Bios & Ecotube
Here's another one!
The good people at Bios - the company which manufactures and sells the Ecotube - don't even make any specific claims for their product!
This thing is so good, it sells itself - with a little help from a dash of pseudoscience, a large helping of community guilt and a slick website. They do make a claim that a test produced 10% saving in fuel consumption, but in a complete lack of surprise, the device has never been tested under controlled conditions.
The name itself is a cynical attempt to hop on the "green" bandwagon.
Yet again, we are faced with a company producing unknown technology, using a process which sounds scientific, but which in reality is a joke.
The company tries to hide behind the same veneer of respectability that GasWiz and Fuelstar do - saving toxic and harmful emissions! What a noble goal! What a pity that noble goal is being compromised by people selling devices which don't do what they say they do. We challenge Bios to undertake testing to find out what changes are made to exhaust emissions after fitting the device. As usual, this offer is at our cost.
Keep watching for their response!
In the meantime, some interesting facts about the Ecotube device:
The idea has been around for a long time and all testing so far has shown no physical effect from use of the device. Refer Consumer magazine article on the subject.
One possibility is that the heat makes the motor run on a leaner mixture (more air, less fuel). This will certainly reduce your fuel consumption.
And blow up your motor.
In a mirror of GasWiz & Alt-Power, Bios and Ecotube are also involved in looking into...
Fuel cells! When will people learn that simple physics is just that - simple? It takes more energy to extract the hydrogen than is available from the hydrogen used as fuel. Great idea, but like lots of science fiction - time travel, beaming people and supra-light travel, it must stay a fantasy. Yet the "inventor" of this particular piece of rubbish claims to run a motorcycle on water!
Where is it?
Why does this company, with its wonder technology and team of experts not have a premises it operates from?
Why does the website contain no contact details other than e mail?
Why are all of the details about all of the projects and products rudimentary? Lots of flash animation, no names, no details, no scientific data... typical of all fuel saver cons. Maybe there's a handbook for how to start up a fuel-saving con?
Overall, it's no surprise that Ecotube is back, even after the Consumer smackdown. Like chain letters and pyramid games of old, they just keep coming on back.
Ecotube appears to be a clone of another piece of overpriced tubing in an American device called the Vortec Cyclone! Gosh, they have cute names for these things - maybe they're in the handbook too. Google the Vortec cyclone if you must - I'm not adding to their link rating by linking this site to their crap.
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