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Can this man save the world?
Everyone wants to cut car emissions. Sooner or later, someone will find a
way to do it. Joe Williams hopes it's him.
WILLIAM MARSDEN The Gazette
Saturday, September 17, 2005
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-090911200e96&page=2) CREDIT: JOHN MAHONEY, THE GAZETTE Peter
Romaniuk of Innovative Hydrogen Solutions looks over his company's machine, which
the company claims eliminates almost all emissions from gasoline-powered
vehicles. The company says it is developing a version of the machine that will be
one-eighth the size of the current prototype and that should be ready by
next year.
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Joe Williams Sr. believes he has the machine that will help save the world.
It will make the sky blue, allow everyone to breathe easier, and, in a time of
skyrocketing fuel prices, save us all money.
Yes, it's hard to believe. Williams is a Winnipeg boy who cut his business
teeth managing McDonald's and Burger King franchises. Even now, he employs only
15 people in his Toronto and Manitoba offices. He entered this
save-the-world field only 11 years ago and has invested just $7.5 million in his product.
But before you sniff skeptically and skip to the next story, read on.
Because if Joe Williams turns out to be right, "I think Bill Gates and our
group will be shaking hands," he says. "It's that big."
"It" is his Hydrogen Generating Module, or H2N-Gen for short.
Smaller than a DVD player - small enough to sit comfortably under the hood of
any truck or car - it could be big enough to solve the world's greenhouse
gas emission problems, at least for the near future. In fact, it could make the
Kyoto protocol obsolete. Basically, the H2N-Gen contains a small reservoir
of distilled water and other chemicals such as potassium hydroxide. A current
is run from the car battery through the liquid. This process of electrolysis
creates hydrogen and oxygen gases which are then fed into the engine's intake
manifold where they mix with the gasoline vapours.
It's a scientific fact that adding hydrogen to a combustion chamber will
cause a cleaner burn. The challenge has always been to find a way to get the
hydrogen gas into the combustion chamber in a safe, reliable and cost-effective
way.
Williams claims he has achieved this with his H2N-Gen. His product, he said,
produces a more complete burn, greatly increasing efficiency and reducing
fuel consumption by 10 to 40 per cent - and pollutants by up to 100 per cent.
Most internal combustion engines operate at about 35 per cent efficiency.
This means that only 35 per cent of the fuel is fully burned. The rest either
turns to carbon corroding the engine or goes out the exhaust pipe as greenhouse
gases.
The H2N-Gen increases burn efficiency to at least 97 per cent, Williams said.
This saves fuel and greatly reduces emissions.
It also means less engine maintenance and oil changes. The only thing the
vehicle owner has to do is refill the unit with distilled water once every 80
hours of engine use.
Tests show the unit itself should lasts for at least 10 years, Williams
said.
It can be attached to any kind of internal combustion engine: diesel,
gasoline, propane/natural gas.
Also, because the H2N-Gen manufactures only enough hydrogen to feed the
engine at a given time, there is no dangerous onboard storage of hydrogen gas and
no hydrogen under pressure.
Williams said his product, if it works as well as he claims, will serve as a
bridge between the present and the time when the combustion engine is
relegated to the scrap heap of history. The preferred interim solution has been
gasoline-electric hybrid cars, which remain expensive.
But Williams doesn't want you to take just his word for it.
The H2N-Gen recently went through third-party verification -- known as "proof
of concept" - at Wardrop Engineering Inc. of Toronto, specialists in product
testing and development. The company built its own prototype according to
Williams's design and tested it against Williams's claims. It passed with
flying colours.
In fact, Wardrop liked the invention so much the company wants to become an
equity partner in Williams's company, Innovative Hydrogen Solutions, said
Richard Scheps, Wardrop's product development manager and a co-owner of the
engineering firm, which employs 600 people.
"At the time we first saw it, it seemed too good to be true," Scheps said.
"But for everything we're seeing it seems really good. It does work. So we're
moving into phase two. Refinements and further testing."
He cautions that it's "only a go when everything is finished." But if all
goes smoothly, he said, it could be out on the market in six to 12 months.
Further tests are now being performed by the Canadian Environmental
Technology Verification (ETV), a non-profit Toronto company licensed by the federal
government to verify environmental technology. Williams doesn't have to have
ETV approval for his unit. But he said that he is not going to market without
it.
"I think it has a high potential to do what they say or think it will," said
Adele Buckley, vice-president of technology and research.
"On the basis of what we have seen from other situations, it looks likely,
but we will wait until we get the data."
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FROM: THE MONTREAL GAZETTE NEWSPAPER
_http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=cfeb17de-d9
45-4db4-87a6-090911200e96_
(http://www.canada.com/montreal/montr...6-090911200e96)
Can this man save the world?
Everyone wants to cut car emissions. Sooner or later, someone will find a
way to do it. Joe Williams hopes it's him.
WILLIAM MARSDEN The Gazette
Saturday, September 17, 2005
1 | _2_
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-090911200e96&page=2) CREDIT: JOHN MAHONEY, THE GAZETTE Peter
Romaniuk of Innovative Hydrogen Solutions looks over his company's machine, which
the company claims eliminates almost all emissions from gasoline-powered
vehicles. The company says it is developing a version of the machine that will be
one-eighth the size of the current prototype and that should be ready by
next year.
(http://ad.ca.doubleclick.net/click;h=v5|32f6|0|0|*|m;20266891;0-0;0;9025658;237-250|250;11988553|12006449|1;;~sscs=?http://www.canada.com/cwb/province.htm
l)
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Joe Williams Sr. believes he has the machine that will help save the world.
It will make the sky blue, allow everyone to breathe easier, and, in a time of
skyrocketing fuel prices, save us all money.
Yes, it's hard to believe. Williams is a Winnipeg boy who cut his business
teeth managing McDonald's and Burger King franchises. Even now, he employs only
15 people in his Toronto and Manitoba offices. He entered this
save-the-world field only 11 years ago and has invested just $7.5 million in his product.
But before you sniff skeptically and skip to the next story, read on.
Because if Joe Williams turns out to be right, "I think Bill Gates and our
group will be shaking hands," he says. "It's that big."
"It" is his Hydrogen Generating Module, or H2N-Gen for short.
Smaller than a DVD player - small enough to sit comfortably under the hood of
any truck or car - it could be big enough to solve the world's greenhouse
gas emission problems, at least for the near future. In fact, it could make the
Kyoto protocol obsolete. Basically, the H2N-Gen contains a small reservoir
of distilled water and other chemicals such as potassium hydroxide. A current
is run from the car battery through the liquid. This process of electrolysis
creates hydrogen and oxygen gases which are then fed into the engine's intake
manifold where they mix with the gasoline vapours.
It's a scientific fact that adding hydrogen to a combustion chamber will
cause a cleaner burn. The challenge has always been to find a way to get the
hydrogen gas into the combustion chamber in a safe, reliable and cost-effective
way.
Williams claims he has achieved this with his H2N-Gen. His product, he said,
produces a more complete burn, greatly increasing efficiency and reducing
fuel consumption by 10 to 40 per cent - and pollutants by up to 100 per cent.
Most internal combustion engines operate at about 35 per cent efficiency.
This means that only 35 per cent of the fuel is fully burned. The rest either
turns to carbon corroding the engine or goes out the exhaust pipe as greenhouse
gases.
The H2N-Gen increases burn efficiency to at least 97 per cent, Williams said.
This saves fuel and greatly reduces emissions.
It also means less engine maintenance and oil changes. The only thing the
vehicle owner has to do is refill the unit with distilled water once every 80
hours of engine use.
Tests show the unit itself should lasts for at least 10 years, Williams
said.
It can be attached to any kind of internal combustion engine: diesel,
gasoline, propane/natural gas.
Also, because the H2N-Gen manufactures only enough hydrogen to feed the
engine at a given time, there is no dangerous onboard storage of hydrogen gas and
no hydrogen under pressure.
Williams said his product, if it works as well as he claims, will serve as a
bridge between the present and the time when the combustion engine is
relegated to the scrap heap of history. The preferred interim solution has been
gasoline-electric hybrid cars, which remain expensive.
But Williams doesn't want you to take just his word for it.
The H2N-Gen recently went through third-party verification -- known as "proof
of concept" - at Wardrop Engineering Inc. of Toronto, specialists in product
testing and development. The company built its own prototype according to
Williams's design and tested it against Williams's claims. It passed with
flying colours.
In fact, Wardrop liked the invention so much the company wants to become an
equity partner in Williams's company, Innovative Hydrogen Solutions, said
Richard Scheps, Wardrop's product development manager and a co-owner of the
engineering firm, which employs 600 people.
"At the time we first saw it, it seemed too good to be true," Scheps said.
"But for everything we're seeing it seems really good. It does work. So we're
moving into phase two. Refinements and further testing."
He cautions that it's "only a go when everything is finished." But if all
goes smoothly, he said, it could be out on the market in six to 12 months.
Further tests are now being performed by the Canadian Environmental
Technology Verification (ETV), a non-profit Toronto company licensed by the federal
government to verify environmental technology. Williams doesn't have to have
ETV approval for his unit. But he said that he is not going to market without
it.
"I think it has a high potential to do what they say or think it will," said
Adele Buckley, vice-president of technology and research.
"On the basis of what we have seen from other situations, it looks likely,
but we will wait until we get the data."
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