Inventor of water powered car jailed for 20 years

[alternative_answer]

MANILA, Philippines—Daniel Dingel, 82-year-old inventor of a “water-powered car,” has been convicted of “estafa” [swindling] and sentenced to a maximum of 20 years imprisonment by the Parañaque City Regional Trial Court.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081220-179008/Inventor-82-gets-20-years-for-estafa

[cafetimes1991]

Damn it, world!
See ''How the Electric Car Was Killed''.

[druggalo]

that blowz

[alternative_answer]

Peter Aldred the founder of Ethosworld (http://www.dinglefoundation.com/index.php?id=alternative-answer) had been working with Daniel. The Daniel Dingle foundation has been set up as a strategic alliance partnership between Ethos World GmbH Schweiz and Daniel Dingle, the Filipino Inventor, to commercially develop his inventions and to promote their benefits so that everyone in the world can gain from their unique properties.

[whitelightrabbit]

poor old fella... what about respecting elders?

[romas]

This wouldn't seem odd if you read John Perkins books, sure Daniel could be a scam, but I'd wager he was silenced.

[the worm that turned]

It would appear that the water powered car will be with us from 2009 onwards - if you've got a spare $100,000!! Let's hope a more affordable one will follow...

http://ronnmotors.com/cms/

[localidiot]

I want to know what evidence they have against Mr. Dingel, those are pretty seriouse charges, but it seems he was able to convince people who should know better that his invention worked.

[alzee]

For a few years now there've been various websites selling the HHO Conversion Kits for your car. I thought they were a great idea as people were claiming some pretty impressive results.

I then did a little research online and found a few websites debunking the idea completely. They all agreed that the procedure worked, in that Hydrogen is produced, but that the amount of energy produced was negated because the amount of energy required to actually 'split' the water and produce the hydrogen was at least equivalent to the energy gained from the hydrogen itself.

My father-in-law recently sent me a link to a website making great Hydrogen Conversion claims... i promptly responded with a few links debunking it.

Last weekend, I met a guy who's actually developed and installed several versions of these HHO devices. He's just some guy who's really into engineering and did all this from his home. He showed me several of the earlier versions of these devices, and although I didn't really know what I was looking at, I understood his explanations of how the devices worked. His most recent version is currently fitted to his campervan. The vehicle used to get approx 26mpg... with the device fitted, he's getting 57mpg!

Now I don't know this guy from Adam - he wasn't trying to sell me anything nor gain investment of any kind, he was simply showing me his homemade 'toys'. I have no reason to doubt the veracity of his claims, in fact, he's a long-standing friend of one of my long-standing friends (who was there at the time).

Needless to say, I am now a convert to this technology. I'm now waiting for him to sort the tech to the extent where he can fit it to my new Diesel Mini, although he's struggling with fitting the device to new cars that are Turbo based. I'm sure he'll crack it though, and when he does I'll report back here with beforw and after mpg results :)

I'm off to the in-laws for dinner later today... it seems i owe the father-in-law an apology, lol


Edit: it turns out that one of the well known websites that are debunking the idea, is none other than Popular Mechanics, and we all know how much integrity they have! :rolleyes:

Edit: http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49053

[sophia_h]

MANILA, Philippines—Daniel Dingel, 82-year-old inventor of a “water-powered car,” has been convicted of “estafa” [swindling] and sentenced to a maximum of 20 years imprisonment by the Parañaque City Regional Trial Court.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081220-179008/Inventor-82-gets-20-years-for-estafa


at his age thats a LIFE SENTENCE !

:mad:


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[seanie]

there was a top gear episode about this a car that runs on hydrogen made by toyota they are doing test in florida if someone want's to google it they can find a link i'm too lazy

[always_rebel]

MANILA, Philippines—Daniel Dingel, 82-year-old inventor of a “water-powered car,” has been convicted of “estafa” [swindling] and sentenced to a maximum of 20 years imprisonment by the Parañaque City Regional Trial Court.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081220-179008/Inventor-82-gets-20-years-for-estafa

They let off nazis cos they're old. Or Jewish:



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cd/Salomon_Morel.jpg/180px-Salomon_Morel.jpg
Salomon (Solomon or Shlomo) Morel (November 15, 1919 in Grabowo, Poland – February 14, 2007 in Tel Aviv) was a Jew born in Poland. He was a Holocaust survivor who, between February and November 1945, was a member of the Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (State Security) and the commandant of the Stalinist-era concentration camp Zgoda in Świętochłowice, Poland. The camp held political prisoners, German nationals and Poles from Silesia. Most of the inmates were civilians, including women and some children. Up to 1,695 people (out of 6,000 inmates who had passed through the camp during this period) died, most due to ill treatment and outright torture and murder. Morel was accused of causing these deaths by deliberately giving low food rations, systematically torturing and mistreating prisoners, and failing to take sanitary precautions. In 1992, he fled to Israel from Katowice, Poland after the Polish media had begun to publicize his case. He refused to return to Poland, where he was accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, for his trial which began in 1996. Israel rejected several Polish requests for extradition, the last one in July 2005.

[musti]

Damn it, world!
See ''How the Electric Car Was Killed''.

"Who Killed the Electric Car?"
Excellent documentary!

http://www.enduringearth.com/Portals/23/images/Content/electric.jpg