It may very well be that was developed, but the article Supercharged presented says something very different.
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Environment
An Inhabitant of Quebec invents an apparatus which would make the cars non-polluting
The solution with the climatic changes could come well from Prévost, in Quebec.
A small company, Econoco, would have developed an apparatus which, when it is installed on the engine of a car, would bring back to zero the toxic fumes.
The same apparatus would allow also a saving in gasoline while increasing the performance of the vehicles.
A small gadget splits up the molecules of the fuel once installed on the gasoline line of the engine, making them thus more fluid.
"One breaks the gasoline to reorganize it then so that it burns better. A gasoline which burns better, automatically, form less carbon, which makes it possible to keep the candles longer ", affirms Gilbert Monge, representative of Econoco.
This electromagnetic system baptized Econopro was to serve, at the beginning, to purify water, but its inventors noted that once applied to the fuels, the results was even more amazing.
Tests were carried out hanging one year to the laboratories of the automobile techniques of the collegial City, in Ottawa, one of the only institutions accredited with the country. The apparatus was placed on three different vehicles and, each time, the conclusions was the same ones: zero polluting emanation.
The outlets for this apparatus are enormous. All the types of engines are adaptable, including those of the planes. The invention could cost 750 dollars the unit on a car. It would not any more remain but to interest the large companies in this invention.