I think my family even has a story of the uncle or whoever it was that made or invented this carburetor! He couldn’t sell it because nobody believed it or the oil companies wouldn’t allow it or however the story goes.
What ever happened to the “Tornado Fuel Saver”. Unfortunately Amazon is out of stock and don’t know when/they will get more.
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The Fish carb myth, as with most urban legends, is always “my friend’s uncle” or “a guy I worked with’s father” or something similar.
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According to a web search the ’ Fish Carburetor ’ was developed by John Robert Fish in the 1930’s to solve a problem with the fuel bowls at that time .
I read somewhere recently that someone had mounted a lawn mower carb on their engine. Supposedly ran which would make sense. Can’t imagine it had much power.
Years ago my bil ran across a guy at a truck stop who was demonstrating how he was running his car off of hydrogen from a tank of water. Guess it didn’t make it to the market.
Oh yeah, lots of “HHO” kits were sold, none worked. Search on “HHO” on this site, several discussions from years ago. There were the ‘fuel your car with water’ scams, too, one showed up on our local news broadcast.
A YouTuber put a lawnmower carb on 302 V8 in a Ford Maverick. Yeah, not so powerful.
It seems like it would be pretty easy to home-brew a diy’er carb from a couple of tin cans and copper tubing that would allow the car to run at moderate speeds. A carb that would idle smoothly and also run at speed, home-brewing would be considerably more difficult.
Some diy’er out there must have made their own carb. The Wright Bro’s airplane engine, the carb was nothing more than a hot surface that the gas got sprayed on.
That just doesn’t sound Wright. 
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Would sort of make you worry if engine shut off while flying and the surface cooled down before you could start it again … lol … as I understand it, the engine had to be started w/plane on ground, using a special gadget they wheeled out to the plane. Presumably that gadget heated up the surface. Once the engine was running the surface stayed hot from engine heat.
In early gas engines, the “ignition” consisted of a hot tube of metal.
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Are you trying to say the Wright brothers might be the wrong brothers? 
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Driving through Ohio I see a lot of cars claiming first flight. But that’s another story. We all know it didn’t happen in Ohio.
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The Ohio plates say “ Birthplace of Aviation” North Carolina says “First in Flight” Just saying.
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That was a big thing 10 years ago. Someone behind me in line at Walmart had printed out directions in plastic page protectiors and was buying parts to make an HHO system.
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Such a thing is possible, but the energy needed to free the hydrogen molecule from it’s oxygen partner would make the process somewhat questionable, economics-wise.
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It’s a guaranteed money loser.
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The other one I’ve seen spread around is the guy claiming to pay over $1 per kWh and talking about how much it’ll cost to charge an EV. Simple google search shows that the highest average per kWh is Germany at 39 cents USD equivalent.
I think it could cost that much here in San Jose in certain situations. While more than other areas in USA, electricity is still relatively inexpensive if using electric power mostly in off-peak hours, and don’t use so much per month you go into the higher priced tiers. During peak hours (afternoons), and if you’ve used so much you are in a high priced tier, $1 per kwh is probably within reach. No car charging, but my electric bill is typically in the $40 per month range most of the year, mid-winter maybe $60.
Many of the EV chargers cost around 30 cents a KWhr when charging. I have watched a few videos of EVers taking trips and seen the costs. A couple with trailers attached.