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Daniel Dingel, 1968

Philippine inventor developed many technologies and is said to have converted 100 cars to run on water.

Ethos free energy is working with Daniel Dingle. They have set up a new foundation to help bring these products to the world whilst helping Daniel to raise money to help his fellow Filipino folks.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer reported that Daniel Dingel built a water-fueled automobile engine as early as 1969.

Ethos free energy is working with Daniel Dingle. They have set up a new foundation to help bring these products to the world whilst helping Daniel to raise money to help his fellow Filipino folks.

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Dingel admits that his invention in its early years relied on around 30 cc (mL) of gasoline to start the engine and during idling, but he emphasized that those early prototypes switched to hydrogen once running. Today's prototype is a dark red Toyota Corolla that no longer needs gasoline to start the engine.

Testing by reputable laboratories have been conducted as far back as the late nineties. In 1998, the Philippine Institute of Pure and Applied Chemistry (PIPAC) at the Ateneo de Manila Campus analyzed the gas output, revealing 45% Hydrogen composition. The year after, the TÜV Rheinland Group through TÜV Rheinland Taiwan Ltd. sent one of its engineers to describe the system.

Recently last May 2008, Mr. Dingel submitted his car for testing at the Philippine Department of Energy. The findings revealed that the hydrogen reactor produces a gas of 40.41% Hydrogen composition.

The Philippine Government almost started development back in the year 2000, as per a document for the signature of then President Joseph Ejercito Estrada.

Dingel guested recently on Philippine government-owned tv station National Broadcasting Network (NBN), on the program Balitalakay (news discussion). He was also featured on Umagang Kay Ganda (tele-magazine show of TV network giant ABS-CBN) where he attributed the long delay in his invention's development to rapid government policy changes and a lack of political will.

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Biography

Daniel D. Dingel: His car runs on water, his life runs on ideas

By FRED T. COMIN; People - The Manila Times; October 11, 1994

Committed to service

Daniel D. Dingel hails from La Union, his mother's province, but lived in an orphanage, as his parents died when he was still young. Americans from Clark and Subic provided the lad opportunities for a predominantly technical education.

"I earned my mechanical engineering degree by dint of effort from the International Correspondence School. Perfected by practical experience" he says.

Dingel admits that he once nurtured the ambition to study for the priesthood but Providence willed otherwise, Still, he firmly decided to commit his God-given talent for invention to the service of humanity.

Skeptics

It was in the early 80s that Dingel came into the national limelight with his declaration that he had discovered a way to make a vehicle run on water.

This was in the wake of the first world oil crisis of the mid-70s which stunned everyone into realizing that petroleum was fast-dwindling natural resource and that western nations had to knock their noggins together to come up with alternative sources of fuel, fast.

Covered by international mediaForeigners came flocking to grill Dingel about his invention, and a year or so later, one of them declared that the claim was hoax. But Dingel stuck to his guns and let Philippine authorities objectively evaluate his claim.

Test drives

In 1985, Dingel said, he drove his car from Metro Manila to Laguna over a distance of 167 kilometers consuming 15 liters of water and half a liter of gasoline.

When he made a trip to the US, he added, he had occasion to show Americans that his car could make the Detroit-to-Florida run on 60 liters of water and two liters of gasoline.

Government authorities have confirmed these claims in scientific tests and today Dingel drives a car with these words, in bold letters, painted on the rear windshield: "This car runs on water."

How it works

In brief, Dingel's invention uses gasoline only to get the engine started. Then water passes through two reactors in the engine which splits it into hydrogen and oxygen to trigger off combustion.

More demos

Dingel is wary of securing a local patent for his water fuel invention, but papers for this are under process.

Although he would like to help our struggling country resolve its economic problems, Dingel hesitates to deal with government agencies. For instance, in one project costing a double-digit sum in millions of pesos he was told that he would clinch the deal if he were willing to come across with about 80 per cent of total project cost in kickbacks. That, he says, left a bad taste in his mouth. So he abandoned it.

Other dreams

Dingel too has dreams of his own. He has embodied those in an organizational chart of sorts in which future firms of his projected conglomerate - consisting of real estate, housing, solar energy generation, agribusiness, newspaper and magazine publishing ventures - would pool all their profits for the benefit of the poor in what he would like to call the Dingel Humanitarian Foundation.

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Car of the Future

Sunday Revue - Bulletin Today; Sunday, September 29, 1985

DanielDingel.com Note: This is a text-encoded version of an original newspaper article as depicted in the photograph.

Here's the story of one man's struggle to find a niche in motoring history - changing motor fuel from gas to water - only to find frustration most of the way

IT WAS one of the smoothest car rides we ever had. The shifting of gears was flawless, the acceleration was effortless and the ride as a whole as normal as you can get from a well-tuned, well-maintained luxury car except that this was not an ordinary car.

From the outside, however, the Lancer Super Saloon was like any of the thousands turned out by the assembly plant. The body, the tires, the suspension system, the cooling system, even parts of the engine. The main difference, however, is that this car runs on water. Yes, ordinary, tap water which you and I get from our faucets.

The car is owned by Daniel Dingel, a 52-year-old inventor who claims to have perfected the world's first water-powered car.

The car generated so much interest and inquiry that Dingel at one time or another had to explain the concept to representatives of American and Japanese car companies, top government officials, Filipino scientists at the National Science Development Board, Philippine Inventions Development Institute, mechanics, car buffs and many others and almost singularly, all agreed that the thing works.

The Bulletin chief mechanic, Rolly Salazar, also had doubts in the beginning. But when he observed the system, he too, joined the ranks of believers.

The car, by no means, runs on water alone. Gasoline is also needed but only to start the engine. Once the engine starts, the gas supply is automatically cut-off. This was attested to by BT mechanic Salazar who himself blocked the fuel line leading to the carburetor.

Dingel says that an engine powered by water becomes very efficient and more powerful. "A drop of water," he says, "is equivalent to SS drops of gasoline."

What about rust? Isn't it that water causes rust? Dingel says that his research showed that gasoline shortens the life of an engine because of carbon formation. This formation, he adds, serves as a grinding compound on the parts of the engine and contaminates the oil. True water causes rust, but rust burns along with water and that burning of water reduces wear, tear and friction.

Dingel also claims that the car is a proven fuel saver. From Manila to Laguna, a distance of 147 kilometers, he said he consumed 15 liters of water and half a liter of gasoline.

He said he also tested the car in America and run it from Detroit to Florida. He used up 60 liters of water and two liters of gasoline during the travel. It was also there that some American experts viewed his invention. He said they were satisfied with the results.

Someone from BMW, the German car firm, also came to visit and though satisfied with the car, he wanted to be convinced some more and requested that Dingel dismantle the car.

Dingel refused. He has always been wary of people wanting to open up the engine because he is afraid that someone might steal the concept and use it for their own benefit.

Dingel says that the secret of his car is in the innovations he put in the engine which was a product of 14 years of research.

It was, at first, a hit-and-miss thing, he recalls. Sometimes the engine would overheat, other times, the compartments would be flooded, on occasions the sparkplug would malfunction or some important part would rust.

Finally he corrected all the flaws and the engine now works perfectly.

Dingle says that the benefit from a water-powered car, once it is mass-produced, is so staggering that it simply will bogle the mind.

For instance, he said, if the Philippine government would invest into it, which he, however, doubts, there will be a big drop in the consumption of oil and therefore a giant saving in foreign exchange.

The money saved will then be plowed back into the economy, creating more jobs and so forth and so on.

What then is stopping Dingel from producing it in a joint venture with other interested persons?

Dingel says "I don't want to think ill of anybody. I just want to make sure that these inventions get into hands who will not use them for their own selfish motives. I didn't work 14 years day and night to come up with someting for rich businessmen. I was able to come up with this car because I have always wanted to make life better for the people, especially the poor. I don't want to see hungry people anymore. We've suffered enough."

Atty. Eduardo Tan, assigned by the Filipinas Foundation Inc. as counsel to Dingel while the scientist was under a seven figure FFI grant for three years, reveals that he and Dingel have approached people in the government who tested the car and saw it work. They all congratulated Dingel, says Atty. Tan and that was the last time Dingel heard from them.

Why these government people haven't done anything about the water-fueled car is a puzzle to Atty. Tan, who has tested the car on a 500-km. run from Makati to nearby provinces in the South. Why this is happeneing, I don't know. Who can say what their motives are? But I do know that no private company would be in a position to manufacture the car here. The investment would run into hundreds of millions or billions of pesos. Only the government has that money.

What happened to the proposals of foreign investors? Dingel says flatly that he was not pleased with any of the proposals. "They all wanted to make big money out of it, just that, at the expense of the common people. I am looking for selfless, honest investors. I haven't found any." Dingel adds he wants the car to be priced within the reach of common people and no potential investor has considered that. (JDG)

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Pinoy maker of water-powered car still fighting after 30 years

By Joey G. Alarilla; Motoring Section, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Thursday, August 12, 1999

The year 1969 was a landmark year for a number of reasons, including the conquest of space and cyberspace. Even as that year saw Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon, so was the Internet born when its earliest incarnation, the United States Defense Department's Arpanet (Advanced Research Project Agency network), went online.

In the Philippines, 1969 was also the year that a Filipino inventor claims to have started tinkering with a revolutionary concept for the automotive industry. His idea? To power cars using hydrogen derived from ordinary water.

Today, 1999 might well go down in Philippine history as the year that "prez freedom" - the freedom of the President to do whatever he damn well pleases - ran roughshod over press freedom. As the sight of "hit-and-run" victims like The Manila Times and the Inquirer shows, the Jeep ni Erap seems bent on turning into roadkill anyone brave or foolhardy enough to get in the way. And, 30 years later, inventor Daniel Dingel is driving around in the only water-powered car in the world, still complaining that Filipino government officials and scientists refuse to support his invention.

"They keep saying that the government is pro-poor, but what they do is sell off the resources and wealth of the Philippines. The government should really support the development of technology that would help the country pay its huge foreign debt," he said.

At the Inquirer parking lot last Tuesday, Dingel showed off his "concept car"- a red 16-valve Toyota Corolla with the small hydrogen reactor that he invented hooked up to its internal combustion engine (ICE). Dingel's hydrogen car has actually received media coverage since the late '80s or so, but to date his invention has not yet been patented and commercialized. Dingel attributed this to the influence of multinational companies, notably the oil companies. A conspiracy theory worthy of the X-Files, perhaps, but if Dingel's idea is real, then the truth is way out there.

"The electricity from the battery splits the water into its hydrogen and oxygen components, and this hydrogen can then be used to power the car engine. Normally it takes temperatures of about 5,400 degrees Fahrenheit to generate hydrogen from water - and lots of electricity, but here I am just using an ordinary 12-volt battery," he claimed.

Just how this kind of chemical reaction is possible using an ordinary car battery is, of course, the secret behind Dingel's invention--and the kind of claim that leads people to dismiss him as a crackpot and charlatan. In fact, while hydrogen is being touted as a viable alternative fuel in the US and other countries, these prototypes do not make use of ICEs but fuel cell engines, nor do they run on ordinary water but on liquid hydrogen.

For example, last March 17 DaimlerChrysler unveiled in the US the hydrogen-powered Necar 4 (New Electric Car), which is based on a Mercedes-Benz A-class compact car. In these fuel cell cars, water is just a by-product of the reaction between hydrogen and oxygen ions, which produces the electricity to run the car's engine. In this sense, the fuel cell process is the reverse of Dingel's discovery. Also, Dingel claims that his reactor can work with any existing ICE-based car.

According to Dingel, some investors from Taiwan now plan to commercialize his car and help him get an international patent. [It is this which got him in trouble with the courts and a prison sentence in 2008]

In the Philippines, Dingel also partners with Cobis Clean Cars for another invention that his hydrogen car showcases - the so-called electromagnetic fluid (EMF) treatment. While this might sound like something out of Voltes V, EMF was supposedly derived from such plants as okra, saluyot, ampalaya, langka and water lily.

This treatment is supposed to improve a car engine's performance and oil life because it produces an "air magnet" to reduce friction to practically zero. Sounds like something the Jeep ni Erap could use to reduce friction with the media. Moreover, since, as Inquirer contributor Vernon Sarne pointed out, the Jeep ni Erap is alcohol-fed, EMF would make the jeep even more environment-friendly by reducing the emission of noxious fumes.

So, is this Pinoy hydrogen car for real, and will this idea soon drive the cars we're driving? That's the dream that Dingel has kept alive for 30 years.

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Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:11:00 12/20/2008

Filed Under: Crime, Automotive Equipment
MANILA, Philippines—Daniel Dingel, 82-year-old inventor of a “water-powered car,” has been convicted of “estafa” [swindling] and sentenced to a maximum of 20 years imprisonment by the Parañaque City Regional Trial Court.

Daniel Dingel Water Powered Car Inventor gets 20 years for 'swindling'
Posted by keelynet on December 20, 2008

The technology is NOT invalidated by this court action.

"Daniel Dingel, 82-year-old inventor of a "water-powered car," has been convicted of "estafa" [swindling] and sentenced to a maximum of 20 years imprisonment by the Parañaque City Regional Trial Court. The court also ordered him to pay $380,000 in actual damages. Dingel, who has never revealed the secret to his invention, which he began in 1969, questioned the verdict but said he did not mind going to jail at his age. As of late Friday, he remained at large. Dingel was found guilty of taking $410,000 from Dr. John Ding Young of Formosa Plastics Group, a Taiwanese company, which gave it to him as research and development funds. The decision, written by Judge Rolando How of the court's Branch 257 and released on Dec. 9, said Dingel defrauded Young when the inventor failed to fulfill his obligation of developing his "hydrogen reactor" and creating experimental cars in 2000. The unique device - a "hydrogen reactor" resembling a 12-volt battery - impressed the Taiwanese when Dingel demonstrated how it powered and fueled the car's engine. They were also told that fuel from water had clean emissions as it did not produce carbon the way gasoline did. After receiving the money ($300,000) by wire transfer, Dingel avoided replying to his emails on the progress of the project and instead sent copies of letters from other foreign investors offering Dingel larger sums of money. Young said he kept his end of the bargain by sending another $60,000 in additional funds for R&D as stated in the joint venture agreement. He said it was then that Dingel began ignoring his communications. He said he sent demand letters for the return of $410,000 were but Dingel did not give the amount back. Instead of returning the money, Dingel withdrew $375,603.89 from his bank account and left only $500. "He admitted withdrawing the money after learning that a suit had been filed against him," it said. "His act of immediately withdrawing the money indicated bad faith on his part." - Source

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Paranaque,

MEETING DANIEL DINGEL, WATER-POWERED CAR INVENTOR
Jul 5, '08 11:08 AM

I finally got to meet and interview Daniel Dingel in our radio program Magandang Morning with Julius & Tin-Tin on DZMM.

Dingel's critics from the Department of Science and Technology have branded him as a"loony" and dismissed his invention as a hoax. But I must say the guy made a lot of sense.

Baka naman naiinsecure lang sa kanya ang mga taga-DOST dahil ayaw ibigay ni Dingel sa kanila ang kanyang formula. He claims he invented the water-powered car which could possibly help solve the world's worsening oil crisis. It's better than the electric-powered car that the U.S. has developed because Dingel's car only uses water to fire up a vehicle, unlike an electric car which runs on hydrogen that still depends on electricity.

Dingel believes that the reason why government refuses to recognize his invention is because many government officials actually hold interests in the oil industry. Marami siguro ang kumikita sa kanila at nakikinabang sa biyaya ng mga oil company na naiinsecure naman sa mga teknolohiyang tulad nito.

Kaya ang nangyayari, dedma lang ang gobyerno kahit na mag-ingay pa ng mag-ingay si Dingel. Dingel told me that he presented this invention to a number of Presidents but only Erap expressed interest. 2 days before he was ousted as President, Erap was prepared to sign a memorandum that would recognize Dingel's technology to the benefit of our consumers. Obviously, hindi natuloy. Nasibak si Erap bago niya napirmahan ang dokumento. Kaya ito ayon kay Dingel ang isa sa mga pinakamalaking bagay na kanyang pinaghihinayangan sa kanyang buhay.

Dingel is 80-something already. He might not see the day when his invention is finally recognized by any government. Up to now, he says he is not interested in selling his technology to foreigners because he wants Filipinos to benefit from it first. Kaso, sa takbo ng gobyerno natin, mukhang dapat na nga yatang ibenta ni Dingel ang kanyang teknolohiya sa abroad. Pag nangyari ito baka sakaling kilalalanin na siya ng gobyerno natin.

Ang punto, sa mga panahon ngayon dapat ay bukas ang isipan ng lahat ng mamamayan sa lahat ng uri ng ideas na makakaresolba sa problema ng walang humpay na pagtaas ng gasolina. At hindi nakakatulong ang paninira at pang-iintriga ng ilan.Alisin na ang Crab Mentality na yan. Let us do away with egos and ambitions and open our eyes, minds and hearts in finding solutions to this worsening problem.

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see many YouTube videos on Daniel Dingel

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Switzerland

The Daniel Dingle foundation has been set up as a strategic alliance partnership between Ethos World GmbH Schweiz and Daniel Dingle, the Filipino Inventor, to commercially develop his inventions and to promote their benefits so that everyone in the world can gain from their unique properties.

The Dingle Foundation's mission is to raise money through the sale of Daniel's products so that he can use the funds to help improve the lives of his fellow Filipino people. The philanthropic alliance is a 'for profit' organisation but all of the profits will be used by Daniel to help the people in the Philippines.

Ethos specialises in unique and innovative products that few people even know exist. They have already helped tens of thousands of people, all around the world, to enjoy a far better quality of life. This strategic alliance has now been formed between Ethos and Daniel to promote the Dingle Foundation so that people can now benefit from Daniel's unique inventions which the foundation is currently developing and ready to start marketing them.

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see dinglefoundation.com but the contact email address: inquiries (at) dinglefoundation.com does not work.

there is information at an old danieldingel.com web site, also, which appears to no longer be maintained - the contact form there does not work.