Nanotech fuel additive wins most-confusing award
H2OIL Corporation President Richard Hicks brings to our attention perhaps the most confusing nanotech product website we’ve seen to date. The company has an impressive list of successes for its fuel additive product, but check out this wording of a recent announcement: “Our 14 years experience in producing nanotechnology fuel additives has helped us realize some of its huge potential. Using ‘NanoGhost’ technology we have increases the power of regular nanotechnology over 1,000 times, using a unique combination of nanotechnology and chaos theory.” Can anyone tell what this additive actually is?
May 23rd, 2005 at 11:23 AM
It’s water with a little surfactant added to create an emulsion. Water has long been recognized as a potential fuel additive due to it’s high specific heat…but causes several problems in fuel systems. They claim their emulsion results in 60 nanometer droplets of water (so it’s nanotech), elimininating the problems. Let’s not bust their chops too hard for creative marketing if the stuff actually works.
May 26th, 2005 at 9:02 AM
I used their produt for more than one week but no sognificient improvment in fuel consumption was observed. I think this is ame as other fuel additives.
June 5th, 2005 at 10:36 AM
In answer to David and Andy, under static conditions the water droplet sizes are 90% between 3nm and 9nm. H2OIL’s liquid nanotechnology can closely control the nano-cluster sizes, to exactly suit the specific stage of the engine combustion cycle. Only liquid nanotechnology allows this kind of fine control.
H2OIL has been selling these fuel additives commercially for over 15 years. If it did not work, H2OIL would no longer be in business and neither would the Chinese government spend hard currency building a fuel additive manufacturing plant in China.
Andy, one week using our fuel additive is probably not long enough. Some gasoline engines need up to 3 weeks and some diesel engines need up to 8 weeks. All engines are different. About 2% of vehicles will see no benefit.
June 5th, 2005 at 10:55 AM
In answer to Cristine’s comments regarding a confusing web site. Sorry, but it is difficult to describe a new technology just enough to make it believable, but not so much that we give hard earned technical information away to potential competitors. H2OIL jealously guards the 15 year lead in this technology.
July 6th, 2005 at 10:08 AM
Dear Mr. Hicks,
I have forgotten your product after that 1 week. There are a plenty of additives in the market and it is difficult to choose. Today accidentally I see the added comments and it was surprising that you reply. Thanks a lot for your attention to customers. It should have left enough F2-21 ( I should find the bottle !) to start checking it again. But I mean it is not important how it works, it’s important that how it’s effective. I think that most additives in the market are effective but the amount of reduce in combustion is about 2-3 percent. This amount is too small to be noticed on my car and only laboratory condition can identify. But when I saw a huge effect (about 10%) in your site, I was interested in. You know 10% is large enough to be noticed by usual driver. But when the effect was not appeared, I said to myself, Ok , it was a trick: may be they have get the result in a special condition (an old and unregulated car). However if your product is true, you ought to give complete information about using the product on your site. The customers are not competitors and they only need the complete information about the usage not the technology it works or produced. One not-satisfied customer is more effective than 100 satisfied. I mean to inform in more detail in which engines this product is effective and how long it should be used. In addition the dynameters results which are in laboratory condition give the customer testimony that the additive works. But in your testimonials only some drivers say it works. I say to myself they may be not adequate enough, laboratory result differs and why the company did not present the laboratory results.
July 13th, 2005 at 9:26 AM
Andy,
Your comments are most helpful. We will try to improve our web site. For detailed instructions, including advice and tips on using F2-21, please refer to the instruction sheet included with every shipment. Typical fuel saving on gasoline vehicles is about 15%, so you should easily be able to notice the improvement.