Inventor Sold Rights To High-Mileage Carburetor

Inventor Sold Rights To High-Mileage Carburetor ENERGY Miscellaneous 26-1-37 Shortly after the story on his 80 mpg carburetor appeared in FARM SHOW in 1981, Richard Paul, Milton, Wisconsin, sold all rights to it to a German company. "They say they've continued to work on it and are planning to introduce it on a vehicle sometime in the next year or two," Paul says. The carburetor he developed was really a fuel processor. "My design actually separates hydrogen gas from gasoline, resulting in at least a 75 percent improvement in miles per gallon and, because the hydrogen was re-mixing with oxygen, there was only water vapor in the exhaust - and no pollution at all," he says. "It does nearly the same thing that we see with hydrogen fuel cells today," he adds. "The big difference is that my carburetor was processing hydrogen to be used immediately, rather than storing it for use later." Paul retired in 1991 from a career as an engineer at the General Motors assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin. He was precluded from working on any new carburetor for a period of 20 years by the terms of the contract with the German company. Since that non-compete time period has just expired, he's considering picking up where he left off on carburetor research. "It looks like hydrogen fuel cells may be the direction we're heading. I believe it's the only way our country will ever become fuel independent from the petroleum exporting countries. Everything we now use as fuel can be converted to hydrogen and burned pollution free," he says. "I still have all my tools and equipment and I've been thinking lately about some ways to improve on my earlier ideas. " Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Richard Paul, 7736 Newville Rd., Milton, Wis. 53563 (ph 608 868-7535).

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