[Vision2020] Fuel Cells
thansen@moscow.com
thansen@moscow.com
Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:00:53 GMT
THis is common practice, Mr. Douglas -
Any time somebody creates a gizmo that adversely impacts a company's bottom
line, the company does all in its power to "shelve" that gizmo.
Tom Hansen
> Wayne,
>
> You write:
>
> "Many years ago a small company in southern California developed an
> economical method of using solar generated electrical power to produce and
> to store hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis."
>
> And
>
> "Guess what? The small company was bought by a petroleum consortium and
> their research disappeared from commercial consideration as did a number of
> other promising alternative energy proposals."
>
>
>
>
> Do you have any specific data on this? The data might include:
> small company name,
> petroleum consortium name,
> dates,
> patents.
> etc.
>
> What you say may very well be true. But it is rife
> with generalities, reminiscent of the old story of the 100 mpg
> carburetor that has been kept from the market (for decades).
>
> With specifics, this is an account of, at best, a truly wasteful
> business practice. Without specifics, the account remains,
> as yet, unverifiable--a part of the realm of
> big-business-behaving-badly urban legends.
>
> Best,
>
> David Douglas
>
>
>
>
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