The little engine that could slash bills

[Algorem]

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Local duo's machine runs on laughing gas - and it's no joke

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Diane Suchetka
Plain Dealer Reporter

What if you never had to pay another electric bill? If you could power everything in your house, even your furnace, for a fraction of what you're paying now, maybe nothing? If you could drive your car 100 miles or more on a gallon of ethanol? And you could do it all without polluting the air?

In a few years you can. At least that's the claim of two guys who have developed a new engine in a warehouse on Cleveland's West Side.

The reason the engine works so well and runs so cheaply, they say, is that it isn't like the one in your car. Instead of spark plugs ig niting gasoline and creating mini-explosions that push pis tons and create energy, the pis tons in this en gine are pro pelled by a gas that expands with great force at just 95 degrees.

And that gas is nitrous oxide. You know it as laughing gas...

[mainegreen]

1. Sounds like another perpetual motion machine.

:eyes:

[greyl]

2. ? Nitros Oxide is already used in engine applications. nt

[transeo]

3. You better have a very inaccessible tank

Otherwise you know people will be siphoning your gas constantly to get high. I'll be one of them. :hi: