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Inset Fuel Stabilizer
15 Dec 2003
I would like to correct your "incorrect" information on your comments and
"accurate" information about the Inset Fuel Stabilizer...
I was never applied for a trademark, and was not invented by Mr Pearson [??]...also, of late, if you bothered to see the installation history and results from some well know installations such as:
Washington DC, General Hospital Complex (5 bldgs) Duke Energy East Chicago School System (buses and bldgs)
you will see that if something does not work, it shouldn't produce any positive results as all...get your facts straight as you are supposed to be in that profession.
Just a word from a man who deals in facts...all of the facts...
Sincerely yours,
"Dr George" J Molteni (JD - PHD) / CEO * The Energy Group *
reply: It seems the Inset is back but is now called the "Fossil Fuel Stabilizer (FFS)." My guess is that the "new" device is just as effective as the Inset.
"Dr. George," as Molteni likes to refer to himself, is right that if something does not work it should not produce results. However, he is wrong in assuming that any results a test of his product produces proves his product works.
The tests must set up properly, which in the case of this device would mean the same driver driving the car under exactly the same conditions, the same methods of measurement must be used, and so on. The test must be done several times on each of several vehicles. No significant differences between test vehicles can be allowed, e.g., getting a tune up in between tests or using different grades of gasoline would invalidate the test.
The Energy Group pages are full of testimonials and some pictures of alleged applications, including on of some airplane engines that apparently were tested by Douglas C. Latia, an Associate Professor of Aviation Technology at Purdue University. I have written the professor for more details. He called me and left a message that he did do some work for The Energy Group. One significant difference between the FFS and the Inset is that The Energy Group folks make no claims about their device being able to align fuel and air molecules "in an energy field" so that they completely burn. In fact, I couldn't find anything on The Energy Group pages that explains how their magical devices work.
8 Dec 2003
Your review on the Inset Fuel Stabilizer was a very good read and
hilarious! However, this product did not cease to exist and is currently
being marketed/sold through
Ffuelsaveco, or The Energy Group NJ (www.energy-group.com).
They are promoting the device in Europe, using the old Inset brochures with simply blacked-out Inset labels: replaced by "The Energy Group" or Ffuelsaveco. Recently I have been in contact with them (before reading your article), and they seem to be successful in installing the device on boilers of Chicago High Schools. Their promotion video shows interviews with the East Chicago High School officials praising the benefits of the FS... "savings of percentage". Interviews were shown of Mr. Ray Zabek of Budd Mechanical and Dr. John Flores of East Chicago Public Schools. They intend to place the FS in one of their schools!
How is this possible? Official organisations installing a device which the EPA concluded has no effect?
Looking forward to your reply.
With kind regards,
Nico Buis
The Netherlands
reply: What is it they say? There is no known limit to wishful thinking?
27 Oct 2000
In the case of the Fuel Atomizer, have you ever tried it? Have you
purchased a unit and installed it?
Bubba Gum
reply: No, and I've never tried one of Alex Chiu's immortality rings, either. Have you?
18 Jul 2000
Back on 3/7/98 I wrote to you to mention that the EPA was about a month
away from completing their testing of this toy. I guess it's not unusual
for delays to occur, but it wasn't until sometime last year that the tests
were completed. The results were just published on 7/13/00! I guess it was
worth the wait. You had asked that I let you know when the report was
available. Please refer to www.epa.gov/region2/air/inset.htm.
This has been a fascinating learning experience for me, as I followed the various developments, testimonials, lawsuits, absurd statements, etc. since 1993. It is simply amazing to explore the way people think! On many occasions, I wondered whether the supporters of this baloney honestly believed what they were saying, or were just pretending. Inset's lawyer told me they were sure the product worked because of the number of people who had put their faces next to the exhaust pipes on cars equipped with the device, sniffing for carbon monoxide or other pollution. He said "They couldn't smell nothin." Their sales rep in New Jersey was outraged at my suggestion in a letter to the editor of our newspaper. I knew she had problems with pollution in the well water at her home, so I suggested that she park her stabilizer-equipped vehicle over the well, in the hope that it would clear things up. (The president of Inset had told an audience at a product demonstration about an experiment in Texas where a container of water that was merely in the proximity of one of his devices had become decontaminated. He spoke of their plans to build very large stabilizers for water reservoirs. I was simply suggesting she try a method that was consistent with his claim, and I referred to this claim in my letter.) She replied with her own letter to the editor, accusing me of making a joke of a very serious matter. She completely ignored my reference to her own leader's claim. Inset's president told that same audience that dynamometer testing was not an accurate method of verifying his claims of increased horsepower, because "when you're dealing with a dyno, you're dealing with negative energy, and that energy disrupts anything that's positive". Seriously!!!
Three books helped me make some sense of all of this: Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World, Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things and Thomas Gilovich's How We Know What Isn't So.
I really enjoy your Skeptic's Dictionary. Keep up the good work.
Marty Silvanage
reply: And thank you for your persistence, Marty.
14 Sep 1997
Inset's current web
site includes an article from "Trackside" magazine. The article contains
a technical description of the device's (workings) at the molecular level
from Mr. John Nacco, Inset's Executive Vice President. Nacco says the device
removes the positive charge from the fuel molecules.
Back in 1995 Inset's President, Mr. Robert Pearson, told an audience at a product demonstration that the device worked by "stripping electrons".
Do you think this gizmo really "aligns fuel molecules" for improved
combustion, as these two guys claim? I might have an easier time believing
it if their stories weren't so misaligned.
Marty Silvanage
23 Mar 1997
I came across your mention about a product called the Fuel Stabilizer
which someone thought might be the same as something they had seen
marketed as the Vitalizer. The Vitalizer is a legitimate product
which
I have had installed on my Dodge Dakota pickup for the past eight
years. After 330,000 miles (yes I said 330,000) the truck has never
needed any engine work and still runs like new and gets about 20MPG,
about 2MPG more than it got when it was brand new before I installed
the
Vitalizer. You can get details about this excellent device at http://www.vitalizer.com/
Larry Kuttner
reply: You should write to the Vitalizer people, Larry. They could use your testimonial. On second thought, maybe you should contact the people at Dodge. Sounds like quite a truck.
Inset Fuel Stabilizer
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