I have been experimenting with energy saving devices since I was a teen. I was inspired by something I was shown by my father, in his work place.

He was Millwright by trade and used to work on all kinds of equipment mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, turbines and generators of all sizes, besides being a farmer also.

There is one though, that impressed upon me. It was an old diesel motor taken from a German sub marine and re-designed to run a huge generator to power a sugar mill and the surrounding housing estate. This huge motor was like a story high and you walked on it. attached to it was a large tank of crude oil and running through it was the exhaust. The exhaust was used to heat up the crude oil to a certain temperature then it would switch over from diesel to crude. The cost saving was big.

The whole concept caused me to build a device that did the same for petrol, and petrol having a better evaporation rate than diesel caused me to convert petrol into gas while I was driving, I tried it out over a long drive for 800 km and it worked perfectly, I had a fuel consumption before of 13km/l and it boosted this to 22km/l at an average speed of 120 km/h. There was a question of running a bit lean and burning a hole in a piston, but I overcame this by having a water condenser that condensed atmospheric water vapour into drops through a venturi action on the cars carburettor. Water drops prevent knock in the combustion chamber and actually combined with the high fume content created a perfect scenario. I call it fumes because the word vapour would seem more like a mist than the dense evaporated content of petrol evaporating.

Then fuel injection came out and this killed the carburettor. But the same theory applied to this. I had a 2.0l BMW K jetronic FI system so I adapted the system with a fuel heating system and an evaporator that caused the fuel to with a high fume content, this again gave me an increase in Litres/km from before of 10km/l to 15km/l town driving, and it boosted to 18km/l open road at 120km/h. I didn’t use water injection on this car, but I know that it would have made more savings if I had. The boost also from water injection is like running a mini turbo it also keeps the engine clean from carbon build up.

A friend of mine decided to learn a bit from this so we took his car and I used two large 2 litre Coke bottles and cut them in two, joining one side to the carb, and the inner section was filled with strong fuel resistant foam. The foam acts as a dryer, and mounted in front of the foam was an electronic fuel injector, connected straight to the mechanical pump and the coil was the trigger for the injector. We started the car with just this, and no fuel in the carb. After a bit of tuning the butterfly on the car we could get it to idle. We set off on the road and ran a constant 100 km/h and being a 1400 cc engine we drove for comfortably 45km on a litre of petrol.

I have made the Hydrogen generator also and it works perfect for hydrogen generation, but is very dangerous, I blew mine up when I was running a flame on it, a leak past the non return valve, and a flash back.

These devices are very cheap to build and all can be used to run a generator that can supply your house with energy sufficient for electricity or gas for heating or a mix of both.

I also experimented with Solar panels and inverters for charging a battery collection, then run the inverters for the house without changing your 240v AC wiring system.

You can get 5000 Watt inverters but this will only be used mainly during the night for your hours before you go to sleep.

For information on other fuel burning devices, have a look at Natural Gas Turbine Turbines and more