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There is a man who fills up his tank once every two months. One tank of gas, literally,
lasts him two months. He is freezing the price of gas by freezing something else.
People complain about the price of gas and we are all spending dearly to stay
on the road these days. The money we spend on gas seems to burn up faster than
the fuel.
While there may be little rhyme or reason to why the prices are on a perpetual
roller-coaster, there is one man who has found a way to freeze them in their
tracks, literally.
David Hutchison is a Cryogenics expert. He built this Cryo-Process himself.
He runs a business out of his garage where he cryogenically tempers all kinds
of metals. He submerges them in a frozen tank of nitrogen vapor that is 300
degrees below zero.
David says, “During that time, at minus 300 degrees, the molecules slow
down. Then they reorganize themselves. That's when the actual chemical change
happens.”
Hutchison cryogenically tempers machine parts, tools, golf clubs and even razors.
He says it makes them last three to five times longer.
A few years ago he began an experiment on his hybrid Honda, freezing the engine
components. The results were a fuel-efficiency dream.
David Hutchison says, “You should expect a “Cryo'd” engine
to last anywhere from 600,000 to 1 million miles without wearing out.”
A hybrid Honda typically gets really great gas mileage anyway, around 50 miles
to the gallon, but David Hutchison's cryogenically tempered engine has been
known to get close to 120 miles a gallon.
“It's just a very efficient vehicle.” Hutchison says,
Racers have picked up on David's trick of cryogenically freezing car parts.
It is now widely accepted among NASCAR and Indy-car racers.
Hutchison has no plans of taking his Honda to the track. His prize is in his
pocketbook.
David says, “I thought about selling it, but gas prices keep going up.
So, I thought, I'm not going to sell it.”
Hutchison tells us cryogenically tempering car parts has more benefits than
just fuel efficiency. He freezes all of the brake rotors at a car dealership
near his home in Missouri. It makes them last three to five times longer.