Robert Krupa's Firestorm Spark Plugs=Plasma Generating Mini Tesla Coils

[GraViTaR]

They are not going to allow this plug to be mass produced.

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/Firestorm.html




Firestorm (left) compared to regular spark plug (right).

What's the big deal? You can run your car on WATER just by using these plugs.
The plasma arc fills the entire combustion chamber and breaks whatever is in the field down to it's constituent components; i.e., water into hydrogen and oxygen.

We can make these ourselves: Very simple to modify an existing spark plug. The inventor did just that in his basement in less than two hours.

[GraViTaR]

I just found this YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abwXApkLhbc

[sm0ky2]

here is his interview with NEXUS magazine, he describes how he made it


//http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/Firestorm.html

[sm0ky2]

sorry that was up there already..

sounds pretty simple to do.. perhaps we can make our own 12v plasma cannons?

[Davetech]

Hmmmm... I examined both patents and from what I saw, he has found another way to make a sparkplug. Period. I was not impressed.

Neither patent claimed that it fills the entire combustion chamber with plasma. Neither patent said anything about running an internal combustion engine on water. What it does claim is that it can reduce misfires by offering the spark more places to jump between the electrodes. The "constantly moving" spark conjures up an image of the novelty plasma touch globes, but that is an incorrect image, IMO intentionally meant to mislead. If that were the case, it would cause a terrible case of pre-ignition.

The "slow motion" video makes it look like the entire bottom of the plug is saturated in spark. Actually, there is still only one spark jumping the gap each time the coil discharges, but the spark is jumping between different parts of the electrodes. The demo system is being run at a high enough frequency that the camera "sees" what looks like a constant, ever changing plasma field. It is very impressive looking, but if it were a true "slow motion" video, we would see individual sparks, jumping from different points.

The plug uses standard spark generating components to create a standard spark which jumps the gap at the correct time. The plug will probably have a longer life than normal plugs, I don't doubt that.  The "44 - 50%" increase in mpg must have been compared to a terribly misfiring engine.

When I see "They won't allow this to be mass produced" or "Not available in stores" it translates to me as "No reputable company is willing to stand behind this product".

I don't claim to be an expert but common sense tells me that there is nothing ground-breaking here.

SHOW ME...
It has been 7 years since the patent was granted, and yet we don't see any hard numbers in their claims. We just see a good sales job.