[Vision2020] Fuel Cells

[thansen@moscow.com]

Trust me.  If somebody developed a walkie-talkie, that had a range of 100,000 
miles that operated on one AA battery with a shelf life of two million years, 
there would be alot of companies wanting to buy out the patent and shelve 
the "gizmo" (i.e. AT&T, Sprint, almost any telephone company.

It is common sense.

Tom Hansen



> Tom,
> Perhaps you could supply a few examples of this common practice.
> 
> Troy Merrill
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <thansen@moscow.com>
> To: "David Douglas" <ddouglas@pacsim.com>; "'Art Deco aka W. Fox'"
> <deco@moscow.com>; <vision2020@moscow.com>
> 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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