September 4th, 2023
India imports about 80% of its fuel needs. It is for that reason Ramar Pillai captured the imagination of lots of people, when he announced his discovery of herbal petrol in mid-1990s.
His explanation of the mechanism of converting water to herbal petrol has varied from using a tree from Boswellia genus, from some mysterious mechanism that separates hydrogen and oxygen, to mystical technology that allowed ancients to build temples that are hard or impossible even with modern technology.
I don’t think Ramar Pillai has discovered anything. In most demos, he uses spirit, methanol perhaps, and some sleight of hand to claim that water has become fuel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM5lt18-95Y
He was discussed here previously, along with the expose by LMES. The spirit of Ramar Pillai and his herbal fuel
LMES expose video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TndzyxMa92Q
To figure out that he is a fraud doesn’t require any scientific reasoning. Just looking at him when he does his demo or talks will make it amply clear. You don’t need to know psychology or understand body language. Intuitively one knows that the guy looks, talks, and acts like a fraud. The field of psychology itself is a fraud, but that’s a topic for another day.
Our obsession with alternate sources of energy, other than fossil fuels, has given rise to more than a few frauds.
Rudolph Diesel, ran his first engine on vegetable oil. Unfortunately, if we look at things from elite viewpoint, such engines with decentralized fuel source prevent exercise of centralized control.
What about ethanol, Brazil uses that in automobiles. Sugarcane cultivation is a legacy of colonial occupation, with indentured coolies from Africa, and India. So sugarcane farms are all in the “right” hands, cultivation requires fertilizers from the oil industry, and ethanol production is done in big factories. Ethanol fuel makes a very minor percentage, not significant enough to prevent central control, so even if it were not in elite hands, they wouldn’t care.
About 10-15 years back jatropha was hyped up as a source of bio-diesel. It was hard to grow, the yield was less, and in some cases, the seed kernels were of such poor quality that no oil could be extracted. Also we have moved away from rain-fed farming to irrigation. So native intelligence of making bunds, having live fences with trees and shrubs, that make water available for crops, was lost.
If such native intelligence were present, then jatropa could have been another shrub added to live fences, and could have produced seeds for biodiesel with minimum effort other than the initial planting.
Anyway jatropha could have been another elite project, what Miles Mathis calls as an “anti”, something introduced with an apparent purpose of providing an alternative, but ends up trashing all alternatives. Jatropha could have killed the research into alternative biofuels.
Hitler was an “anti”, “a hired actor in a vast theatrical production”, says Miles Mathis – http://mileswmathis.com/hitler2.pdf. To capture a country or a movement, create an “anti”, around whom the “patriots” or rebels rally, and wreck it from within. All the while, the man on the street believes the “anti” is really “pro” and working for him.
Could Ramar Pillai be an “anti”? He has been around for almost 30 years now, popping up every other year, claiming powerful forces want to have the invention for themselves. While he, and the poor people clamoring for his cheap herbal petrol are victims. Looking at him talk, one can quickly find out he is a fraud.
Is there any point trying to figure out what he is saying about his “invention”? Probably not. Of course if you want to learn some cheap magic tricks, then may be he can teach you some sleight of hand.
His theories are mostly absurd. His claim of using twigs of Boswellia serrata (Indian frankincense, sambarani), can be verified to be false.
His second claim about water molecule separating out into hydrogen, and oxygen, then combining to produce a flame is also not true.
He then goes on to talk about our ancestors and how they built the temples. His technology, he claims, like the temples, indicate skill and intelligence (and probably mysticism) that cannot be easily explained.
An inventor of such a sort, if he decides to go public, will not talk like him. Of what the judge who presided over his case said, of the praise from military that used his fuel, of praise from folks who tried his fuel, etc. Gloating about all the praise. And meta-data about his fuel. How it mixes with water. How it feels cool to touch. How his detractors claim that he uses a petro-chemical product, and how even a fool will know that petrol does not mix with water, and how his wonderful fuel does. And a long litany against his detractors about how he has been attacked, became a victim.
Sure, if I can lift a two-ton rock with my pinky, and balance it too, all I would talk about is how unfortunate a victim I am, how powerful people have betrayed me. So either the first part or second part is not true. That’s exactly Ramar Pillai’s case, either he has invented herbal petrol, or he’s a total fraud. I’d go with the second case.
He’s like a feminist trying to make everyone believe man and woman are equal. If I have to make you believe two is equal to two, either I am a fool, or you are a fool. Who is a greater fool? The one who tries to convince others about an obvious truth. If man and woman are equal, we don’t need feminists to convince us.
If they are not equal, no amount of persuasion will convince anyone.
If Ramar Pillai has his herbal fuel, he can sell it without revealing his formula. If he has no such fuel, he’ll always try to get a chance on TV, to showcase his “invention”, as long as some one will have him. Trying to convince others!
So are there no alternatives? I saw this video where coconut shell is heated without oxygen to get oil – Coconut shell oil extraction – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT1GNdRcnN0. Who would have thought? This is a very primitive process with clay pot, and steel container. One has both oil that can be burnt or used as automotive fuel (with further processing? I don’t know), and high quality charcoal. Coconut charcoal makes high quality activated carbon.
One can use other wood in a similar setup, extract the volatile compounds from it as liquid fuel, and also get charcoal, which can be used as fuel for cooking.
Higher temperature, pressures, and catalysts may require professional setup. It is not that petro-chemical alternatives are not there. The system may not want this, since it goes against centralized control. But it is being done by hobbyists on smaller scales.
One can also produce bio-diesel from used vegetable oils. Getting used vegetable oil is hard, most restaurants, and food manufacturers, reuse the oil till it gets absorbed in the fried food, or evaporates. Not a healthy thing to do, but that’s what they do, since vegetable oil is expensive.
So if we have live fences, then farms can harvest wood, convert to bio-fuel. They can also generate electricity locally, and have charcoal for cooking.
Not wreck the land through fracking, or lose sleep over global scamming, oops, global warming. Or wait for Ramar Pillai.
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This Ramar Pillai sounds like quite the scamster.
Yes, he is. And yet people fail to see his very obvious deception.