Fuel saver or complete waste of £9.99?

[reserves]

You know what they say about things that sound too good to be true....

Anyone ever tried anything similar?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/audi-a2-a3-a4-a6- ... dZViewItem

[saf]

That looks like utter ball locks

if it were true, it would be a lot more than £9.99

Some of the things on thre made me laugh.

Dont waste your money mate.

Put it in your petrol tank instead. At least will put a smil eon your face when your right foot goes down.

[Dr-Al]

For a magnetic field to have any effect on combustion, it would need to be present at the point of combustion. Any effect that the magnet has on the liquid fuel will be temporary and will fade within milliseconds of the fuel passing through the field.

In any case, petrol is predominantly hexanes and other 5 to 10-carbon hydrocarbons. These molecules do not have a dipole moment, so you could pass them through the biggest, most powerful magnet in the world and their chemical properties will remain unaltered.

As for the claim that it will "break and then realign the hydrocarbon chains". If this were true, then petrol would be much cheaper to produce because the process of refining crude oil into useable fuel would no longer rely on high temperature zeolite cracking.

Summary: Washing and waxing the car is likely to have more effect on acceleration and mpg than this will.

[S4TAN]

Excellent explanation Dr-Al - a thorough assassination of this sh!tty con-job magnet!

[reserves]

Thanks.

Dr-Al- not sure how you know all that but cheers!

I'll put the £10 in the tank.

[MCB]

Nice one Dr Al!

[CliveH]

Dr-Al- not sure how you know all that but cheers!

He's a scientist...

[bobjebb]

Excellent dissection, Doctor...

Someone please send him that argument and blow his hair-brained scheme out of the water!

[DavidT]

For a magnetic field to have any effect on combustion, it would need to be present at the point of combustion. Any effect that the magnet has on the liquid fuel will be temporary and will fade within milliseconds of the fuel passing through the field.

In any case, petrol is predominantly hexanes and other 5 to 10-carbon hydrocarbons. These molecules do not have a dipole moment, so you could pass them through the biggest, most powerful magnet in the world and their chemical properties will remain unaltered.

As for the claim that it will "break and then realign the hydrocarbon chains". If this were true, then petrol would be much cheaper to produce because the process of refining crude oil into useable fuel would no longer rely on high temperature zeolite cracking.

Summary: Washing and waxing the car is likely to have more effect on acceleration and mpg than this will.

Great post, didn't understand most of it, but the humour was not lost on me

[CliveH]

For a magnetic field to have any effect on combustion, it would need to be present at the point of combustion. Any effect that the magnet has on the liquid fuel will be temporary and will fade within milliseconds of the fuel passing through the field.

In any case, petrol is predominantly hexanes and other 5 to 10-carbon hydrocarbons. These molecules do not have a dipole moment, so you could pass them through the biggest, most powerful magnet in the world and their chemical properties will remain unaltered.

As for the claim that it will "break and then realign the hydrocarbon chains". If this were true, then petrol would be much cheaper to produce because the process of refining crude oil into useable fuel would no longer rely on high temperature zeolite cracking.

Summary: Washing and waxing the car is likely to have more effect on acceleration and mpg than this will.

Great post, didn't understand most of it, but the humour was not lost on me

I understood every word (well maybe not "zeolite"!)...it's just when you put all the words together that I get a bit lost...

[simple1]

All makes sense to me.......... you cant treat petrol with magnets, as its structure is not that which can be affected by magnetic influence, or that any affect is short lived.......... but then I am an engineer too.........

[fletchie55]

I cant believe anyone would ever buy that! hahahaha
I wonder if I can make a fotune selling bottles of fresh coastal air....any takers?!!!

[simple1]

Would that be windy air or still?????

[philipwalker]

Wasn`t there a bloke floggin` wind from huricane Katrina last year?

[Paulm]

I watch myth busters when offshore they did a test last weeks or so trying out all these type of things and every one they tested either had no effect or made mpg worse.

They even tried Toluene mixed with fuel cant remember what it was supposed to do but anyway it made mpg way worse