Does your GasWiz come with a health warning?

Pseudoscience vs pseudoscience, Part II.

The GasWiz notes that the magnets used in its gadget are the strongest known magnetic substance. The Alt-Power website states:

The technology lies within the “Rotor” or turbine within the unit. It is made of a Rare Earth Magnet Material, Neodymium, which has one of the strongest magnetic principles available to man today, this being the first dual-rotating, single piece mass

Interestingly, Wikipedia says this about Neodymium:

Neodymium magnets are the strongest permanent magnets known

Is Alt-Power trying to down-sell the magnetic aspect?

To give you an idea of the attractive force of these magnets, a block of Neodymium magnet only 5 cm diameter and 2.5 cm thick will lift a 120 kg+ All Black prop! Evidence at KJ Magnetics

That's a magnet less than half the volume of an average computer mouse - this is some serious attraction going on here, but then, to align the hydrogen inside the hydrocarbon molecules is no mean feat and will require enormous magnetic forces. Neodymium magnets provide those attractive forces and align the hydrogen atoms, according to GasWiz.

That sounds very similar to the way Magnetic Resonance Imaging works - you must have heard of MRI scans? That's how they work, the hydrogen in our body's water is aligned in such a way that the human body can be mapped with great precision.

The premise of GasWiz says that doing this to hydrogen in a hydrocarbon will make it burn better.

Some facts about magnets:

Magnets produce EMR - electro-magnetic radiation, also known as EMFs - electro-magnetic fields. These are the things which get people all upset when someone wants to build a power line over their house. The World Health Organisation explains.

Magnets, especially neodymium ones, can permanently destroy electronic storage equipment. Your CDs fit this description. It's the only approved substance by the US Military for erasing all data from electronic systems.

Electro-magnetic radiation can interfere with electronics. This is why we don't have cellphones on planes. Is your car's on-board computing system (and if it was made after 2000, it will have one) safe from the EMR being created by the neodymium magnets?

Strong magnets, as used in MRI, and no doubt, GasWiz, have unknown health risks for pregnant women. Nurses and radiographers in the third trimester of pregnancy are excluded from direct exposure to the MRI when working. The Radiology Organisation says this:

pregnant women should not have this exam unless the potential benefit from the MRI is assumed to outweigh the potential risks

Does your GasWiz contain a warning for pregnant women not to lean over it to check the oil, water and washer?

Again, in an eerie similarity to Fuelstar GasWiz is promoting an unknown science, which could possibly work. If it does work, you are exposing yourself to unknown health risks.

 

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