Does anyone know what happened to Crystal Energy, Inc. formerly of Stamford CT, or their "augmented combustion" technology? Google has turned up little that is current.
This was a company which was written up and prominently featured on the cover of IE Issue 18 by Gene Mallove in 1998, and which company had licensed the combustion catalyst of Dr. S. Berenyi in the patent below . which was claimed to be so effective as to suggest - get this: actual nuclear fusion. This was not a fly-by-night thing, and there was lots of apparent testing done by seemingly qualified scientists. Alpha radiation was said to have been detected. http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4844716/description.html . and the patent is recently expired. The listed assignee on the patent is FUEL CONSERVATION CORPORATION 37 West Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07451 . but they appear to be no longer operative either. Gene was notorious for getting very excited over fringe-of-the fringe technology, most of which was too far out there (at that point in time) to have any chance for immediate success . and this particular one (augmented combustion) would easily fit into that category . except that inexplicably, it is looking to be one of those "synchronicity" things for me, where certain information seems to have been "directed" towards a "target" in an eerie and even viral kind of way. . ever play with a Ouija board? . that is not a recommendation BTW . but once as a student, I was walking out of the library stacks in a funk, having been unable to find a desperately needed citation for an overdue paper, when the sought-after book actually fell off the shelf onto the aisle in front of me, and on a different floor than where it was supposed to be. Probably coincidental. except that over the 4-5 intervening decades, others have told me of having similar weird and almost mystical experiences, not with ghosts so much as with books . the crux of this observation being that "information" (in the sense of structured entities, like a coherent 'meme' perhaps) seems to actually have some kind of self-generated identity - with the active property of occasionally seeking out a host . so to speak. This is of course far weirder than anything Gene ever dredged up. I now have a deep-realization - in the ontological category of "nomen est numen" (or "nomen est omen") while sitting in the midst of a dusty collection of old magazines, that Gene himself will have found a bit of double immortality in the future, in the sense of . err . "gene est meme"? which is to say in inspiring a future "gene-eration" of those who are pondering memes that are "outside the box" of current paradigms.
