De-fueling

De-fueling

Sometimes, I find myself in an array of disillusionment. Anticipating things to happen the way I visualize them to happen, and then alas… it was another disappointment.

Recent news regarding fuel alternative is on the hot seat, specifically, ethanol. After the documentary film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, a clamor for nature loving and gas saving groups take on the stage. Back to the disillusionment, there is a research by Mark Jacobson from Stanford University that ethanol poses greater risk to people with respiratory diseases as opposed to gasoline.

According to Jacobson’s report, “under the base-case emission scenario derived, which accounted for projected improvements in gasoline and E85 vehicle emission controls, it was found that E85 may increase ozone-related mortality, hospitalization and asthma by about nine percent in Los Angeles and four percent in the U.S. as a whole relative to 100 percent gasoline.” If there is such risk, it is reasonable to search for other alternative.

What I don’t understand is that there seems to be viable alternative for fuel. Daniel Dingel, a Filipino inventor, claims that he runs his car with water for more than three decades now. “. An article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer said that Dingle built his engine as early as 1969. Dingel built a car reactor that uses electricity from a 12-volt car battery to split the ordinary tap water into hydrogen and oxygen components.” People would suspect conspiracy among oil producing countries. There is less publicity in this issue, and lack of acknowledgment of Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in the Philippines can affirm such suspicion.

An inner cynic in oneself would hold onto the reality that the world seems to be run by greedy government enterprises. As a result, ordinary citizens can be disenfranchised of having their nature-loving and global-warming-hating ideals. Acting on those ideals may just result in anticipating disillusionment.

“The free energy world is a magnet for scams and gouging because there is so much money to be made in the free energy field when it finally breaks forth with a marketable product that will eventually replace most of the trillion-dollar petroleum and nuclear industry. The scamsters are not a reflection of the science, but of greed."

-- Sterling D. Allan
Feb. 1, 2003

Sources:

Stanford Daily

TxtMania