While major cost savings is critical to municipalities, Thermal Cycling Brakes make Thermal Balance Brakes a truly Green Company.
To manufacture a vehicle brake takes 1.25 pounds of iron ore for every pound of brake. U.S. brake manufacturers are mandated by the U.S. government -- do not incorporate more than 25% recycled scrap iron into the stainless steel. John Surma, chairman and CEO of the International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) U.S. division said, “It isn’t a secret among steel producers that higher concentrations of recycled scrap can weaken the material’s overall durability, and that’s why our regulations and the regulations of many countries across the world keep those concentrations low when it comes to areas where human life is potentially at risk.”
Sandro Milesi, COO of brake manufacturer Galfer, stated that adding too much recycled steel in brakes causes problems. “The majority of Chinese steel I have seen has upwards of 80-90 percent recycled steel, where our recycled steel concentration is very low. After two or three laps around the track, I’ve seen some Chinese rotors peel like a potato chip. As steel gets hot it is supposed to have the ability to flex but not bend to extremes, and that’s what is happening with a lot of these high-percentage recycled steel products. In some cases I’ve seen it even snap off, causing the rider to lose all braking control.”
School Bus, City Bus, and Truck brakes each weigh 95 pounds. It takes 119 pounds of iron ore to make one school bus or one city bus or one truck brake. Only 30 pounds can incorporate recycled iron ore, leaving 89 pounds of new iron ore. There are four brakes per vehicle. In this way, for each school bus, city bus or truck, it takes 356 pounds of new iron ore. Brakes used in police and sheriff vehicles as well as ambulances and mail trucks weigh 11 pounds, requiring 41.24 pounds of new iron ore per vehicle.
There are over 400,000 school buses, 400,000 city buses, over 400,000 police vehicles, over 400,000 ambulances, 300,000 dump trucks, 800,000 mail trucks, and 241,421,000 automobiles in the US.
School bus brakes can be changed as much as 3 times annually. Police and sheriff vehicle brakes changes vary, depending upon the route. They can be changed as often as 7-10,000 miles, or several times a year. After high speed chases, police/sheriff/
Harmonic Footprinting and Frank Masyada finally have a method of reducing iron ore consumption for brakes, Thermal Cycling Metal Reorganization.
Thermal Cycling Metal Reorganization
Each type of Metal has unique temperature ranges that can reorganize the metal’s molecules. When the Metal is put through these temperature ranges, dramatic improvement is realized in the Metal’s wear resistance and durability, increasing it in strength, toughness, corrosion resistance, stability, life expectancy, and performance.
Brand new metal brakes straight out of the box from the manufacturer have imperfections and flaws at the molecular level…even expensive performance brakes. Flaws and imperfections (such as tiny gaps between molecules) reduce the strength of the brake because gaps allow corrosion to set in. Realign the metal brake's molecules using Thermal Cycling. The tiny gaps between molecules are removed. The brake becomes denser and tighter, less prone to corrosion. The brake now exceeds the original design expectations, with life expectancy as much as 2-4 times longer.
When applied quickly to avoid accidents, Thermal Cycled brakes reduce swerve and skid because they are actually stronger than their original design. It requires less force to stop a vehicle with Thermal Cycled brakes. That is why the brake lasts as much as 2 to 4 times longer.
Let us look at the science behind Thermal Cycling. The police and sheriff officer hits the vehicle brake quickly to stop. The metal in the brake is suddenly placed under stress. Stress is the amount of pressure metal can actually absorb. Since even the most expensive mass manufactured performance brakes contain flaws and imperfections at the molecular level, stress that the brake can absorb is limited. The more flaws and imperfections in the brake, the more swerve or skid or tendency to fracture the brake may experience.
To better comprehend metallic stress, consider a paper clip. The metal in a paper clip as manufactured, is only so strong. Bending the metal back and forth, eventually the paper clip breaks because the molecules of the metal were only designed to absorb so much bending. Continual paper clip bending is more use than the metal was originally intended, and put the metal at the molecular level under stress.
If municipal vehicles (school buses, city buses, police and sheriff cars, dump trucks, ambulances, etc.) had Thermal Cycled brakes, and if Thermal Cycling only reduced brake replacement by just 1 time each year, Harmonic Footprinting, LLC could annually reduce consumption of iron ore in the U.S. by the following:
School Buses 400,000 vehicles
City Buses 400,000 vehicles
Police / Sheriff cars 400,000 vehicles
Ambulances 400,000 vehicles
Dump Trucks 300,000 vehicles
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140,300,000 lbs less iron ore needed
(70,150 Tons)
It takes 3.6 barrels of oil to create one ton of steel from iron ore. This would also mean Harmonic Footprinting could reduce oil consumption by 252,400 barrels.
It takes 100 lbs of limestone to make one ton of steel from iron ore. Harmonic Footprinting could reduce limestone production by 7,015,000 lbs. (3,507 Tons)
Reducing iron ore, oil and limestone consumption makes Harmonic Footprinting a truly Green Company.
