Hi Paul,
I appreciate your concern for my safety, but the biggest hazard in my
volunteer work in Nepal is getting hit by falling oranges. The central
government is totally incompentent and none functional, but at the
village
level in the remote mountains, work goes on smoothly and the
bureaucrats are
on auto-pilot since the Mao guerrillas left and joined the political
process. Tourists are the number one foreign exchange generator over
there
so except for a few rare occasions we are treated well by all factions.
But I can understand your concerns. Thanks. Reading the news you would
think
all Nepal is burning and there are riots in the streets. There were not.
Some of the neighboring countries to the West perhaps but not Nepal.
Interesting to this discussion is the fact that the biggest tire burning,
road shut down strike was because the government raised the price of
petrol
about 4 cents US. And this is in a country where petrol is heavily
subsidized and still way below European costs per liter. Nepalese
taxi and
truck drivers lease their vehicles from wealthy owners, prepaid by the
month. The drivers are strongly organized and their profit margins are
slim.
You can bet that when they start to lose money they take to the streets
because they have found the government backs down way easier then the
vehicle owners.
I'm sure many of you have read the news describing an event you
personally
participated in. Reporters tend to be bias, exaggerate, and
sensationalize
the facts. In short news needs to sell. Objective facts are interesting
only to scientists. This goes for the rotary engine as well. We mostly
hear they smoke, have a loud strange exhaust, and are gas guzzlers.
Why the
heck would anyone want one? Heck their are billions of piston engines
out
there in vehicles. Surely the piston engine must be better. Even Einstein
drove a Chevy with a piston engine:)
Running a car on water IS nonsense and unfortunately the charlatans
selling
Mickey mouse designed electro-lizers are claiming that. Running an
engine on
the constituents of water, Brown's gas (not pure hydrogen) may seems like
nonsense although it is being done and perhaps the over unity
phenomena is
not really over unity at all. E=Mc2 may still apply. It appears there is
more energy in the make-up of water than just hydrogen and oxygen. So
what
does this mean? Simple H-0-H retains a very high atomic charge, for a
short
duration of time and this charge helps release its energy potential
when in
the combustion chamber. Supposedly it's energy potential is higher
than just
straight hydrogen.
I don't know for sure at this point in time, but if mixing in some of
this
Brown's gas with a hydro-carbon based fuel gives me an 10% increase in
gas
mileage and an overall decrease in fuel weight then I am interested in
testing it.
So what to do? Argue for why is shouldn't work or promote the old
energy
intensive methods of burning hydro-carbons because they appear
economically
inexpensive when you examined only the well to gas tank part of the
energy
vector? True they aren't going away anytime soon but maintaining the
status
quo has never been an acceptable norm in light of pursuing something more
efficient. The paradigm shift for accepting a new technology always
starts
with skeptical denial - and well it should.
Doug in Japan
OK, lets be scientific - what is "Brown's Gas" ??? It sounds like it is
just (2) H2 and (1) O2 gases mixed together. The fact that a different
more efficient process is used to break the H2 and the O apart does not
change the atomic reality - right ?
-dave
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