The hydrogen generators is a bit long winded, met a lunatic who put me onto the idea and showed me one he had made claiming all sorts of witchcraft derived fuel saving uses from them. I decided that I would build an efficient good looking unit to market and see what happened from there onewards .............
I found a wholesaler in the bio-fuels industry (green fuels ltd)who took three to test initially and came back and ordered another 50 on the strength of the good reports he was getting from the test units (I didn't complain as I was charging £1500 on a unit that cost me £400 to make, he was selling them for £3500)
Then the story gets a little odd, after selling the 50 I used some of the profit to test one at milbrook under real conditions and it actually made consumption worse ! This is despite having 52 out of the 53 units I had sold coming back with glowing testimonials from the end users about 15-25% savings on fuel
I'm not the type of person to flog a dead horse or lead anyone up the garden path so I decided to cease making them on the strength of the report. One of my wholesalers customers was a guy named Daryl Watts who ran a company called oil drum based at the university of kents business start up units on the campus and decided he would steal my product, claim it was his and use the university backing to give him credibility. I wrote to the university telling them of my concerns and got stonewalled followed by a letter from his solicitor telling me to cease and desist with my actions or face legal action. He got the university to patent "his" idea for him (how he managed to patent the thousands of years old process Of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen I will never know) and they entered him into an entrepreneurial competition where he was awarded tens of thousands of pounds for his "innovative " product and also lots of help from various organisations to further his business. Visits to No 10 Downing Street followed as he was doing his bit for the UK and environment (his product was a piece of crap and didn't work properly with regards to producing hho efficiently anyway) he went on to sell the licensing rights all over the world for somewhere close to a million pounds by my reckoning before anybody caught on to the fact his product was crap and the idea was floored then dissapeared into the distance never to be seen again, I think the fraud unit was after him at one point! the underlying fact was that there was a 6 million pound grant to expand the university campus in the offing and they thought his success would help them achieve the grant so they didn't care if it didn't work(that's just my personal opinion and I have nothing to back it up other than I told them he was lying, sent proof and they got the grant). If you google "oil drum, Daryl watts hydrogen scam Kent " in pretty much any combination you will find plenty about his wonderful invention and him claiming to have invented it himself. I even sent a letter to seda, the university and local Kent newspapers pre dating his claims to have invented it that he sent to me , it was on headed paper, signed by him in ink thanking me for the use of the unit he had got from my wholesaler telling me how well it performed for him in his "initial tests"
So there you go, a bit long winded and type of a big university squashes the little guy to get a financial reward and helps a fraudster achieve his aims story, I did ok, made about £20k along with my business partner who got an equal share and learned a few valuable lessons along the way. A friend of mine is still flogging the idea but as an engine clean device, charges people £100 to run hydrogen through their engine for half hour which apparently cleans it, de cokes it and improves emissions according to the exhaust gas analyser although I have a different theory as to why the end result is achieved and it's nothing to do with cleaning
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