Fw: [Gasification]free piston engine

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Tue, 23 May 2006 12:02:20 -0500, Kermit wrote in message 
<001e01c67e8a$c34e19e0$684756d8 at CPQ28298264587>:

>           My free piston engine would be an internal combustion or
>           steam
> engine and would be used in buildings for cogeneration. I have a
> prototype started. My problem is age and lack of support. 

..nope, your own proprietary thinking, which deny you, our support.  
Look at the 22 year history of GNU/Linux; _one_ guy, Eric Stallman 
started out rewriting every UNIX program because he saw that it was
possible to defeat capitalism and democracy itself like Microsoft does
now, by "welding the hood shut" and ban tinkering and thinking.
(Yes, _all_ the "good" old Unix firms did this to their code back then.)

..nine years later, a gas-list like number of people had written enough
GNU tools to help Linus Torvalds write Linux.  Now, in 2006, Microsoft
wets its pants because their lawyering-by-proxy act backfired, big time;
imagine Katherine in the Post deploy 10000 people instead of just
Bernstein 'n Woodward to get Nixon outta Office, and you have 
http://groklaw.net/ .  ;o)


..Microsoft pulled this trick (too late), because they see they cannot
compete at against GNU/Linux.

..find out what you wanna share, and do it.

>          One of the things that is unreal to me is the emphasis on
>          cars. A one kilowatt fuel cell in a house, fueled by
>          natural gas could save nearly as much energy as a 30 kw fuel
>          cell in a car.

..shoot for 10kW.  1kW is too small for the house, 30kW too
expensive for your ride, most of them use 5-10kW cruising.
10kWe powers both your home and your ride and you sell 
your surplus to the grid people.

>  The best energy machine is an apartment house or large general
> purpose building. A cluster of them could eliminate commuting. I have
> ben trying to get an Ecomindium project started here. I may try to
> apply to a foundation for money to build one. The needs of the
> building would focus development on energy conserving and alternate
> energy devices. Certainly a Lister fed by a gasifier would be
> important.

..we all need funding, and none of us get any "by asking nicely."

>          So far I have been unsuccesful in finding a publisher for my
>          book.
> One firm wanted $20,000 to publish the book. 

..so they are sissies.  And you?

> Certainly the book is important because it focuses on the methods of
> sustainability. It seems however to be invisible to most people
> because of the house and car society culture.

..and your proprietary thinking.  Putting your book on the web is 
next to free, and if it is any useful, people will wanna pay to get it 
on paper too.  One guy started http://wikipedia.org/ too, now it's
3 mill articles in about 60 languages.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.