I am sure that you will recall that during my failed Senate campaign of 2008 I heartily endorsed the work of Dennis J. Klein, said Stegosaurus. "His HHO technology was advertised as an alternative to fossil fuel. Naturally, as a dinosaur I feel fossil fuel is murder so I gladly embraced it, and Mr. Klein came out to Colorado and spoke at my rallies. I really admired him for his care and concern about the future of the environment and of dinosaurs.

Now I have returned from my cousin's wedding in France, and I find in my mail a letter from my friend Cory who enlightened me about the kind of business that Mr. Klein is running. I am indebted to my friend for enlightening me. With his permission I will share his letter to me with you.

Dear Mr. Stegosaurus,

"Denny Klein is a con man. This scam has been around for a long time, unfortunately. The concept with the automotive application is particularly ridiculous. The idea is that the engine is used to power an electrolysis device to break water into hydrogen and oxygen, which is then combusted in the engine to increase the fuel economy. The problem is that the equation is balanced, and therefore zero-sum. 2H2O + ? ? 2H2 + O2 If you burn the hydrogen and oxygen that you create from the electrolysis process, you will only get back the amount of energy you put into the components during electrolysis. Since the energy comes from the same engine in which the fuel is then burned, all you are doing is creating a closed-loop system. While the electrolysis part of the system is pretty efficient, none of the other parts is. Every time the energy cycles through the system, you get huge energy losses from friction, heat, etc. What this guy is selling is scientific-sounding lies. He uses technical words to describe his process that often don't even make sense. For example, he says that his gas "sublimates". Sublimation is when a solid converts directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid. Therefore, a gas by its very definition cannot sublimate. Now, this guy claims that his gas is HHO, as opposed to water, which is HOH. I'm going to play devil's advocate and pretend that his gas can actually exist (it can't). The process of rearranging the bonds in the molecule would again require the same amount of energy that would be liberated during combustion. Secondly, this guy claims that his gas will burn without the presence of additional oxygen. If the gas could self-combust as he claims, it would have to be extremely volatile. It would either break down into water again almost immediately, or worse, given his claims of how much energy is liberated during the combustion process it would explode."

"If you want to see a real and truly amazing alternate fuel technology, check out thermal depolymerization. Look on YouTube for some really cool videos about it."

your friend, Cory

"When I saw that I was so upset! How could Mr. Klein take advantage of my trust like that? He knows my brain is the size of a walnut. I became so angry that the first thing I wanted to do was stomp on him forthrightly .... and for good measure whack him with my cool, spiky tail !

Only problem with this plan was that Stegosaurus Claus heard about it before I had carried it out and told me in no uncertain terms that if I harmed Mr. Klein he would not leave me even one present for Christmas. Therefore I relented my anger but I am deeply disappointed. Thank goodness for my friend Cory who has saved my reputation from further embarassment. "