Who's Wang Hongcheng? Why did his words become news? Why did his words attract the attention of scientific and technological circles in China?
This should start from 14 years ago.
14 years ago, Wang Hongcheng was an ordinary driver of Harbin Gong xx Automobile Company. He raised pigs and studied carpentry. 1984, become a scientific and technological inventor. At that time, China advocated knowledge and respected talents, and the whole country was eager to pursue scientific and technological knowledge. In the past, there were indeed many people who missed learning opportunities, had low academic qualifications and made achievements on their own. In this context, it is not surprising that Wang Hongcheng, with a low education, can become an inventor. Surprisingly, his invention was so great that many people who witnessed it didn't believe their eyes: as long as he added a few drops of mysterious liquid to a basin of clear water, it turned into burning oil, and he could start a car to fly on the road!
Hearing is empty, seeing is believing. Many people came to Wang Hongcheng to watch his scientific and technological performances, coming with questions and leaving with surprises. At first, he was Wang Hongcheng's colleague-car driver, and later he was a corporate cadre, journalist and scientist. Almost no one doubts the miracle of "changing water into oil", and some scientific research institutions even made an appraisal and affirmed it. For a time, people rushed to tell stories and spread miracles; Some news media called it "a great invention that occupies a prominent position in the history of scientific and technological inventions in China".
Why can water become oil? Sorry, the "secret" can't be revealed. Wang Hongcheng refused to reveal his mysterious formula and insisted on "black-box operation" because he was "afraid of the patented technology being stolen". Wang Hongcheng said that only when he met a senior official at a certain level would he be willing to disclose this great invention that could completely rid mankind of the energy crisis.
Many convinced entrepreneurs came to Harbin and asked to cooperate with Wang Hongcheng to develop the "water to oil" industry. More than 300 enterprises have contributed hundreds of millions of yuan to the development of Wang Hongcheng, and a military enterprise has set up a company specifically for this purpose. Hundreds of enterprises worship Wang Hong as a god of wealth and think that they have embraced a cash cow. Later, Harbin Institute of Technology * * Automobile Company was also involved. As their original work unit, they knew him very well, but they lost their minds in the face of the myth of "changing water into oil", and even used "oil"-"water-based fuel" to drive Gong's car in the street.
Finally, someone spoke. "How could this happen!" He Zuoxiu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, challenged Wang Hongcheng's modern myth and brought the scientific and technological achievements of "changing water into oil" to Beijing for scientific appraisal. As a famous modern physicist, He Zuoxiu dismissed this myth when it was first created. He believes that this myth will not have a market in today's prosperous science. To his complete surprise, the myth grew bigger and bigger, which made him feel the seriousness of the situation and did not hesitate to deign to challenge the myth maker.
Soon, Tsinghua University conducted a rigorous chemical analysis and combustion experiment on Wang Hongcheng's "water-based fuel", and the truth finally came out.
He Xiuxiu told the news media: Wang Hongcheng's deception is actually very simple. He used three quarters of water to add one quarter of gasoline, and then dropped a drop of additive, which became the so-called "water-based fuel". Water and oil are originally immiscible. In Wang Hongcheng, black soap as an auxiliary material and potassium permanganate as an additive are added and stirred, so that water and oil are mixed together due to a large number of soap bubbles, which seems to turn into black oil, and potassium permanganate is a strong oxidant, which promotes the combustion of gasoline.
Wang Hongcheng mixed gasoline and water in the ratio of 1∶3. After gasoline is burned, not only water can evaporate, but also the heat generated by water evaporation still exists. The deception used by Wang Hongcheng is just a gimmick. If you use his "water-based fuel", the result is that water will not become oil. On the contrary, the life of an automobile engine will be greatly shortened because it rusts in water. Harbin Gongx Automobile Company has suffered this loss. All buses using "water-based fuel" were scrapped in advance because of a large number of rusted engines, which caused heavy losses.
On April 8th, 1998, a group of authoritative scientists and jurists in China held a symposium on "Defending scientific dignity and getting rid of ignorance and superstition". An appeal was made at the meeting: scientific inventions are serious and cannot be false. When "knowledge economy" becomes the most fashionable vocabulary, scientific civilization should take law as a weapon to overcome the challenge of superstition and ignorance! At the same time, the meeting also called for strengthening popular science propaganda, striving to improve the scientific literacy of our nation, and making "scientific inventions" such as "changing water into oil" no longer have a market.