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Program Plan 2008

Concrete Action

Toward a Rapid Transition

To Water-Based Fuels

Exposition

Technical Objectives

In 2008, the Institute will concentrate on the documentation and transfer of WFC technology, for the benefit of prospective manufacturing operations, and on the interaction between representative WFC products and both traditional and emerging engine configurations.

Recently, various 'hydroboost' apparatus have become commercially available. These vehicle electrolyzers, which inject Hydrogen/Oxygen and/or Hydroxy into the carburetor for reduced emissions and improved fuel economy, running on gasoline or diesel fuel, are similar in many respects to the Water Fuel Cell, though with lower gas yields. It is conceivable that some of these products may be easily modified with the Meyer pulse wave circuitry, increasing gas production sufficiently to become "full power" WFC units, able to operate an automobile as its primary fuel source. The Institute will investigate the conversion potential of all such products that can be purchased in the open market.

The Institute will also engineer and prototype various low cost WFC configurations suitable for both automated mass production and distributed manufacturing with unskilled labor, emphasizing durability, reliability, safety, ease of installation, and applicability to the widest possible range of motor vehicle engine configurations. Multiple exemplary Conversion Centers will be established, and a limited number of used vehicles of various makes and models will be converted to run exclusively on water as fuel, using the prototypical WFC designs, for test and evaluation purposes. It is intended that these designs, as detailed assembly instructions and training materials for manufacturers, and installation instructions and training for retailers, will then be made publicly available for a modest fee to any enterprise seeking to produce or install WFC compliant fuel processor products for motor vehicles. The Institute may also arrange for logistics support to such small manufacturers/installers in the form of 'parts kits', which encapsulate all of the discrete components necessary to assemble the complete WFC system.

Institutional Objectives

Programs in 2008 will include the Waterfuel Cellebration '08 Engine Technology Exposition, to be held in Detroit, Michigan. At this waterfuel and engine design trade show, 'hydro-boost' manufacturers will be invited to both train and exhibit, while new engine technology ventures will be invited to demonstrate their hardware with ethanol, biodiesel, syngas, hydrogen, and the WFC.

At the Exposition, a variety of waterfuel powered generators and vehicles will be presented by the Institute, continuously operated and available for inspection and analysis.

Intended to showcase all new engine designs at no cost to their developers, the Engine Technology Expo (and a companion exhibition of new Motor/Generator Technology) would award significant cash prizes for new engine design features which represent demonstrable improvements over the prevailing art.

To be judged by automotive industry engineering managers, the show would offer promotional incentives to attract fleet vehicle operators.

2008 INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TRANSFORMATION

RV Campus Tour & Waterfuel Tradeshow

The Foundation proposes to launch a nationwide tour of colleges and universities by a couple of experienced, retired college physics professors, in a specially painted and configured 45' Class ‘A’ Recreational Vehicle (the “WaterVee”), to raise awareness and personally solicit the students and faculty of each institution to enter the competition. A traveling billboard, not unlike Willie Nelson’s Biodiesel Bus, its striking waterfuel livery will be instantly recognizable, even from a distance. Wherever it goes, a multimedia presentation on the technology and the contest will be given, and the Exemplar device operated for and examined by the potential registrants. At each stop, the local news media will be given a media kit and invited to cover the demonstrations, which will be performed throughout the '07-'08 academic year

The WaterVee will not only exhibit the electrolytic converters in its own waterfuel engine and on-board auxiliary genset, in a towed trailer it will carry a variety of small generators and other popular gasoline appliances whose internal combustion engines have been modified to operate on waterfuel. Carrying the equivalent of a “trade show booth”, including models, exhibits, video, and other presentation aids, it will enable a complete interactive display to be rapidly set up and taken down, with minimal effort.

The WaterVee Tour will also serve to promote the First Edition of the Institute’s undergraduate engineering textbook, “Fundamentals of Waterfuel Technology for the Internal Combustion Engine, Theory, Design & Applications”, giving away sample copies for evaluation to faculty members at each university visited.

Approaching each campus, the WaterVee staff will solicit pre-arranged meetings with professors from the targeted Automotive, Mechanical, and Aerospace engineering departments, and the student chapters of the commensurate professional technical societies (ASME, SAE, and AIAA), to formally invite the university’s entry into the AquAutoGen’09 student engineering competition. Other departments with a potential interest, such as Physics, Chemistry, or Chemical, Electrical, or Environmental Engineering, and their organizations (APS, ACS, IEEE, etc.) will also be invited. The former disciplines are targeted for their practical perspective focused on applied devices, while the latter disciplines, traditionally noted for their skeptical denial of waterfuel technology, may have less to contribute to the Competition, yet are also invited to participate. A successful entry will undoubtedly incorporate interdisciplinary participation drawn from throughout the sponsoring instituion.

In constant broadband communication from wherever it goes, the WaterVee crew will transmit a daily Video Blog (“Vlog”) of their nationwide tour, the campuses and other places they visit, and continually post online their interviews with those they encounter along the way who react favorably upon being convinced of the reality of practical waterfuel technology.

Filmed extensively in High-Definition digital video, the WaterVee Tour will become the subject of an hour-long television documentary to be produced by for the Institute, through a grant it will extend to the highly regarded Center for Environmental Filmmaking, in the School of Communications at American University, of Washington, D.C.

After its first national tour during the ‘07 - ‘08 academic year, the WaterVee will re-visit those institutions that have registered teams to enter the Competition prior to the [October 1st, 2008] deadline, to interview the competitors, and to be available in support of any fundraising events each team may hope to hold, to cover the costs of their participation in the contest. The Institute will provide incentives for each team to conduct high-profile fundraisers, promoting their departments, their schools, the competition, and waterfuel technology generally.

Symposium & Tradeshow

Programs in 2008 will include the Waterfuel Cellebration '08 Engine Technology Exposition, to be held in Detroit, Michigan, over the Earth Day weekend, in April, 2008. At this symposium on waterfuel technology, and tradeshow for emerging vendors in the industry and engine designers, 'hydro-boost' manufacturers will be invited to both train and exhibit, while new engine technology ventures will be invited to demonstrate their hardware with ethanol, biodiesel, syngas, hydrogen, and the WFC.

At the Exposition, a variety of waterfuel powered generators and vehicles will be presented by the Institute, continuously operated and available for inspection and analysis.

To be judged by automotive industry engineering managers, the show would offer promotional incentives to attract fleet vehicle operators.

The Waterfuel Cellebration ‘08 event will occur one year prior to the planned university student engineering competition, and will highlight the activities of those teams that have already committed to enter. Seminar presentations will cover other aspects of the Institute’s program, and include a hands-on training workshop where those attending will convert a car to run on water, that they can then drive home in following the event.

Publishing Operations

The First Edition of the Institute’s undergraduate engineering textbook, “Fundamentals of Waterfuel Technology for the Internal Combustion Engine, Theory, Design & Applications” will be the first such scholarly text on the subject, and only the third known book ever published on waterfuel specifically. The First Edition, to be edited together from existing research conduced primarily since these were published, will present detailed engineering design information for working waterfuel systems, along with an in-depth scientific discussion of the unsettled physics by which they operate, for which no adequate explanation currently exists.

The Institute will publish 5,000 print copies of the First Edition, most of which will be distributed promotionally during the WaterVee Tour (above); others will be given to key research managers in the automotive, marine, aerospace, and prime power industries, to Members of Congress, federal and state energy officials, municipal public works administrators, and the automotive and energy industry trade press. The remainder will be marketed online though the Institute’s websites, and through Amazon.com, at some discount to the cover price of $29.95. Royalties will be disbursed to editorial contributors on the paid copy sales, in addition to certain editorial fees advanced for their services on a prepublication basis.

Training Materials Creation

The Institute will move to fill the need for professional, brand-independent automotive skills training, enabling the new occupation for the thousands of semiskilled workers required to meet the impending demand for retail installers of electrolytic converter devices.

Technology Transfer Operations

In 2008, the Institute will concentrate on the documentation and transfer of WFC technology, for the benefit of prospective manufacturing operations, and on the interaction between representative WFC products and both traditional and emerging engine configurations. Tech transfer programs will extend to both potential U.S. manufacturers, and others in the 10 nations to which the Institute will initially extend its global outreach. These are Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel, and South Africa.

Recently, various 'hydroboost' apparatus have become commercially available. These vehicle electrolyzers, which inject Hydrogen/Oxygen and/or Hydroxy into the carburetor for reduced emissions and improved fuel economy, running on gasoline or diesel fuel, are similar in many respects to the Water Fuel Cell, though with lower gas yields. It is conceivable that some of these products may be easily modified with the Meyer pulse wave circuitry, increasing gas production sufficiently to become mature, "full power" WFC units, able to operate an automobile as its sole fuel source. The Institute will investigate the conversion potential of all such products that can be purchased in the open market.

The Institute’s technology transfer initiatives will seek to establish both indigenous manufacturing and retail installation infrastructure in each state or province of the U.S. and each of the other countries planned for the rollout of waterfuel technology. Once these ‘capability networks’ are established, future, improved WFC designs can be easily proliferated in these markets around the world.

Loan to Trade Association

The Institute is presently organizing an affiliated trade association for the automotive and residential waterfuel industry, the Hydroxy Energy Association for Renewables in Transportation and Homes. The Association will provide the legislative/industry liaison and public relations services typically furnished by trade associations, and develop and promote technical standards where appropriate for reliability and public safety.

The Association will seek to obtain consideration for waterfuel technology through the renewable energy and sustainable resources research programs of the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture, and as a research priority for the U.S. Department of Defense.

The Association will seek to explicitly add waterfuel home power systems to the exemption provisions of the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (“PURPA”), along with solar, wind, and other renewable home energy alternatives, and to petition the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to take Administrative Notice of the emerging technology, and, ideally, to hold public hearings on the need to update federal regulations to account for the changes it will bring to the electric power industry.

The Association will facilitate waterfuel vendors in obtaining type acceptance from the General Services Administration, to be listed as approved for purchase by federal agencies, and specific authorization within the Federal Energy Management Program, which assists government agencies in transitioning to renewable sources of energy and/or the implementation of energy conservation systems strategies. In addition, it will work with the U.S. Green Building Council to seek accommodation for waterfuel technology in the promulgation of the forthcoming LEED standard for residential energy efficiency.

The Association will bring waterfuel to the attention of Members and staff of the incoming 110th Congress in 2007, which is pledged to eliminate subsidies for the Oil & Gas industries, in favor of new investment in renewable energy technologies.

The Institute will capitalize the Association with a loan against future dues, royalties, and proceeds from the operation of its programs, to conduct a public service advertising effort on behalf of the industry, including a capital advance toward its “Water: The Trees” campaign. This initiative will promote an industry-wide customer sales incentive on electrolytic converters, whether for household or automotive use, in which each end use purchaser will receive a live tree sapling to plant personally, and a certificate representing a second tree, planted in their name by an affiliate of the Association and Institute.

This ‘arboreal premium’ would be funded on a long-term basis through a voluntary industry-wide surcharge of $10 per unit sold, a roughly 0.1% override on the $1,000 average unit sales price expected for waterfuel technology devices.

Consumer Finance Program

The Institute will organize and initially administer a car-title-loan program to provide on-the-spot financing through participating retailers, enabling them to offer waterfuel system installation to customers with little or no money down. Secured by registered liens on motor vehicle titles, these loans will be made through a revolving credit facility to be negotiated with a major bank or nationally established consumer finance company. In the alternative, this consumer paper may be securitized and syndicated among institutional investors by a merchant banker retained by the Institute, to obtain the financing on more favorable terms.