[Vision2020] Fuel Cells

[Troy Merrill]

Tom,
Perhaps you could supply a few examples of this common practice.

Troy Merrill

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From: <thansen@moscow.com>
To: "David Douglas" <ddouglas@pacsim.com>; "'Art Deco aka W. Fox'"
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Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 3:00 PM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Fuel Cells


> 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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