[Vision2020] Fuel Cells

[thansen@moscow.com]

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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