[#1CTYankee]

Interesting, a ratio of 16 or 17 to 1 is far more than I would expect.
Of course I am somewhat doubtful.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You can send your contribu... I mean investment checks directly to the inventor, to cut out the middleman.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Another ‘100 mpg’ carburetor?

[Slapshot68]

“I’m not sure if I’m watching a magic trick, or an invention that will make the cigar-chomping 64-year-old next to me the richest man on the planet. Everything that goes into Frank Pringle’s recycling machine—a piece of tire, a rock, a plastic cup—turns to oil and natural gas seconds later. “I’ve been told the oil companies might try to assassinate me,” Pringle says without sarcasm.”

My 65 year old Dad can squeeze out a lot of natural gas, too.

[DeusExMachina05]

Ummmm..hasnt perpetual motion been looked into?

[festus]

the first commercial version will turn 10 tons of auto waste—tires, plastic, vinyl—into enough natural gas to produce 17 million BTUs of energy (it will use 956,000 of those BTUs to keep itself running).

Blimey! Perpetual Motion has been discovered again.

[AnAmericanMother]

There's always at least one in every generation . . . .

[nuke rocketeer]

Same here. The quote about the ol companies asassinating him is a scam artist give-away, just like the 100 mpg carbs they have bought up and hidden all these years....

[wastedyears]

Ping for later

[redpoll]

I was interested in this EXCEPT for the stupid comment about the oil companies “wanting to assassinate me,” he said “without sarcasm.”

I’m sick and tired of this quasimarxist mythos about the big evil company of the moment wanting to squash invention and keep people oppressed. In fact, the oil companies would love this microwave gadget, assuming that it works, since people will still have to purchase fuel somehow and the oil companies already have the gas stations, refineries, pipelines, and fuel trucks ready to supply and transport the fuel.

Exxon and Mobil are going to kill the guy. What a load of crap. That statement right there makes me think this guy is a nutcase, not a legitimate inventor. (I hope I’m wrong, though.)

[KarlInOhio]

Everything that goes into Frank Pringle’s recycling machine—a piece of tire, a rock, a plastic cup—turns to oil and natural gas seconds later

A tire or a plastic cup I could believe. They are both made of a lot of complex carbon compounds and I could see them breaking down into various alkanes. The rock is where he jumped the perpetual energy shark.

[PeterPrinciple]

a rock

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Lost me there unless someone explains to be how rocks contain hydro carbons.

I hope he is right, but I am not willing to invest my money yet.....................

[rellimpank]

--another reason I don't read Popular Science except at the dentist's office--last time it was about making your microwave into a laser that could shoot down an airliner--

[Syntyr]

Plans are available for $29.99. I will even send you TWO copies of the plans for the same low price!

Thats a $60.00 value for $29.99!

[mnehring]

I’ll believe it when I see a commercial version running. How many ‘free energy’ or ‘cheap energy’ devices have been promoted that came out to be scams?

[grundle]

Several years ago, Discover magazine had an article called "Anything Into Oil" that talked abut the same kind of thing. I was all excited about it. I really wanted it to be true.

But it never came to be.

So I'm extremely skeptical about this. Besides, if this guy invented his machine 10 years ago, why hasn't he sold thousands of them over the past decade?

[Ouderkirk]

Uh, ever hear of Maxwell, Newton, Physics, Thermodynamics, Carnot, any of this ?

You cannot get out more energy from a device than what you put into it.

[Red Badger]

Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....

If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST just FReepmail me.....

This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....

[Red Badger]

Ping!...........

[Edward Watson]

I really hope it works as advertised.

[norwaypinesavage]

Actually, 17 million BTU's is about the same energy as in 1000 lbs. of gasoline. With 20,000 lbs of hydrocarbons in, I'm surprised the yield is this low. I am, though, surprised that he can claim such low input energy.