i am amused. I was one of the winners of the google 10 days in google books contest, won an ereader. one of the first things i loaded was a collection of Heinlein i downloaded a while ago but not yet read through, buncha text iles. ive been going through it in alphabetical order, and brown shoe is next up, to read during the bus ride to work this morning.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:17 AM, William Beaty <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, [email protected] wrote: > >> If this is so, then it should surprise everyone by also running on water. >> :) > > But in that case everyone "knows" that it's a scam. Right? > > If it turns out to actually be consuming vegetable oil, then you can start > immediately selling them for use in vehicles or home generators. Later on, > (after it's far too late for hostile debunkers to kill the idea,) we might > find that it burns too little oil while producing too much mechanical > energy. > > Robert Heinlein used this same plot device in his short called "Brown Shoe," > where the main character invented a FE magnet motor, yet managed to sell it > by incoprorating it in normal motors for his father's conveyor belt company. > (Sell conventional-seeming commercial products which are cheaper to operate > than all your competitors' products.) > > > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) > William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website > billb at amasci com http://amasci.com > EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair > Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci > >
