Thunderstorm Generator explained
The Thunderstorm Generator is Malcolm Bendall’s name for an engine retrofit with three parts. Here is what each does, what is claimed, and what was measured.
Plain definition
Three beats
1. Ionizer — ultraviolet (UV) light pretreats incoming air.
2. Bubbler (plasmoid generator) — air rises through a water column; collapsing bubbles form plasmoids.
3. Resonator — a chamber with nested contra-rotating (CTR) spheres; hot exhaust and the cold plasmoid stream spin opposite ways around a calm zero-plane.
Inventor claim
What inventors claim
Large fuel-efficiency gains, often framed as 90% or more, and near-zero carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbons (HC). Water (protium) is framed as the real fuel, with petrol as kindling.
These stay labeled inventor claims on this site. They are not guaranteed.
Measured
What was measured
The Embry-Riddle test — an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University master’s (M.S.) thesis (2026), with the road-test hardware supplied by the manufacturer, Plasmoid Power — found, under the conditions tested, a 9.67% lower fuel-use rate on a small generator and about 8.7% better fuel economy on a one-vehicle road test. In an idle test, carbon monoxide (CO) fell by about 34%, while carbon dioxide (CO₂), oxygen and hydrocarbons did not change significantly.
That is enough to take the effect seriously as measured. It does not prove 90% figures, near-zero exhaust, or water-as-fuel at scale.
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