Simplifying the Thunderstorm Generator

Diagram and Inspiration

Bob Greenyer

has been working with Malcolm Bendall on the thunderstorm generator. I don't care about getting better gas mileage, I care about going faster. I build racecars for fun. To that end, I would like a smaller version that adds horsepower instead of gas mileage, and is small enough to fit under the hood of a Mazada Rx7 from before 1986, when rotary motors were still carbureted.

Instead of having two chambers for the ionizer and the bubbler, I will combine them into one piece by having the light bulb at the top of the bubbler chamber. This will eliminate a part, and it will be closer to the intake, increasing the ionization of the air before combustion.

Rather than moving pressure around with the motor, I will simply put an air compressor attached to the airation rocks at the bottom. This will eliminate the need to steal vacuum and such from the motor that I will need for speed on the track. It will also allow me to control the rate at which plasmoids are made.

The point of my design is a bit different than Mr. Bendall. My goal is to suck in very humid, highly charged air, so that when it is moved into the combustion chamber, the humidity is turned into its constituent parts and provides more bang for the engine, the same way a Turbo or supercharger would. Turbos just force more air into the combustion chamber. I want to change the quality rather than the quantity of the air that get pulled in, adding more oxygen and hydrogen to the burn instantly when the spark hits.

By changing Mr. Bendall's design a bit I think I can use it to add lots of speed to my track times. The next step would be to use the pressure from a turbocharger to power the bubbler and move air from top to bottom. By taking inspiration from Mr. Bendall's creation and using it for my own ends, we all make progress together.

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