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[Mogrits]

I'm late on this topic but can offer this: A friend is COO of a good sized
trucking company. He monitors their fleet in realtime on flatscreen TVs and
dives into minutiae of operating efficiencies looking for a penny a mile
where he can. He had some iteration of these magnets installed on a
percentage of their fleet and watched it for a while- I think 6 mos or so.
Whatever vendor sold him this idea sold it on speculation, guaranteeing
savings. (My friend is pretty shrewd).
He told me the results were mixed but disappointing. The only trucks where
they saw fuel savings were the trucks where they informed the drivers of
the magnets. On the trucks where the drivers had no knowledge, it was
business as usual.

They did not buy more magnets and offered the return of the ones installed.

Warren

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 11:00 AM Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:

>
> On 2020-02-06 9:18 a.m., Cecil Bearden wrote:
> > As I remember, this was supposed to align the molecules due to their
> > static charge.  I remember discussing this with a fellow Ag Engineer
> > at the time.  We could not determine the correlation between static
> > charge and magnetic charge.  I think that was how the sham was
> > developed.  Very few people remember their high school chemistry and
> > physics.
> > Cecil
> >
> > On 2/6/2020 8:53 AM, szabelski at wildblue.net wrote:
> >> The theory was that somehow the fuel passing through a magnetic field
> >> burned better. Don’t know how fuel gets magnetized since it’s
> >> non-magnetic. Even if it were to somehow change how the fuel
> >> molecules were organized as a liquid, this wouldn’t matter once it
> >> was vaporized through the carb.
> >>
> >> I remember seeing ads for add-on devices that you installed in the
> >> fuel line to improve mileage. I believe these were circular magnets
> >> in a small aluminum block. You installed it by cutting the fuel line
> >> and clamping the device to the ends of the cut lines.
> >>
> >> I remember in the early seventies there was a seed treater using
> >> magnets to improve the seed germination. I think it was just magnets
> >> attached to the down spout of the drill fill so that the seed grain
> >> passed
>
> through the magnetic field on it's way into the seed box. Never heard
> much more about it.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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