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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I have no real experience
- What excites you about this campaign?
- I have felt all along that there are alternatives to our energy problems...auto as well as electrical issues. To be apart of something that might listen to what I say and get my ideas into the ears of people that do know a hell of a lot more than me also excites me. I see the potential for this to not only help reduce our dependances, but our foot prints on the planet and bring jobs back to america.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Brainstorm, ???
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Alex
Brown's gas or Rhodes gas and Joe's cell - well, school is still out. There are issues of conservation still to be resolved. For example, some believe that hydrogen just responds in the car's computer to burn lean, resulting in some 'apparent' gain of mileage. There just needs to be a lot more testing and analyses of these concepts. Again, that all costs 'risk capital' money.
Kind regards,
Walter
You said: I was taught that no idea is wrong and was given the freedom to try many of them. You were taught well!
Yes, a single Alan wrench can fully disassemble the OPUS rotary piston steam engine. Production is all precision machining and assembly. Specialized materials and alloys are also involved. Ultimately, the unit costs are lower than for the internal combustion engine. Having done some of the numbers, the entry capital required to launch this effort is in the range of $25-30MM. The research, prototyping and testing is already accomplished and proven.
Design adaptation, or the retrofit of existing vessels, is very feasible. The driver can even be mounted outside the transom in the water. Very versatile system. Boat and ship fuel economy is a function in hours of run time, engine system efficiency, fuel selection and costs - and the out-put power vs. hull drag..
The absence Risk Capital Investors remains the single largest obstacle to the recovery of our manufacturing base and economy, as the resources of terrific inventions and inventors are prolific in our country.
During the past decade, the only real example of a risk investment was Paul Alan of Microsoft having put up $20MM to the guys in Lancaster, CA to build the 'Space Plane'. He walked in and just wrote a check - 'do it'. The space was built and tested successfully at a 'fraction' of what it would of cost for a NASA or an aerospace company to have accomplished the task. The second example is Boone Pickens. That's it. Even Warren Buffet declaring all of his wealth to off-shore charitable foundations, does nothing to reinforce the underside of our economy. Just the overhead and fat salaries of many of these 'foundations' eat the money, leaving a very small beneficial amounts to targeted needs. The big, deep pockets of this country really needs to 'wake up'.
Hydro Lance has accomplished the research and test of the HARTH Technology for ocean transport, ships and boats with speed, stability, super fuel economy and lower emissions, if not all 'green' in our oceans. Business & project plans, applications, market and demand are ready. None-the-less, such initial capitalization is never equity-based finance, but rather risk capital'. Venture capitalist do not enter the picture until cash flow and some level of profit is operational, and they have slipped toward equity based finance with onerous terms. Accordingly, there is a very large capital hole to be filled, for any meaningful advancement and recovery of our industrious nation.
Manufacturing support service (Economics 101). We have become a service community and the power of control has shifted off shore. It was predictable.
Larry, we will keep in touch.
Best regards,
Walter
Hi Larry:Ships burn fuel at a rate having to do with the size of engine and the time it runs. These diesel engines usually burn about 1/3 a pound per horse power per hour. The last part is important. If in a given hour of cruising, ship one of a given tonnage, travels 15 Nautical miles in one hour on a given unit quantity of fuel, and ship two of like tonnage and an identical engine can travel 40 miles on the same unit of fuel, then ship two would obviously have lower drag and a market advantage for cargo or passenger transport. When you think of fuel economy and even overhaul frequency, think hours of engine run time and how far and at what speed that ship can go.
OPUS has been built and tested extensively in one size, though the engineering plans were developed for other sized units. The Opus rotary piston steam system can use any fuel. For example, if a ship had been fitted or retrofitted with an OPUS system, some ocean transporters currently facing bankruptcy, would not have had this problem. While not a 'green' fuel, kerosene' is extremely cheap and available which could have instantly been utilized as a really good fuel to power the Opus mono-tube, closed cycle boiler. This boiler comes to a full operational head of steam within seven seconds of start-up. All of that said, we now encounter the high capital costs of establishing a facility and manufacturing equipment costs - a subject, and difficulty, of 'risk capital investment' that I 'm sure that you know well.
Thanks for writing,
Walter
I will get back with you.
Melissa