On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah. It's an itty-bitty space heater at the EON Factory. The address is in > the patent. > > I had some difficulty believing that. Then Forcardi talked about going to > the factory and seeing the gadget, in one of his interviews. I heard that > and thought, "maybe it's true after all." > > Then a Reliable Source sent me a photo of the gadget, with some technical > details, such as the fact that it ran continuously during the winter of > 2008-2009, producing between 5 and 8 kW. I asked permission to upload this > document, but so far, no dice. I have no reason to doubt this is real, and > the heater did run continuously for months. > > I realize the noisy skeptics would say I have many reasons to doubt it. For > me . . . I imagine myself a well-informed aviation enthusiast in 1905. Some > friends come by and show me photos from their recent visit to Dayton, such > as this one: > > http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/genbob/1905WrightFlight41.jpg > > They say, "yeah we saw it fly a good 50 feet in the air for 20 minutes." I > know these people to be experts in aviation. I have no doubt that the > Wrights and others have flown. I have seen other people make uncontrolled > glider flights, such as this guy: > > http://www.flyingmachines.org/lilthl.html > > I think under those circumstances back in 1905 I would be crazy to doubt > what my friends tell me. There is simply no rational reason to think my > friends are crazy, deluded or fooled, or that they are conspiring to fool > me. I do not see any significant difference between that situation and this > one. >
Were the Wright brother keeping everything secret, so that your hypothetical friends of 1905 would have told you not to publish the details? harry Harry
