Can a Car Run on Water? How About Mountain Dew?
Now for the strange case of Paul Patone and his strange taste in fuel.
Patone is the inventor of the Global Environmental Energy Technology Fuel Processor. It’s an engine modification system that allows a typical internal combustion engine to run on up to 80% water.
In a YouTube video, Patone demonstrates his invention using Mountain Dew, although why you’d use $2/liter soda instead of plain old water is a question worth asking. Either way, Patone says that with a mixture of just 20% to 25% hydrocarbon fuel, a car could run mostly on water using a “self-inducing plasma generator” (whatever that means).
Patone spent 25 years developing the technology until he was “framed for securities fraud and railroaded to a mental ward at the Utah State Hospital in March of 2006,” according to the GEET website. Apparently, corrupt Utah businessmen were responsible when Patone refused to sell his patents or technology.
Since released and living in New Mexico, Patone has been refining his invention. He also says this technology can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution produced by a car by 90%.
At this point, your question must be the same as mine: Why aren’t all our cars using this tech?
Patone’s claims have never been confirmed or even evaluated by the EPA, and not one peer-reviewed study of the technology has been published in a single peer-reviewed scientific journal.
In other words, Patone’s invention has never come under scrutiny from the scientific community, and the actual viability of GEET technology remains unconfirmed.
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"In other words, Patone’s invention has never come under scrutiny from the scientific community, and the actual viability of GEET technology remains unconfirmed."
Then why are you reprinting it here?
I think the answer to the original question is: Yes, it can run on Mountain Dew for a while, but then it gets really tired afterward.
Its "steam reforming" which is a cracking process used in the petroleum industry. With an engine, it absorbs much of the wasted heat energy that goes out with the exhaust. The energy is returned to the engine in the form of short molecule gases that have higher potential energy than the original longer chain hydrocarbon. The cracking process cracks the water content also. Google search "steam reforming" . Its the #1 method of hydrogen production in the world. Decades ago auto makers tested, proved and patented these type of fuel reformers for use in cars but they won't sell a car with them, not even after NASA JPL engineers proved it works well in the 1970's and not even after MIT proved it works well all over again using a plasma fuel reformer during the past 10 years. This man, Paul Pantone's fuel reformer is the best I've seen because the plasma doesn't require an external power supply. It builds electrostatic potential similar thunderclouds.
I went back to check him four days later, figuring that although there was no new move we could make, we should at least document the return of the itchiness. This time we found the mother and infant resting in a day nest. It was a bright sunny day, and Icyizere seemed to be enjoying the warmth.