Local claims $300 kit turn car into a hybrid

Ben Overbeck is well aware that what he's selling sounds too good to be true: A relatively simple system -- made with a Mason jar, rubber tubing and some electrical coils -- that promises to increase your ...

[im lovin it]

Your car will use no gas at all if you only click your heels together and say " there's no place like home ". This method is 100% guaranteed if you do not start your engine. Visa / Mastercard accepted.

[Cold Hard Reality]

"Wing nuts" Yes they abound in California.

[anon]

LOL a fool and his or her money is soon parted, never to be seen again!

[Second Law]

"Wing-nut" LOL
Only a small problem overcoming the Second Law of Thermodynamics: separating water in hydrogen and oxygen is indeed possible, but takes MORE energy to do that than you get back when you re-combine (burn) them.
Only a complete and utter fool would buy this.
On the other hand, you could buy it, realize you've been scammed, then realize your neighbors are probably as ignorant as you, so...sell the idea itself! PROFIT!!!11!@one!1!!

[Overbecks conscience]

I am a liar and a thief, but give me money anyway!

If it was published in the Times-Standard, that means that there MUST be fools that live around here who have more money than brains!

These people I can steal from because I am a lying thief.

[Chef deano]

Well now,
To all of you skeptics out there, here in Chico some engineering students have developed the "device" into a more commercial product.It does work, but not the was the guy here describes it.
Also they make theirs out of aircraft grade materials, not a mason jar and tubing. I've seen one made that way and they look dangerous.
They also sell them for about 45 bucks,I have one on my Ford truck and I get about 22 miles miles per gallon, average. My friend has one on an older model Volvo and gets 40 miles per gallon.
So before you start spouting the second law of anything, remember we are talking combustion engines here,big oil has kept devices like these in the closet for years.

[unanonymous]

HHO (H2O?) hydrogen gas (H2) and oxygen gas (O2), browns gas? fancy name for by-products of hydrolosis (splitting water molecules with electricity). hybrid? I don't think so. Still a single fuel source (gas) hydrogen from water vapor only increases/changes existing aspiration of the motor not power it.

[Evolve Dammit]

"there's no reason to believe that even more modest increases claimed by some of the ads could be achieved by a conventional, computer-controlled automobile engine,” he says"...so buy more gas

[frumphy winkerbeen]

this guys needs to set the crack pipe down what a friggin knuckel head!

[Herbie Hind]

I'm sure the Toyota, Dodge, and Ford dealerships' service centers will love when people try this out with their cars.

[Overbecks conscience]

Heh, yeah, right, the oil companies will kill anyone who let's this PRECIOUS SECRET OUT, UNLESS you pay a dip*** thief like Overbeck HUNDREDS of DOLLARS@!!

Chico engineering students? SUUURE.

I believe that! Publish some citations to this brilliant research that water can be used for fuel!!!@

MORONS! GIVE ME YOU MONEY!

[Eureka Stallion]

This has been around for awhile. The science is there but most of you wouldnt be smart enough to understand it. My main concern is that hydrogen is flammable and it wouldnt be too fun having your engine explode in the name of saving some gas. I dont think this guy is a scammer but i would want to see the results first hand. We should invest in this type of technology and tell the arabs to suck it (technical term).

[Observer Too]

There sure are a bunch of ignorant people with brains the size of lice posting here! You idiots just love paying $4.75 + a gallon for gas and getting meager mileage! The mentality of the maggots of Humboldt! I have never met more stupid ignorant people anywhere as I have here in Humboldt county!

[Stefan]

I personally know several people with these kits in their vehicles, and these people have virtually doubled their mileage! I am about to install mine on my car this week!

It's easy to drink a six-pack of beer every night while you make blind negative comments about something you know absolutely nothing about. Perhaps you wish gas prices would go even higher?

This is just what Big Oil and their Middle Eastern Bed-Fellows would like you to continue doing!

It's time to wake up, and embrace a positive change, something new and different for many people to do.

[Dr Hop Sing]

Well, I have a PhD in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and I say that this idea is complete b*lls*it. You can't get more our than you put in. Sorry. It doesn't work that way.

Ben Overbeck is a criminal scammer.

[frumphy winkerbeen]

Observer Too wrote:

There sure are a bunch of ignorant people with brains the size of lice posting here! You idiots just love paying $4.75 + a gallon for gas and getting meager mileage! The mentality of the maggots of Humboldt! I have never met more stupid ignorant people anywhere as I have here in Humboldt county!

thats funny I thought the same thing about S.F. the last time I had to go to that shit hole!

[anonymous]

If Ben Overbeck says that his concraption "works exactly like a hybrid vehicles costing $30-40,000" then he is a liar.

[Jodie G]

Hmmm, they might want to read this:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/07...

[From Fortuna With Praise]

Well, I have a PhD in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and I say that this idea is complete b*lls*it. You can't get more our than you put in. Sorry. It doesn't work that way.

I suspect that water vapor is being drawn into the engine, turns to superheated steam during combustion, adds additional power while extracting heat that the cooling system did not have to waste. Maybe not getting more than you put in, but instead turning normally wasted heat to useable power?

[PaveTheRedwoods]

Eureka Stallion wrote:

This has been around for awhile. The science is there but most of you wouldnt be smart enough to understand it. My main concern is that hydrogen is flammable and it wouldnt be too fun having your engine explode in the name of saving some gas. I dont think this guy is a scammer but i would want to see the results first hand. We should invest in this type of technology and tell the arabs to suck it (technical term).

ou know what else is flammable? gasoline lol