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Old 07-15-08, 03:28 PM   #2 (permalink)
Dougal
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There's a big problem in the first paragraph.
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Josef Papp, a Hungarian emigrant to Canada discovered an engine based on the properties of the inert gases, such as Helium. It is known nowadays that these gases, compressed and ignited under certain electrical conditions, can offer a blast powerful enough to blow up anything metallic around them.
You can't ignite noble gases. They are completely unreactive. That's why they are used as shielding gases in welding etc.

It's bullsh*t.
If the first claims weren't ridiculous enough, they claimed to get 300hp from a previously 90hp engine running at 4000rpm.
300hp at 4000rpm is 537Nm, the parts used in a 90hp engine would break before they could deliver that torque.

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