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Water as fuel for vehicles?

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  With all the talk of electric cars and other forms of renewable energy (with resistance to their introduction by some rather large companies who have other vested interests), I think it's time to revisit an invention by an immigrant to this country. His ideas in the 1970's could (and should) have flown. YULL BROWN – Political prisoner, refugee and inventor Yull, or Ilia Valkov, his real name, was born on the 6th of April 1922 in a small village close to Varna, Bulgaria. He showed a keen interest in technology from an early age but as a teenager served in the Bulgarian Navy. Later he moved to Sofia and studied electrical engineering at Sofia Polytechnic but after the coup on the 9th of September 1944 he was accused of tuning into foreign radio stations, spying on his own country, declared an "enemy of the State" and was sent to a concentration camp on Belene in 1948 where he served four years. After that time, he worked in the mine at the Labor Education Dormitor...