What would you think if someone offered you, for $1000, to 
increase your fuel mileage by almost an order of magnitude? How about a statement that every single vehicle in America can be pushed above 100 miles per gallons? Well, one exhibitor at WIREC made this claim.
Okay, perhaps you and I are fellow citizens because, for this, I’m from Missouri: Show Me!
And, a booth display and lavish claims just don’t provide the proof of the pudding that makes me embrace this claim that would, if true, do a tremendous amount to solve America’s oil challenges overnight.
The Pre-Ignition Catalytic Converter (PICC) is advertising as improving fuel efficiency by ‘cracking’ the gasoline prior to ignition rather than having gasoline go through the ignition process for the Catalytic Converter to then handle unburnt gas molecules in the exhaust. The claim is a substantial increase in the engine’s fuel efficiency. At one point in the web claims, the statement is up to five times increase in fuel efficiency. Based on the “case study,” this seems a conservative claim as
we got 9X the fuel efficiency from a gas guzzling 318 V-8 Chrysler engine. … Before the PICC modification, the engine used 18 pounds of fuel. At an average weight of 6.15 pounds per gallon for gasoline, that would equal 2.93 gallons of fuel. Converting that into miles per gallon, it got around 22 mpg.
researchers then switched the fuel injection process to the PICC Modification and ran the engine under the exact same conditions for another hour. Now, the engine used only 2 pounds of fuel instead of 18 — an increase in efficiency of 9x. In other words, the vehicle traveling at 65 mph up a 30 degree incline for an hour would have obtained almost 200 mpg!
Now, “while the IPCC is being developed,” you too can get efficiency savings immediately. The Hydro-Assist Fuel Cell (HAFC) kit provides the capacity to add hydrogen into the fuel prior to ignition “which burns easily and powerfully and enriches your fuel mixture, giving you added mileage and power.”
We Absolutely Guarantee a Minimum of 50% Increase in Fuel Economy.
And, there are many satisfied customers, such as Dale P from Seattle, Washington,
“I’m tickled pink … I’m driving around in a car that gets 85 mpg. Couldn’t be happier!”
Wow. Don’t you want to be happier too? 
Anyone else ever seen The Music Man? Why, for example, is there no discussion about the energy cost implications of the hydrogen fuel?While the claimed “gas mileage” increases might be true, isn’t this because there is another fuel being added to the equation? That is just one example …
The video on the site is interesting watching. The Declaration of Energy Independce by Better World technologies opens: “You might have a hard time believing what you see … ” Absolutely right. And, that this video reminds me of bored moments watching the Home Shopping Network doesn’t boost my confidence. Does this mean that the PICC is Energy Con? No, but this Missourian says “Show Me!” before he’ll declare it Energy COOL.
11 responses so far ↓
1 Dave Tyson // Mar 8, 2008 at 3:36 am
Use your God given brain and do some research on energy suppression. Simply google energy suppression and learn for yourself. You will not have to look to hard to find the truth. Why is it hard to believe a 16 TRILLION DOLLOR A YEAR OIL cartel is corrupt. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! Do you think the EPA and the FDA are hear to protect the little guy. Who do you think gets ellected to congress and by what $$$ oil and drugs… WAKE UP PLEASE. I did several months ago the view is better form here I promise. The truth shall set us all free. Would you take an scam to Washington DC to show the presisident and congress?
2 A Siegel // Mar 8, 2008 at 3:58 am
Dave
So, let’s look at the first hit for “energy suppression”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_suppression
Where did I (or anyone else) assert that there is not corruption. Anything about EPA or FDA here?
And, simply read my post: show me.
3 eric krieg // Mar 8, 2008 at 3:35 pm
the real energy suppression is people trying to keep me from telling the truth about Dennis Lee – I have had internet harassments and lawsuits to try to silence my kind of info at
phact.org/hafc.htm
if this stuff was real, my requests to have it openly tested from 5 years back would have been followed. I still make an open offer to validate these claims. All the dealers who secretly talk to me say they are waiting on it. But they still take money for it.
4 PICC: Energy COOL or Energy Con?- gas mileage // Mar 8, 2008 at 10:22 pm
[…] The Pre-Ignition Catalytic Converter ( PICC ) is advertising as improving fuel efficiency by ‘cracking’ the gasoline prior to ignition rather than having gasoline go through the ignition process for the Catalytic Converter to then handle unburnt gas molecules in the exhaust. Free energy suppression is a conspiracy theory which states that advanced technology which would allow us to better meet our energy needs exists today but is being suppressed by special interest groups to whom the status quo is advantageous. Many free energy claims, such as extracting zero point energy, are demonstrably impossible under modern science. Other claimed means of suppression include buying the patent of the free energy device from the inventor or his family, suing the inventor or patent holder, or even assassination. read more […]
5 Jeff Poster // Mar 10, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I don’t follow your skepticism. If I’m correct and hydrogen is very very cheeap, then it seems that the mileage increase would still be a rate which would make it a no-brainer to opt for.
6 A Siegel // Mar 11, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Don’t follow the skepticism? How about looking at their advertising material/web site? Any indication there of that “very cheeap” hydrogen and the cost implications for it?
And, by the way, how about any discussion, for example, about potential safety issues with the hydrogen tank?
Apologies, I see the website and their presentation at WIREC and am reminded of The Music Man. There might be reality, substance there, but for the moment count me skeptical.
7 eric krieg // Mar 12, 2008 at 2:23 am
in open discussion forums on the web (not just skeptics like me), common people consider the HAFC ads a likely scam. It’s true, many warning flags go off. I think it probably is a scam – see my web site at
http://www.phact.org/hafc.htm
In the event it is not, just find one person who really has the high mileage who is willing to just demonstrate it, and I will try to locate someone near by who can test it. – fact is, I’ve been making this offer to these people for years – no response yet.
Eric
8 Rebecca Christiansen // Mar 30, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Thank you for the information regarding Dennis Lee’s scams. I foolishly assumed that a magazine as reputable as Newsweek would screen its advertisers, so this was a good lesson learned. Thank you for saving us from financial foolishness.
9 A Siegel // Mar 31, 2008 at 1:02 am
Rebecca — I cannot tell you that PICC is a scam just as I cannot tell you that it is substantive and real. I can suggest, however, the style of representation certainly suggests something from the Music Man rather than something of substance. Again, on this one I’m from Missouri, “Show Me …”
10 Lee Einer // Apr 22, 2008 at 8:02 pm
The first thing you have to ask yourself is, how much energy is wasted by a modern, computer-controlled, fuel injected gasoline engine. In order to realize a 100% gain in mileage through improved fuel combustion, your engine would have to be blowing half the gas out your exhaust pipe unburnt, and that is simply not the case.
Internal combustion engines waste a lot of energy, but that is because they produce both heat and pressure but only pressure drives your pistons. As a consequence you need a cooling system with a water pump that robs still more energy. But the HAFC miracle device will not address that.
11 eric // May 9, 2008 at 10:06 pm
All you need is a simple course in physics and chemistry from college to know about Karnaugh Cycles and how efficient gas engines are right now, based on the energy potential of gas. Gas burning is a chemical reaction. You can easily predict how much energy total you can get out of gasoline by burning it completely, (completing all chemical reactions possible), then working backwards and seeing how many MPG the car really gets, and that’s the efficiency. Gas engines are what, like 80% efficient right now? So no matter what you do, you’re only going to get about another 20% MPG from the engine itself if it were perfect. sure you can make the car lighter, more aerodynamic, make a hybrid that recycles braking power, but gas engines are pretty much tapped out.