant silicone plastics material, for
conveying a portion of exhaust gas to a point 19 in an air intake 6
upstream of a throttle plate 24 forming part of the air intake. The
conduit 10 may take exhaust gases from a collector 4 located between a
catalytic converter 3 and a silencer 5 to a vaporising chamber 7 which
is heated eg by thermal connection 8 to the exhaust manifold 2. In a
diesel engine, a vacuum pump may be used to draw recycled exhaust gas
through the conduit 10. The amount of exhaust gas to be recycled may be
determined using a humidity sensor 29. In a modification, the exhaust
collector 4 is located upstream of the catalytic converter 3 and an
auxiliary catalytic converter (14, fig.3) is provided in the tube 10.
An EGR tube (33, fig.4) may be provided between the exhaust and inlet
manifolds so that the engine management system 22 can select humidity
amplification, eg at high engine speeds, or EGR, eg at low engine
speeds.
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