[Vision2020] Fuel Cells

[Troy Merrill]

Tom,
I have no reason to trust you.

I think it much more likely that if the 'gizmo' you describe was invented it
would be aggressively marketed, that free enterprise thing.

Your appeal to 'common sense' is strangely reminiscent of the 'Dougsters'
appeal to the bible.

Troy Merrill
on the palouse again

----- Original Message -----
From: <thansen@moscow.com>
To: "Troy Merrill" <troy1@moscow.com>; "David Douglas"
<ddouglas@pacsim.com>; "'Art Deco aka W. Fox'" <deco@moscow.com>;
<vision2020@moscow.com>; <thansen@moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fuel Cells


> 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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