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Branson warns that oil crunch is coming within five years

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Sir Richard Branson and fellow leading businessmen will warn ministers this week that the world is running out of oil and faces an oil crunch within five years.

The founder of the Virgin group, whose rail, airline and travel companies are sensitive to energy prices, will say that the ­coming crisis could be even more serious than the credit crunch.

"The next five years will see us face another crunch – the oil crunch. This time, we do have the chance to prepare. The challenge is to use that time well," Branson will say.

"Our message to government and businesses is clear: act," he says in a foreword to a new report on the crisis. "Don't let the oil crunch catch us out in the way that the credit crunch did."

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  • HomeOfficeMommy
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    • Thanks Current!

      I attended an event where Sir Richard shared his views on the coming oil crunch, as well as the more than $20 million he is holding for the person who solves this alternative fuel puzzle. I am rooting you all on. It is only when the raw milk is churned that cream rises to the top.

      Believe well!

      Adelaide Zindler
      http://www.HomeOfficeMommy.com
      Coming soon!

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • HomeOfficeMommy:

      Sir Richard also has another offer besides this one => $25,000,000.00 to the person who figures a way to reduce CO2. I can solve that plus the peak oil and fuel. But how do you reach him without giving your ideas to all of his staff first? My experience with having ideas is that once you tell it you no longer have any rights to it [especially since the other people want the money].

      Oh well. It feels good to be worth $45 million whether it's in my pocket or not.

    • 2 years ago
  • HomeOfficeMommy
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    • Gravity_Man:

      Hey Gravity_Man!

      Enough of that negative talk. I know your true heart remember? There is an innovative concept called non-disclosure. It is a statement that you can have noterized, sent by certified mail... Basically it allows you to get feedback on your idea while leaving a trail that traces where you sent it, who signed for it... Free legal advise is in order since this is not my field of expertise. Your local bar association can hook you up. You are worth it. So stop whining and pursue it. After spending all that energy creating solutions that can save us, do something with it before you go to your grave like most every other innovator in history: unfulfilled.

      Believe well!

      Adelaide Zindler
      http://www.HomeOfficeMommy.com
      Coming soon!

    • 2 years ago
  • Brotha_B
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    • Over all, the sources of energy we are "used to hogging" are being depleted. OKAY, we got it. The real rub is in getting these leading business people to listen to new ideas regarding energy. Many give warnings, few give altenatives. Even less, consider new approaches. So what if the person with the new way of looking at things is NOT a businessman? Sometimes it's the one thing we DON'T try, that ends up being the only thing that could've worked. How would one get Branson's attention?

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Brotha_B:

      This planet has gobs of "fossil" fuels left yet enuff to last another 350 years. They just recently found that Haiti is over top a tremendously humonguous oil deposit. There's no need to panic. The birth rate has been falling in many countries. We're set for life. Change you can believe in uhm, it was last seen going down a very deep well.

    • 2 years ago
  • Walks_in_Storms
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Well, perhaps they meant after wiping the floor with Russkies and Chinese I guess. They slipped and forgot themselves, went to shooting from the hip forgetting they're still this side of all that. But whatever, your calculator versus the tall blonde on TV still brainwashing people after 4 years now I think, she's drumming the numbers into everybody's soup dish.

      Doggie dish? You don't stand a chance man. Mwah Hah Hah Hah Hah The masses know what they want, the bell tolling tolls for thee. We're cannon fodder. She's down the court, she's up, point blond!

    • 2 years ago
  • HomeOfficeMommy
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  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Yes, I sometimes do Walk on Limbs. hahaha Sometimes I use a big spatula load of editorial license too. But, when you got it you got it. Imagine all 120,000,000 US households going off the main power grid two months from now. No Blackouts next summer?

      And who told you I solved 99% of all illnesses? You haven't been reading my online material on the sly, have you? Whew. You're fast Judo Man. Well, you were also honest. You said you would check me out.

      What WOULD happen to the health care industry? Well, there's an enormous number of treatments and operations they refuse to take Medicare payments on, calling them Elective and Cosmetic. All they need to do is declassify them and do them. They wouldn't lose as much money as you might think. They're CAPITALISTS! They will find a way.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      There's a big difference, Walks_in_Storms, between Energy and Health care. When you fix Energy you lower health care costs as well, so they don't need to make as much Net to make a nice Profit. Also, the doctors and nurses have also pocketed the same nice piece of change by not getting slammed monthly with high electric bills.

      But you think less tax dollars would reach the Fed and yeah, that's right, but then again the Fed needs a lot less revenue when it isn't paying for cleaning up Tennessee coal sludge dam breaks.

      It balances out. No one loses, everyone wins. Everyone not paying an electric bill can buy some of those new BMW's, or take on a nicer house with a higher mortgage payment. More people buy stuff from stores and showroom windows, which keeps more people employed. It all balances out man, except when the scales are balanced it leaves everybody enjoying a raised standard of living.

      Which gets the masses off the Rich folks backs.

    • 2 years ago
  • Walks_in_Storms
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      The picture above has been built => http://www.newpath4.com/gravitywheel7antireboundoffsetsystem.gif and It came close to continuous spin. I sent you a picture of it after being built. It is in an e-mail to the address you listed in your Current Profile. You can tell by looking at it why I called it my "Pelican" design. I have altered its shape to be more aggressive and now call it "the Scorpion" because it has a 2nd weight in its tail and strikes a 2nd blow each revolution.

      If you keep concentrating on the fact so many people have failed over the last 300 years they might overwhelm you. Brush them aside. We are doing new designs they never tried.

      The Scorpion is the one I am certain will work because each side strikes TWICE => its heavy squatty head drops down near the axle, yanking its tail (having a smaller sliding weight that strikes the second time)! So, you are getting two weights slamming into the direction of spin with only the weight of one scorpion!

      And that happens twice, one scorpion being on each side. So you have 4 strikes per 360 degrees, averaging 1 strike every 90 degrees. It's a shoe in. However, after you build it if you want to add magnets that's fine. I don't believe they are needed, but it's your dime. I suggest not getting bogged down with magnets til after you build one. 4 strikes per spin should work once you get the correct "head" weight.

      It's just a old distributor! Think positive and break the board already.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      I realize without a picture of the Scorpion you're likely having some difficulty stretching the Pelican arms down closer to the axle. Imagine the scorpion has a sleeve horizontal through its neck. That's where it pivots as it spins => pivots and drops. It will need a stop plate below the head, and the head needs to be close in to the axle.

      That way the two scorpion head weights opposite each other will have a ZERO effect on the device, being balanced against each other.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      http://www.newpath4.com/10242009PelicanWheel/PelicanWheelStill1.jpg

      This is my best rig Walks_in_Storms. The 1/2 inch diameter dowel rod is very light weight. The axle is a threaded rod, which allowed me to squeeze the dowel rod into perfect perpendicular! At the ends of the axle I put the axle through metal sleeves atop the two cradle supports. This setup proved to be extremely friction free. My previous models had the dowel as axle and the threaded rod as the upright arms but that put too much weight away from the axle. That Negative Leverage was probably what defeated the Pelican. I just took ill and couldn't continue otherwise I would've had it last year.

      I used double nuts with a lock washer sandwiched between to keep the nuts from tightening up on the sleeves as it turns. It is very close to achieving frictionless spinning. You are certain to succeed my friend, magnets or no magnets.

      edit: In hindsight the large washers should have been a lighter weight. EVERYTHING you add adds to the inertia that has to be overcome by the finished device => and also adds to the total weight pressing down on the axles. Keep all the weight down much as you can.

    • 2 years ago
  • Walks_in_Storms
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      I do not have such measurements. My work has been faith-based and relies on my general knowledge and reasoning ability. Part of my faith is that any time you have an energy stream a device can be inserted into that stream like a waterwheel. You might get a little power to turn a small generator and output a trickle of current, but yet at 24 hours a day a trickle current can keep a battery bank charged, and run the home off the bank, not directly off the device.

      If the power produced turns out to be a trickle, it's still a free trickle. If the home has too many electrical devices to be run by one gravity wheel you have two choices, either #1 make the wheel larger or #2 add more wheels.

      Any way you slice it it's a done deal. In my estimation the wheel I've told you about, once it is made correctly it will do more than just a trickle of output. Keep in mind also that the current produced by a gravity wheel will be closer to Pure Current, not the slop that comes from a remote power company.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      "tremendous angular and linear velocity" => no, not necessarily. It isn't like we're trying to turn a hydroelectric dam turbine. The angular and the linear -however much is produced- through the use of proper gear sizes will turn a properly-sized generator. What you may be doing is thinking how much horsepower it takes to run a backup generator.

      You might want to keep in mind a combustion engine brings its own great resistance into the overall equation. A lot of engine horsepower is consumed in overcoming combustion engine's 75% INEFFICIENCY. Seventy-five per cent of combustion engine power goes to turning its own self, so all a Gravity Wheel has to produce is @25%.

      With a Gravity Wheel all of the combustion engine resistance goes away. We're just turning the electrical generator part! I realize a generator still has reverse hysteresis that builds up as it runs. That will be found out in further builds. Fill yourself with faith. Be absorbed by it.

      Waterwheels worked, so will Gravity Wheels.
      Waterwheels worked, so will Gravity Wheels.
      Waterwheels worked, so will Gravity Wheels.

    • 2 years ago
  • Walks_in_Storms
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Saving money is a good objective so ask away. I was certain you knew about trickle current and battery banks, just as I am also certain your knowledge exceeds mine. In the interest of saving money I would suggest just making the "core wheel", see how you do with that. I wasted money buying threaded rods then found out I needed to switch the rods with the dowels. A waste I regret.

      Whenever I post something like hysteresis, I know you know what it is. I'm just writing it for the benefit of anyone reading our posts later. Perhaps even Mr. B. hisself!

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      DARN IT. I knew I forgot something. I was supposed to make sure you had been through a baptismal pool before I asked you for help! RATS. Triple Rats. Lots and lots of Rats. Where's my flogging stick? hehehehe

    • 2 years ago
  • Walks_in_Storms
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  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Oh no, I didn't mean to threaten you with flogging. You're my new friend. I meant sitting out in the highway flogging myself for not making sure you were oh, you know. Hmm, I've never thought of threatening someone with rats before. Maybe a pickup line => Hey, baby, how'd ya like some rat stew? or, Hey baby, want a rat fur, top o' the line?

      I dunno Storm, I don't think rats would be good for anything. It's funny you mention baptism being scary. Actually mine was. I drowned when I was 12, went down the third time. I felt the sun warming my chest and someone had dragged me outta the pool. So when I was being baptized the brother was pushing me trying to get my feet to raise off the pool bottom so we had kind of a fight. It was an automatic response. No one had told me my feet had to leave the ground. Funny now thinking about it.

      About the wheels, yes, I once believed all that who shot John stuff about inventing a better mousetrap and the world would beat a path to your door. Horatio Alger too, a great story but now recognized as something doesn't happen unless someone holding the puppet strings allows it to happen. If I had one operating and only powering my heatpump my electric bill would be reduced by 2/3'rds. They installed new cooling coils after the last one poisoned me with freon leaks for 5 months. It isn't matched with heatpump plus I'm rather certain they wired it wrong.

      It's tearing my disability check all into little pieces here. When people talk about Al Gore's house having such a large carbon footprint I imagine his is LESS than my apartment, because the blower up here plus the pump fan down there run nonstop. I imagine all the apartments in Roanoke Virginia aren't being maintained any better than mine. The apartment managements are SAVING MONEY not paying trained HVAC people to maintain the systems, just using jackleg maintenance staff to do it on the cheap. I called the people and e-mailed 4 different HVAC companies none wanted to answer my questions but finally the lady at TRANE told me the coils have to be MATCHED with the heat pump.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Well, you're looking at the one guy who has outworked you and has out-persisted you right here. I was strangled in the womb with cigarette smoke and got my share of alcohol too. But worse than that I inherited the thyroid gland suitable for the men in Mom's family. It produced hormones for their body chemistry. So when I hit 15 I began to not have enough energy to run my body.

      At 20 I was an old man inside, but everyone thought I was a young man, so a lot of people who expected a young man's energy and hard work got real disappointed. Nor did my body heal very well after accidents, and due to the brain fog I was in most my life from having steady rejected thyroid hormones being pumped into me I had some awesome accidents.

      You'll have to settle for being #2 in the effort department. But resolve yourself it took a heckuva effort to beat you. I've died 3 times and came back from brain death a fourth. I guess the saying is true, there's always somebody worse off, or better, or richer, or poorer... although I would be hard pressed to think of anyone being poorer than to have inherited a hyperactive thyroid that blood poisoned them 24-7.

      For 40 years I have woke up after sleep just as wasted as I was when the lights went out. I know who butters my toast.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      I'll concede your domination of the field for the first half of the century and I'll take the last half. There's plenty of century to go around. And at the moment I think both of us will have to take a seat on the back row to Al Gore for being INSULTED.

    • 2 years ago
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      The overall intent seems to be to SQUASH Horatio Alger on their dune buggy windshield. There's a hatred of people of natural intellect and insight unless we have gone through their "normal channels" can one be accepted, wear a lab coat, have some tenure in one of their accepted mediums. You see, you were supposed to go take 4 years in radiation classes, and be 14 instead of 74.

      In my last editorial I showed them how to alter the entire nation's hospital mindset away from treating the sick at the end of their stick to doing something truly INNOVATIVE => whenever a patient is in the hospital for one thing, before they are released give them a complimentary waist reduction surgery. It would take 30 minutes to scalpel off 10-15 pounds. If the object is to return people to the field of battle then by God do your damn job.

      And the newspaper that claims to run editorials that benefits the Public refused to print that idea? hahahahahahahahaha Gimme a break no, wait, gimme two more flogging sticks for the freeway.

      Say, you said you like the outdoors and the wife likes the beds eh? Well, why not build an invisible wall in the bedroom? All you have to do is put videocameras in the outside wall transmitting to screens on the inside wall back behind them. Be just like being buck naked out in the yard. You can commune with nature 24 hours a day and nature can't see in, so the deer and the birds, and the rabbits, all come up close to the house, and of course also your next meals => the possums and the rats!

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Yeah, I've noticed the same thing you noticed. What they do is they love to take credit for our ideas see? So what they do is they stick our ideas on a back shelf, wait for us to move onto other fields to graze then they plant our seed that grows their name & their reputation, so they grow into being tall corn and we stay poor. Oh yeah, I've been having that happen to me for over 20 years now.

      Apparently they keep a running tally (database) of people's blogged ideas, or ideas submitted to the Patent Office, plus any ideas they glean from the Copyrights, and then they assign Dates to them to piecemeal out to the starving masses a little at a time. And the masses groveling around for their next meal shout Hosannah thank ya Mastuh over & over like it's the microwave oven invented again.

      My very best ideas I kept to myself although truth be told I have released enough already to fix this planet several times over. Lightning power electrical system, Aether Energy from the oceans, Air+steam car engine, Millenial Dawn Over-Unity engine. They just sit on em like hen's eggs while the Coal, Oil and Natural Gas lady on TV keeps luring the ignorant over the cliff to their deaths oops into her web by promising jobs, jobs & more jobs to keep everybody working, working, working, scared sh*tless people might have time to actually LIVE THEIR LIVES.

      It's abuse of the public trust and really, abuse of children and their Moms to maintain a system that guarantees those who cannot work or do not have your health- have to do without, have to live in homeless shelters, have to beg a church for prescription drug money even when they aren't a believing person. Insulting the human psyche to the utmost extremes on every financial level they can find.

      It has all been solved, hard telling since how long ago. One inventor after another comes forward and invents new stuff for them to have, until they have become stuff addicts, a whore system that now chooses to not release free energy systems, the energy of the cosmos. Our generation my new friend are the Damned of all Time.

    • 2 years ago
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  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      I've had to have a similar mindset all my life. Since I wasn't getting cell energy from my thyroid I learned to "make myself angry" to summon up adrenaline for the energy. It's a poor substitute, doesn't give you the steady energy you need. But after I fixed the car engine mid-2003 I had so many people doing flying drop kicks into my face... telling me why it couldn't work. So the more they did that the deeper I looked into the engine and after 6 months I realized I had much more than just an engine.

      It generates its own "fuel", compressed air from replacing the shock absorbers and springs with air compressors. Feeding a trickle of water through a generator-heated conduit is not a difficult task either. Then they started in on the three thermodynamic laws. They were ignoring the hot steam and cold air canceled each other out. And yet they were right too because compressors do get hot, so then I routed the cold water condensate from the engine cylinders down around the compressors to #1 cool the compressors at the same time #2 pre-heating the water to be steam again, which also #3 reduced the amount of generator output to re-steam the H2O.

      When people make me mad -or challenge my good ideas when I know they're right- they only make me stronger. The car engine and also Millenial Dawn both defeat Entropy and both are outside the "Three Laws of Thermodynamics" restrictions. Those laws only apply to THERMO systems that generate excess heat, which comes from and shows the degree of inefficiency.

      My engines are not inefficient. There is no excess heat produced [that isn't used]. That's why my car engine is a climate engine. The climate never stops, and my engines will run so long you'll think they don't ever stop either. In early 2008I realized it needed to be a turbine core, like a turbocharger. It only gets better after that. Like Gravity Wheels, the designs of this engine also, just watching them run makes ya glad to be alive from their beauty.

      Everybody can own a fine racehorse stallion. Anyway, I went out and purchased some lightweight wood today to start on my next Gravity Wheel. I'm aiming to have it done on April 15. If you want to aim for that date also come on in the water, off that river bank.But, I realize you have plenty else to do. This is my battle. I intend to win.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      I've got a new design for a windmill Walks-in-Storms that I imagine doesn't recognize the Betz limits. hahaha You do tickle me with all your facts, rules and limitations people have put on existing systems. They don't apply to mine.

      There's a world filled with books and they're filled with rules regarding escape velocity blah blah and so on more blah... but I have two engine designs that will lift people aloft and gently leave the earth's atmosphere into Space. None of those books apply their limitations to my new systems.

      With my systems, in a lightweight craft not carrying any 10,000 pounds of fuel, Old people can go into Space. Everyone and the Sick can go into Space. Travel to the Moon and Mars, every day. Hmm, you're old people. hehehe Wanna be the first? Well, I have no money so the puppet string pullers will have to decide to keep pulling the strings against people and for them if anything great is to happen.

    • 2 years ago
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Well, no, I wouldn't be sending it to you. If I send it to you then I'd hafta kill ya, and I've got me a strong suspicion that would require a lot of effort on my part. Just a guess. I'll say this though, that people who look for the easy answers miss the gravy. As in many of my engines they overlook some small detail, and that's what separates the men from the Betz's.

      My desire is to see my car engine running first. Wind is not high on my list. Even maxxed out wind is a poor energy source. They blotch up the landscape too much anyway. But I've had 6+ years of people quoting why my engines wouldn't work based on rules written for lesser engines. You know, every so often somebody may actually have to WRITE SOME NEW BOOKS.

    • 2 years ago
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    • P.S. On Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 I saw the first TV advertisement for the all electric
      Nissan Leaf due out this year. BMW also has an all electric car due out by December. It's a full sized BMW car too, not the mini cooper design we were led to believe because they were test leasing an all electric mini since Nov.2008. Those of you who keep on about internal combustion engines likely never saw the 1997 EV1 race the 3 gas powered cars at the Bonneville salt flats proving ground. It shot past them so fast with such blazing acceleration that all you could see was a blur. Tesla invented the induction motor and held the patent for it as far back as 1900. It's the world Big Oil Monopoly that has so dominated the auto industries for the past 110 years which is the reason why we even have petrol/diesel gas stations around at all anymore. Because the truth is, the petrol based internal combustion engine is a smelly, filthy, polluting, inferior piece of obsolete low tech that was out of date 25 years after the first Daimler Benz horseless carriage. So if you want to continue facing backwards, that's your business. But the more you continue looking into the past, the more you will travel into the past. The future, and any progress you bring into it, is 180 degrees in the opposite direction you're facing.

    • 2 years ago
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Papp died two weeks after I had my near-fatal on March 27 '89. I see where his engine is an extremely volatile source of instant explosion. People have died watching it run. Do you actually entertain the idea people would ride behind such a powerful and unstable process that has the power to peel the metal engine into a banana as the article stated?

      I'm not saying it doesn't work because obviously it does, but the REAL WORK would come in trying to get the public to buy it. The motoring public is already riding around on a 15 gallon liquid powder keg. If they had a choice they would switch in a heartbeat to electric engines, forget gasoline, diesel, noble gases AND Methane/natural gas.

      That's why no one in the halls of Science will mention me or my canned tornado engine because they know ONLY MY ENGINE IS 100% SAFE. They know if the general public became aware of my enginewow.htm system they wouldn't buy any other engine. That my friend represents the end of their funding hayride at taxpayer expense.

      When air is compressed to 4,361 psi it becomes a liquid. My system uses the kinetic motions of a moving vehicle to compress the air over & over [by replacing shocks & springs with air compressors]. My engine system (not just an "engine" but a complete turnkey system) therefore MAKES ITS OWN FUEL driving down de boulevard.

      Can't do that with Papp's engine.
      Can't do that with Methane.
      Just one engine => MINE.

      The secret to my engine developing mega horsepower is this. Take a piston-cylinder and inject a drop of liquid air. The air expands but it has a rather soft impact on the piston head. The reason for that is the cylinder has air in it. That air acts as a buffer. Now do it again but before the air inject steam. When the supercold liquid air drop is introduced to the steam the H2O in the steam collapses in instantaneous condensation which causes a VACUUM. Therefore the power in the air encounters no buffer and slams the piston head like a 500 pound mallet.

      My engine is a dual catalyst engine. Steam is a catalyst to the air and the air is a catalyst to the steam. hahahahahaha Completely Safe to the public, the only exploding going on stays "canned" inside the engine where it belongs, no more of this riding around on top of a fuel tank every again.

      The scientific community knows I've aced the car engine to have so much horsepower it can easily pull loaded tractor-trailers walking up a mountain loaded with 48,000 pounds of freight... using just air and water. Unfortunately, selling a safe engine has proven to be just as difficult as selling a grenade engine.

      Papp's engine ran at 140 degrees eh? Mine is room temperature. Engine oil never gets broken down by heat, which means ya don't use engine oil like we use today. Vegetable oil would do just fine, plus never get dirty since it's a closed system. Natural Oil lasts many decades then. Oil then can be what is grown, no need for drilling. With my engine Walks In Storms there is no "Peak Oil".

      Since the metal parts are not subjected to excess heat the metal expansion contraction is minimal, meaning it can be honed to tighter tolerances which also adds horsepower. hehehe But, enginewow would run with minimal wear & tear too, likely lasting 100 years before showing any wear. It has all cylinders firing at the same time so the cylinders can be SMALLER.

      It's a form of desktop fusion => a Fusion of Physics laws not atoms. Safe power no wastes. No one wants to admit that Riley cracked the egg, that's all. Welp, let the games continue then.

    • 2 years ago
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Why no, just money, a new body and people to build it (the new gravity wheel). My previous wheel is just fine too but the latest one has an edge on it. I can't build my engines. The last time I built a gravity wheel it seems the concentration causes the dormant Lyme's bacteria to come back at me. I can't take it, so I had to stop.

      How's your health? Have you ever considered building gravity wheels? My last design is so simple I imagine you could have it running in less than a week. You seem to be very capable.

      When the Lyme's come at me they really mess me around. I've tried to get somebody to work with me for months now but everybody backs up like I've put a big black obelisk in their face.

      But really, the military should do enginewow. But, if they just plain don't want to hmm, it would take some doing but a lot of stock parts might be used too. There are two ways to make the car engine. You can make it with two transmissions one on either side. One side takes power to the front axle, for Low and Reverse and 2nd gear also. Then the engine shifts to the right for Highway (low torque to the rear axle). That's when it cranks out 65 mph and up.

      But the easiest way forget all that gear and transmission stuff just have the engine spin a heavy-duty generator and put an electric motor on each wheel.

      Non stop electric cars that way.

    • 2 years ago
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Gravity is more than just Gravity. All planets (moons, all matter) attracts energy, and energy has Mass. The mass of energy is very small but when a large body attracts so much of it the accumulated mass -while still invisible- that's Gravity that holds us in place. And yet it is still small enough we can move around. If we jump without a parachute we die. Gravity is much more than just the planet pulling us down => we are enveloped and live inside an invisible pillow force that comes from everywhere. I have been calling it by a word I found many others using over on the Energetics Forum => Aether Energy.

      Aether pushes down on us but it also stabilizes us side-to-side as if we are always surrounded by a cushy flexible web, so that way we have what we call a "life". If our eyes were able to see the spectrum of energy we would all be blind, unable to see anything else. Aether Energy obeys the same law of lightning and electricity => it always seeks the ground.

      The closer this cosmic energy gets to the body attracting it the denser it becomes, so down here on the ground it is at full concentration. We go higher in altitude "gravity" becomes less.

      My remaining unable to work was the direct result of local doctors refusing to do their job. After my ankle and feet were crushed in 1989 within a year my doctor found my thyroid had a rare problem... so they KNEW I was unable to diet the extra weight off but they refused to help me with weight reduction surgery. Even further they failed to grasp that my testosterone was in a "locked" condition so my feet muscles following the crushing then also + the surgery, the muscle did not grow back in, so the bones in my feet got dried out and scrubbed against each other any move I made. That led directly into my getting all the "sedentary diseases", gout, athero, arterio. I've had anginas, heart attacks, seizures and two complete heart stoppages, plus once I was plunged into temporary brain death. By then the doctors had a real revelation that they were looking like failures for not getting me back to work so they began building a counter malpractice argument to hammer me with in court (if I ever found a lawyer) their argument being that all my problems were caused by my being bipolar. Of course bipolar has nothing to do at all with HYPOCHONDRIA, so my doctors managed to drag me behind their pickup truck bumper for several decades hoping to hell Woodrow Riley would die and they would be done with me. Since I did die several times they actually did off me but several people they think don't exist decided to keep breathing life back into my body.

      Without any doctoring I've defeated several cancers, one in 2006 that was awesome, tried to kill off every cell in my entire right side and arm. I've dealt with MRSA twice and stopped it with my "self-hyperbarics" breathing techniques that raised blood oxygen and suped up my dysfunctional Immune System. But the most persistent of all has been the Lyme's Borelli spirocheates. Last year I tried my hand building several real models of my Gravity Wheels but I had to stop. It seemed like the concentration of building somehow activated them to come out of dormancy and hit me, swelling the nervous system trunk line in my upper vertebrae.

      I'm assuming your situation has differed from mine. At 74 you are very likely to be in better physical condition than I am, although I have made some very good inroads on the road back. I don't do all those pullups but when I need to do something that requires strength I move very fast, and the speed plus my 275 bodyweight gives me all I need. I once grabbed a 300 lb. truck fifth wheel and stood it up on its side so fast the grease on its side didn't slip. I stood it on its edge on the back 2 inch wide frame of a bobtail truck so a forklift could get it from the dock. It was nearly effortless. So I'm not exactly chopped liver. hahahaha The heart infarction I had in early 2008 tickled me so bad I had to laugh out loud. My resting pulse now is 58, also my age.

      I have however resigned myself to not tempt the Lyme's again.

      So if you have a hankering to help the deprived children of this world by getting them "free" electric service I would greatly welcome your being a partner in this great work. I have 6 different designs of the G-W's. My 1st one from March 2008 is here => http://tinyurl.com/GravityWheelOne but the last two are the best. Perhaps you could knock one out before it comes warm weather and so much yard work needing done. They really aren't all that much to do. Each one in its own right is a delight to see.

      The Pelican design didn't quite make it so I made it more aggressive => the Scorpion design. From the Scorpion I got my last one that will use your special auto mechanic knowledge. I would say easily 1-2 months we could have a Gravity spinning generator, get your home completely on gravity power if you want. Of my other two designs, one is a "dual opposed pendulum" & the one before it whew uses so many centrifugal tricks I didn't name it.

      With your machining knowledge I imagine you could blow through all of em. Just in case they don't sit up & bark I have a number of tricks I haven't even added yet.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Gravity_Man:

      Please don't take this personaly as derogatorily intended, but at first impression I suspected you might be missing a few of your marbles. On closer focus, I see it's because your brain may be wired differently, that you're closer to genius than pathology. So if you are the next Tesla, then the world can sure use your talent and invention. So long as it's not based in obsession, constancy of purpose is the key to success for any practical endeavor. Good luck, hombre.

    • 2 years ago
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    • PressCore:

      No personal taken. I've had my marbles rattled plenty times. I could never replace Tesla but I have seen how to fix his anti-gravity flying transport system. Perhaps doing the wheel will prove to be a stepping stone, and many today who have resigned themselves to never traveling in Space will be surprised.

      I figure about 5-6 hours to reach the Moon, without using propulsion rockets, without lifting heavy fuel. NASA designed a lightweight spacecraft two years ago that cosmic radiation does not penetrate the craft. Didn't know that eh? They found out that making a thin double wall filled with foam stops the radiation. All they need is the engine. Unless of course they also figured it out.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • PressCore:

      I've only taken one IQ test in my life. It was in 2002, an online test. It was an extreme test in my opinion so when they ranked me they said I was a "Philosopher-Thinker" who in their opinion should be running a world corporation. Being bipolar with a serious serious thyroid malfunction got in the way of that, as well my having a 245/140+ blood pressure from 2003 into 2006. I've been too occupied with health issues off of those issues to put much energy into anything so grandiose as world corporate CEO.

      But the climate hasn't been right even if I had. The world today has a glut of CEO's, as some people used to say => Too many chiefs not enough taxpayers oops, Indians. So the chiefs, whoever they are, have worked hard to prevent my engines from seeing the light of day, and everybody has suffered for it.

      Their decision to put the calendar in stocks and prevent the natural progression to take place for the betterment of humanity well, looks like that's what we're stuck with. They control the vertical and they control the horizontal and they have tuned us out. All they hear is the siren song of the money.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • PressCore:

      "They" chose to stall my car engine since 2003 so that the expensive $$$ ones they wanted to cross the Finish Line would do so. The "race" has been fixed from the starting pistol. Truth is, "my engine" is the original product of Dr. Abraham Hertzberg, accomplished aeronautics and aerospace engineer who helped design the Space Shuttle system.

      He retired and began teaching at Washington University I believe it was. It was there he had the students to build the prototype under his direction. Most of our "great inventors" have had help. Edison had a whole company of help otherwise he would've been me and life today would be way behind.

      Dr. Hertzberg chose to use compressed nitrogen. He later admitted that choice was a mistake, after the media blasted his engine. At first (1997, archived) they praised it all over ABC News, but then they found out it barely reached 30 miles per hour. A few months after he passed away in 2003 I came across his engine. He had incorporated a device used in locomotives called an "economizer".

      Basically all that is is a heavy duty radiator, then the nitrogen was further decompressed by sending it through a front radiator also heavy duty. With all that decompression he castrated his own engine. All I did was see how to fix HIS engine system. But since I lacked his help it was just me and the Internet. I lacked credentials of his level to be allowed to speak... so Detroit continues turning out the engines they want to win.

      My engine solution is NOT fuelless. It combines high pressure cold air, a liquid at 4,361 psi, with a low pressure front (steam), and the explosion should be quite awesome WHICH MEANS very little compressed air has to be produced from the air compressors. Pistons can be smaller, a reduction in engine weight, minus the entire exhaust system, a reduction in engine weight, minus a cooling system, more reduction in engine weight.

      It's a canned tornado.

      It's a climate engine that solves our climate instability problems?

      Recyclable "fuel" used indefinitely solves the world monetary crisis? Probably. But in solving the money crisis of the masses the money crisis shifts into the pockets of the controllers, a very hot potato they want no part of. So there ya go. Nixo el engine o. I'll step aside and concede the Rich have won and move on to make the gravity wheels.

    • 2 years ago
  • Walks_in_Storms
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Yep. Uhm, the designs I have don't need magnets. After you build one and "learn the ropes" you will gain confidence that heavy magnets aren't needed for your own self. If you still want to go further and add magnets that will be your call.

      You will find, I believe, that adding weight works as much against the device as for it. That's the "grab" of a gravity wheel, that every time you add something the whole equation changes. You may go mad, or worse yet, become OBSESSED.

      Magnets also wear out. My objective in avoiding magnets is to make a steady power supply that runs for years, low maintenance. It's just something for you to work through as you decide you want to do.

    • 2 years ago
  • Wetdog
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    • Any car can be easily converted to run on methane at the flip of a switch. It costs about 1/2 to run a vehicle on methane.

      Using fossil methane(natural gas) produces about 1/3 the CO2 of petroleum. Using biomethane(biogas) adds no new CO2 to the atmosphere. Both produce almost zero polluting emissions. And they can be mixed in any proportion with no loss in performance----they are exactly the same stuff, CH4. Mixing just 6% biomethane with fossil natural gas will produce greenhouse effect neutral emissions---any mixture over 6% will produce a negative greenhouse warming effect on the atmosphere.

      We have an abundance of natural gas available----more than coal, because we don't have to strip mine to get it out of the ground. It is cheap---can do anything we need done, and we can make it cheaply and easily from any kind of organic material, even sewage and landfills, so it is renewable and sustainable---we have plenty of sewage and landfills.

      We don't need to worry about Peak Oil---it is the best thing that could happen, the air will be cleaner, we won't have strip mines, and it will cost a lot less to drive our vehicles.

    • 2 years ago
  • JeremyRobert
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    • JeremyRobert:

      Wetdog always does a great presentation. The unfortunate reality is though that when you build a bridge you become enslaved to the bridge you have just built. That's why we stay on crude oil. Bridges are massive commitments to the Bridge Infrastructure like a whole new delivery system and fuel pumps, and the car's designed for the pump hose fittings and so on and so on.

      Build Wetdog's bridge you're stuck with it. Any "even more environmentally responsible technologies" would be stuffed in a basket with baby Moses and go over the falls.

      This is not some fluid dynamics dream here where one might could expect a highly intelligent homo superior humankind to transition easily from one technology to a better technology. Technology infrastructures damn us to keep using them, not transitioning smoothly on to the next and the next technology.

      Infrastructure becomes a dam that prevents any more flow.

      The next choice of energy has to be more than bridge.

    • 2 years ago
  • Walks_in_Storms
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      $8 billion dollars would make a dandy methane extraction electricity in Georgia [North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland chicken farms, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota beef cattle ranches]. Oh heck, everywhere there's people.

    • 2 years ago
  • Walks_in_Storms
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      #1, wouldn't take half and #2, the military would foot the costs anyway. Apparently they haven't grasped the idea of a supply train-less Army. The taxpayers have already paid for my engine.

      Once we get a car that makes its own combination "fuel" then everybody's [reduced] paychecks goes toward holding onto their homes, avoiding foreclosure. As for home electricity, last week I made a new gravity wheel that's as good as Dan Akroyd and John Belushi sliding their big Plymouth into mall plate glass windows.

      Take care of people's two big Energy needs ~Quality of Life~ they keep their homes and monies go to fixing schools. Just two of my engines fixes everything... because when a home has its OWN ON-SITE POWER SUPPLY home values go back to where they were two years ago.

      Time Travel my friend. You gotta love it!

    • 2 years ago
  • Wetdog
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    • JeremyRobert:

      jeremyrobert---CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but it is not the only greenhouse gas. Methane is also a greenhouse gas. It also absorbs infrared radiation from the sun which is converted into heat in the atmosphere.

      Carbon is not the problem, the excess heat build up in the atmosphere is the problem, the "greenhouse effect".

      Methane (CH4) is produced naturally by the decomposition of organic matter. If we capture methane that would have ordinarily escaped into the atmosphere anyway(for instance, treating sewage, or tapping landfills---and then burn it as a fuel, we convert methane to CO2. Since methane has 17 times the infrared capture capacity of CO2, just a 6% mixture of biomethane with fossil methane(natural gas) will balance out the heat capture properties of the resulting CO2. The net heating effect on the atmosphere will be neutral. Anything over a 6% mixture will result in greenhouse negative effect on the atmosphere. Over a 6% mixture, and we actually cool the atmosphere compared to doing nothing.

      This is the only means we have of actually reversing the greenhouse gas effect of warming the atmosphere.


      Methane is also the cheapest direct source of energy we have according to the US Energy Information Agency. Coal is cheaper to purchase, but can't be used directly, it has to be converted to electricity to be used by consumers. "Cheap Coal" does not mean "Cheap Energy", to consumers, only to the profit margins of the utilities selling electricity to consumers. When comparing the energy cost of coal to methane for consumers, coal costs more than twice as much as methane----not even counting environmental damage done by using coal.

    • 2 years ago
  • HomeOfficeMommy
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    • That's awesome walks in storms, you should friend gravity_man, he's on to similar ideas. There is so much in the way of these inventions out there where the inventor disappears as well as his designs. Sometimes, they are taken, given new names and work for the government and sometimes the story isn't so nice. I saw a guy late at night on BBC talk about batteries made from silicon that recharge constantly while being used and never wear out. Wrote his name and information down, called the network, googled, done everything and no trace of him.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • Monkey_Films
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    • Monkey_Films:

      True, but the reason they're "under the gun" needing so many batteries in the first place is from not wanting to build my engine that barely needs a battery, The world is in love with being under the gun. Engines like mine that produce real-time power don't need storage capability. But people are trained worse than Pavlov's dog to see only batteries. Anyway, I try to keep up with em. It's a full-time job keeping up with their struggles to avoid my engines.

      The super fast graphene transistors will get used in new DARPA weapons I guess. I can't see it reaching the {ugh} normal people like us. You were talking earlier about inventors disappearing. Obviously they came up with something new for me => keep ya stuffed so far behind Rosa Parks ya can't afford to file -and keep- patents.

      That's okay though because as long as they insist on keeping me poor I can insist on keeping my two anti-gravity engines to myself too. This is a two-way street if that's the way it has to be. Branson doesn't want anybody having flying cars that can fly to the Moon reaching the {ugh} normal people anyway.

      He wants cattle cars so he can charge for each & every space flight trip.

      For anyone wanting to know that my engines defeat both Entropy and also the "Three Laws of Thermodynamics" the information is on this web page => http://www.newpath4.com/1100russianwomensteamingangryatmen.htm#_Weather_Climate_...

      A good Rat Race is a terrible thing to waste it seems. Trusting people to still run in the gerbil wheel after you feed them what they want takes a lotta FAITH. There's no need to muster up faith when everybody keeps walking voluntarily through the cattle chute day after day just like you've trained them to do.

    • 2 years ago
  • Walks_in_Storms
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Thanks for the many warnings. They have so far decided to keep their distance. It seems they don't like the idea of an extremely visible Christian martyr at the present time. I'm glad you enjoyed the page! In 2002 and 2003 I had a rather important insight that helped me design engines. I had learned about writing programming flowcharts back in the 80's... so my engines run like an incorrectly-written subroutine that gets stuck in a "nonstop repeating loop".

      Bad for software but great for an engine.

    • 2 years ago
  • Walks_in_Storms
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      I've heard good things about the vertical axis designs. You might want to check the wind speed around the N and S corners/sides of your house as the house makes the wind go around. I have several of my own designs for wind devices but in this apartment I have nowhere to build any of them... and my disability check doesn't go that far anyway.

      I noticed your posts had made a hard turn down Math Alley. hahahaha

      My discovery I call Imitation Energy was prompted by a flowchart flaw applied to engine design. So you and me must be related => you change people's designs and I invent across everybody's platforms. hehehehe I mash the peanut butter with chocolate.

      Thank for all the kind words & encouragement. Ditto back at ya Granddaddy.

    • 2 years ago
  • HomeOfficeMommy
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    • While we are in a crisis as all are talking about. But I'm wondering how we are preparing our children to win in 2010? So much so that I've written a book about it and hoping you can help me decide the best title. Which of these would you want to read first? Keep those posts coming by the way! :)

      _30 Day Secret to a Loving Home Office
      _30 Day Secret to a Global Home Office
      _30 Day Secret to a Winning Home Office
      _30 Days to Ultimate Home Office Success

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • HomeOfficeMommy:

      I have a new home study program for my kids for 2010 also. It' is called, "How to get Ethiopians to pick coffee for 2 cents a kilo and sell it to Americans for $25 like Starbucks without leaving the comfort of your bunker." By 2011, I hope to have them trained to fire and field strip 4 different kinds of weapons. And I am working on a cook book called "30 Days to the gourmet preparation of rodents."

      Is that, "as (we) all are talking about?" No that can't be right. How about.... forget it, I can't make any sense out of that opening sentence; but the really scary thing is, I think I know what you were trying to say. Hope you are not home schooling in grammar. Ta ta for now.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • The "White Knight" needs to lead this preparation by rapidly moving his own transportation services to non-petrol based technology. The railroads are one area I think should be focused on. The engine technology is ever more efficient. Another benefit railroads could yield is from the amount of land that the rail companies own alongside tracks. I think this land could be well used for both wind and solar energy generation. Why not have more electric trains with constant power sources along the track? The best place for Branson to take initiative is battery technology like the article mentioned. I bet he could make his entire fleet of companies self sufficient in the next 5 years with a tolerable investment. Well, maybe not the space ships :P

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Jared_Hildebrandt:

      The name of the game, Jared_H is this. The industrialists can give us anything that looks like Progress without giving us Real Progress. It's a tough row to hoe but they do dance the dance very well. They haven't quite figured out how to give themselves flying cars (spaceship technology) without giving it to everybody (herein referred to as us) in a smaller version.

      Which technically, making the smaller version is in fact much easier because the smaller family-size spaceship has less Gravity pulling it down. They'll grudgingly give us faster trains but they'll be to keep us from getting flying cars that don't use fuel.

      Think Slo-Mo and you're a great industrialist. Piecemeal out to others what you already have in abundance is ze name of ze game.

    • 2 years ago
  • Monkey_Films
  • Walks_in_Storms
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      It's very important we keep using crude oil, utmost importance as it ig giving the kid inventors time to grow up a little and save the world. They have lots of experience to draw on since they were recently reincarnated. What they're stalling for is time enough to finish the electric cars in time for the solar fireworks => http://current.com/items/92108827_solar-flares-set-to-wreak-havoc-on-gps-signals...

      Thereby skipping over my air+steam canned tornado engine that uses no fuel whatsoever you see, there is rhyme to all these maneuverings after all. You just have to put the light on the fingernails to see the blood of the victims underneath, that's us oops I mean that's all.

    • 2 years ago
  • JohnA
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    • Oil crunch coming within five years? Your kidding me! It can't be true! What a sage, what insight, how could he have seen this! Yeah Richard, we know....

    • 2 years ago
  • JeremyRobert
  • Gravity_Man
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    • Walks_in_Storms:

      Hey walks...no problem on the link. I am typically not so rude, just was pressed for time at that moment. Natural gas reserves in the U.S.A are fairly large plus they are perfecting new extraction techniques that some are saying will triple our projected reserves (100 years worth). Medford N.J. in the 80's-90's ran their municipal vehicles on natural gas they worked great and the conversion was fairly simple. In the late 90's gas became so cheap ...when it came time to replace vehicles it did not make sense to keep the program going. I think natural gas vehicles makes good sense as a bridge / segway till electric or whatever infrastructure can be developed. What would it take to develop conversion kits and install tanks at our local gas stations? Jobs could be created. I am coming from the line of thinking to just in general reduce our dependence on foreign oil while we are perfecting the least detrimental energy source (if that is possible)

    • 2 years ago
  • JeremyRobert
  • Walks_in_Storms
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    • to further add I have a close friend who is an environmental engineer, I was thinking about having him record a user video explaining what needs to be done, how simple it can be, and of course the obstacles to overcome. Something simple short and informative.

    • 2 years ago
  • ChunkyCheezes
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    • If the oil crunch does happen, it will be either our greatest lesson or our biggest failure. We should've stopped using cars ages ago in favor of mag lev mass transit, but that makes too much sense apparently.

    • 2 years ago
  • phukna
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    • "When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!' "

      — Jay Leno

    • 2 years ago
  • phukna
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    • "I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."

      — Monty Python

    • 2 years ago
  • telcod
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    • So this is a supposed to be a news flash from someone who looks like one of those beasts from the Time Machine (1960) who has a taste for nibbling on Yvette Mimieux. He also looks like a Flashing Santa. Maybe the spitting image of Ellen Degeneres when she is ready for the nursing home. Too much money and too many toys. Lots of ego. Climb every mountain, Sir Dick. The last drop of gas will be used in a tank. Maybe we need solar powered tanks? Go for it Dick. And lose the facial hair. Those eyebrows would give Lloyd Bridges a hard on (if he were still around).

    • 2 years ago
  • PressCore
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    • telcod:

      No doubt. And the last drop of diesel fuel, in the kind of tanks they define as a heavily armored military vehicle. Since, Dub'ya's father's 1st oil war with Iraq in the early 90s, their presence was a given. And with the Bush dynasty's 2nd oil war with Iraq, in 2003, more ordinance on the way. Morlocks, notwithstanding, if they need it to satisfy their addiction, and if it's already bankrupted them as Nicola Tesla predicted it would in 1900, then they'll take it anyway they can get it. Though unasked, let me answer your question with a quote from Walter Chronkite: " The free Press isn't merely an institution in
      a democratic republic, it IS the Democracy " Likely what George Mason & Thomas Jefferson had in mind when they held out for a Bill of Rights, the first being the foremost. Which, as they said in the Last Samuri, is why we're having these pleasant conversations here via the ethernet. I'm also of the class of 67.

    • 2 years ago
  • telcod
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    • PressCore:

      That was it, Morlocks! It was driving me a little nuts, but, then again so much does these days. Told my beautiful new wife, who helped me see that Christianity was more than a pleasant fairy tail, that maybe she had unleashed a monster in this former Catholic. Maybe we could use a few more prophets these days. Praying is when you talk to God, meditation is when you listen to God. Thanks again brother, nice to hear from a fellow traveler on the road to kingdom come. Oh yeah, diesel, that's right. Never drove a tank, but my boat has a diesel back up engine. I prefer the wind in her sails.

      Captain B

    • 2 years ago
  • thewarnerla
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    • time to stop driving then. Everyone will need to learn how to farm the land at their house and their neighbors house. Its going to get ugly.

    • 2 years ago
  • PressCore
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    • thewarnerla:

      Maybe not-at least not with the growing food where you are part. Why do you think pre 20th, and 21st century Americans could survive living a much harder life than we need to endure today ? It was commonplace for people to grow their own food where ever they were. And to ride bicycles. In Europe, and Asia, you'll still see big cities where the cars are very small, frew, and far in between. And the people ride bicycles. In the Netherlands, road side rest stops are designed more to accomodate bicycle riders than they are cars. They have a maritime
      climate year round there, so people ride their bikes year round. It's cheaper than having modest means and having a millstone around your neck like a gas
      powered money pit. A lot healthier too. That aerobic exercise is exactly what
      people weakened by a soft life need to regain their vitality.

    • 2 years ago
  • telcod
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    • PressCore:

      Road a bicycle in Seattle for 2 1/2 years, 15 miles a day in 1997-1999. No car. Stopped riding and moved to New Hampshire. Had a stroke 9 months later. Was it the bike or New Hampshire or both? Questions do haunt. New Hampshire sucks.

    • 2 years ago
  • device80
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    • Wasn't the first car ever invented steam powered? oil co. will keep raping the earth until the final barrel is gone and then they will use the patents that they bought-up for electric and hydrogen powered cars, asking them to stop pumping oil for profit is like asking Sarah Palin to act like a grown-up...it's not going to happen

    • 2 years ago
  • PressCore
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    • device80:

      Question: Can you verify that the inventor who invented the breakthrough tech which GM implemented into their EV1 in 1997, actualy sold his patent to some Big Oil Corporation ? Seriously, I'd be interested in knowing one way of another whether that's a fact. You see, that inventor hails from Liverpool, New York in the next town over from me. I video taped(shame on me, how primitive)the documentary entitled: Who killed the electric car in California ? And it goes on to divulge that the inventor used a home stero component amplifier as the basis for his design. I saw the EV1 tested against 3 gas engine powered cars on the Bonneville salt flats in Utah or Nevada or California, whatever, and it was so blazing fast all you could see was a blur as it shot past the gas cars leaving them in its dust. All electric cars are superior technology. The hybrids are not only a day late and a dollar short, but they're made up of rare earth metals the Chinese mine exports have cut back on.

      The electric cars are direct drive. They don't have transmissions to compromise their efficiency. When people see how ultra quiet, utra clean, and nimble they are, the market for oil produced gasoline will plummet, with it's price, and it's production. Why do you think Big Oil has dominated the "big 3" for the past 100 years ? They had to because the internal combustion engine is an inferior technology that was obsolete in 1903, only 28 years after Daimler Benz invented the first horseless carriage. In addition to the EV1, Tesla motors of California still holds the patent for Nicola Tesla's 1903 invention of the induction motor. And they won't give it up. If they were already in partnership with General Electric (which builds the best electric commuter trains in the world), they'd already be producing all electric cars costing $20K each.like the Volkswagon beetles and Saab 96s of the 1930s and 1940s. You know, a people's car: A car that never changes its shape, but constantly improves on its quality every year by introducing new conveniences, and features as standard equipment which are usualy optional extras on GM/Ford/Chrystler. The U.S. Government has already given Tesla Motors a boost in terms of funding during 2009 to develop cars with alternate energy source designs.

      As for Big Oil buying up the hydrogen car patents, one Japanese car maker , Nissan owns them. I recorded a commercial they were airing in early Spring
      of 2008, and I know they're not going to give them up. I've blogged articles
      containing comments from owner/operators who've bought them, and they swear by them. Eventualy, even the Home Depot will likely sell hydrogen gas cannisters like the propane they sell now. The hydrogen powered cars will be in huge demand in 20 years because of the world fresh water shortage. And especialy in very arid countries. Because the desertification of the world is spreading as the glaciers disappear. Ironicaly, when the Arab countries run out of their oil, like the boom towns of the Old West ran out of money when the veins in their mines were exhausted, they will need both all electric power sources to maintain their wealth, economies, and consumer demands. Solar power electric power plants, electric recharging stations for automobiles will still be in favor with them too. And since the hydrogen car's exhaust produces clean, fresh water, which is life per se, the Arabs will need to be a market for that Japanese hydrogen car technology to survive at all. What a hoot that would be, huh ? No more Saudi citizens buying American bottled water because it'll be too expensive. So they attach a charcoal filtered water collector to the tailpipes of their hydrogen cars, and return home from the evening commute with drinking water for their families.Even a broken clock is right twice a day, right ? I'll drink to that.

    • 2 years ago
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      From the most authoritative source available to school kids in the super 60s aka the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show, specificaly where Boris Batternov answers to Natasha where to contact for further instructions: Central Control ?.

    • 2 years ago
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    • device80:

      Steam is still a combustion engine i.e. the old-timey steam where the steam is the "Prime Mover". However, you could use liquid air (compressed) as the new Prime Mover and use steam in a secondary capacity => a pre- warming energy keeping the super cold air from flash freezing the piston to the cylinder walls. Pressure from the Air, Pre-warming & temperature balanced from the Steam.

      In which case you would have an air pressure enhanced steam engine. Cold front + Warm front = a tornado-level explosion w/out combustion. The steam would come from passing a stream of water through a generator-superheated conduit.

      No wood burning required.

      Since the cold energy of the air is cancelled out by the hot energy in the steam you have a zero temperature gain engine, which means no cooling system nor poisonous antifreeze. Since the engine doesn't get hot the tolerances can be closer. Since there isn't the excess Heat the engine oil never breaks down so ya do away with oil changes, forever (and a day, since the engine is a closed system no dirt reaches the oil.)

    • 2 years ago
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