Tom Hudson wrote:
Damn. If it had been the DeLorean, I might have jumped on it.
We should be thankful that most of the con artists that try this sort of
thing are so technologically incompetent. They know very little about
science and engineering, so their "stunts" are transparent frauds to
anyone with a little background in science and engineering. This type of
con artist depends on "stage magic" to trick would-be investors. Like
the "bearing failure" in Tilley's case.
It's more worrisome when someone who *does* understand sets out to
produce such a fraud. They are *far* harder to catch. There have been
perpetual motion machines that are so cleverly built that even experts
have trouble figuring out how they did it.
For example: Find a road with abandoned power lines running along the
side of it, or bury the wires in the roadway. Connect these wires to
your "transmitter". Hide the matching "receiver" in the EV. Now you have
a way to secretly receive power to either charge the batteries or extend
the range. Your EV will indeed get remarkable range! (I believe Nikola
Tesla used this trick in the 1920's).
--
An engineer can do for a nickel what any damn fool can do for a dollar.
-- Henry Ford
--
Lee A. Hart, http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm
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