MAURICE Malanes of the Philippine Daily Inquirer Northern Luzon Bureau talks to Victor Ayco, a Filipino chemical engineer and inventor, who is not worried about the current oil crisis.
In fact, he sees this as an opportunity to explore alternative sources of fuel with the help of science. Malanes finds out that Ayco has found vital clues to creating a gas-saving product, thanks to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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A scientist and inventor, Ayco sees the crisis as an opportunity for the country to tap the inexhaustible potentials that science can offer in finding alternatives to fossil fuel.
“Many seem to anticipate a bleak future because of the prospect that one day the world’s fossil fuel deposits will finally run dry,” says Ayco, 70. “But fossil fuel is not the only source of energy that can run engines of cars and other machines. There are other inexhaustible alternatives [to fossil fuel].”
He based his radical optimism on what he regards as a vital clue from one of the geniuses of the 20th century — Albert Einstein. That clue is the theory of relativity, or E=mc², where E is energy, m is mass, and c is the velocity of light.
The Mandaluyong-based chemical engineer says Einstein’s theory helped him perfect his gas-saving product, which he demonstrated recently before Baguio City motorists.
Essentially, Einstein’s relativity theory, says Ayco, states that “from matter we can produce energy.”
His invention called “aero-nitro power injector” took 15 years of research and experiment. Patented on Dec. 11, 1985, the device has been marketed only recently through Energy Philippines Inc., a private firm, which Ayco co-owns with other partners.
The inventor says his device “converts ordinary nitrogen (a noncombustible substance) in the atmosphere into combustible nitro-gas, and serves as gasoline and diesel additive in gaseous form for efficient engine combustion.”
With efficient engine combustion, a vehicle can run more kilometers with less fuel and emits almost zero toxic pollutants.
6 Feedbacks on "Einstein provides vital clue for Filipino inventor"
Brigitte
Mabuhay ka Mr. Victor Ayco, may the almight God guide you in cultivating and sharing your gifts (knowledge) for the betterment of the lives of the many poor Filipinos. I am waiting for that day that our country will be progressive and that there will be no need for many Filipinos to seek greener pasture outside the Philippines. I know that this is a tough task, but all great achievement starts with one small step.
I wish you all the good luck and more power.
Kind regards,
Brigitte
Poormanphysics
This classic equation cited by the inventor and described in this article appeared very simple but one must be careful to interpret it in fact one should dig deeper on the underlying background on how this come to being. One very fundamental fact is that particles travel in relativistic speeds that is at the speed of light can we answer that particles in this combustion process indeed travel at the speed of light? To the inventor let me ask:How does this “modern physics” Einstein equation relates to “classical physics” thermodynamics of combustion anyhow? What is unifying proof of this? Burning fuel is not a straight line equation to Einstein Equation this is the point were making here. It suffices that Chemistry is used to explain this fuel burning to another form of energy.
boy
Our Philippine Government should be all out supporting science and technology where it could provide solutions to all our problems from poverty, unemployement, high-cost of living, crime & corruption, rather than focusing into politics where it is putting our country backwards and backwards, further down the drain.
pierre
Huh? where’s the relativity in converting nitrogen into nitro-gas?
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Allan Roberto D. Garcia
This must be a joke. First he talks about fossil fuels not being the only source of energy. Then he talks of his invention - one which still makes use of a fossil fuel. And how does Einstein’s “E=mc2″ come into the picture here? That is nuclear science. You burn radioactive material (destroy its mass) and you have nuclear power. Is Nitrogen radiactive now?? I don’t get it.
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