Originally Posted by FTroopChief
Thank you GDC for posting that link. That was to be my next post as I went down the list articles written about Tom and his "TOY". I was living in Albuquerque, NM at the time and never could quite understand how he went "off the board" so suddenly.
The price of gas went up 8 cents a gallon two days ago, and by some strange quirt my CRS was pushed back in time and I thought about Tom Ogle. Today I took a little time and and Ogle'd him and was surprised at the amount of writing there is on him. The link you provided, if followed out and then google the Patent # 4,177,779. There is some interesting reading, including the patent and all the drawngs.
Reminds me of a WWII Engineer Batallion with the motto, "The difficult we do right away, The impossible may take a little while".
I have no idea how it worked, but apparently it did, maybe he used K&N Filters, rotflmao.
Where is the inventor of e=mc2 when you need him?
I figured Franc would have the answer by now.
John P
FTroopChief
Sorry John but my meager income could not afford an education in physics
But thanks for the compliment.
But one need not go to college to learn such things.
I have to agree with Downward Spiral here. There simply isn't enough energy in a gallon of gas. Perhaps Ensign Checkov could collect some errant nutrinos from a nuclear "wessel" and get with Chief Engineer Scotty on the challenge of changing the laws of physics. Thereby making this device actually work.
Joliet John says it best, the conspiracy theories on the Big Oil squashing this technology abounds. In reality, it makes no sense. The resourse of oil is a known finite. Having the ownership of any energy technology gives one an edge over their competition.
Imagine if, instead of messing up the Gulf of Mexico with a high risk drilling operation, BP could just put Shell and Hugo Chavez out of business selling carbuerators.
Oil companies do not exist to deliver gasoline. They exist to make a profit delivering gasoline. Or anything else from which they can profit.