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| File Name : CARMAN.ASC | Online Date : 10/06/91 |
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| Contributed by : Jerry Decker | Dir Category : ENERGY |
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The gist of this file was originally typed up in 1991 with the intent of being
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placed on KeelyNet then. I found it in an alternate directory recently and
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decided to update and post it. The file is shared with KeelyNet courtesy of
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Tom Brown, Director of Borderland Sciences. The Journal of Borderland
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Sciences has been in active publication since 1945. Tom and Alison have
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recently moved (1995) to New Zealand with Michael Theroux taking over the
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City : Bayside, CA 95524 e-mail : BSRF@northcoast.com
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From Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, Jan/Feb 1978.
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Reprinted from the Boston Herald American, Monday, April 25, 1977.
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Energy Saving Invention being Suppressed by Snafu
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by Scott Burns
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While the Carter administration promotes its plan to turn a mountain of new
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taxes into a molehill of energy savings, the real solution to the energy
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crisis - new technology - may be languishing at our beloved Energy
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Research and Development Administration.
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Testifying before the Senate Sub-Committe on Energy Research and Development
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on April 4, Vincent Carman, inventor of the Inertial Storage Transmission,
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recounted a mind-boggling tale of resistance and delay at ERDA, the agency
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charged with solving the energy crisis.
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Here, in brief, is what he said :
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"Over six months ago, the National Bureau of Standards completed an
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extensive evaluation of a revolutionary automobile transmission that they
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reported could reduce our nation's oil imports by 50 percent. This system
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can reduce vehicular air pollution in our cities by 75 percent.
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This OPERATIONAL SYSTEM was publicly demonstrated 18 months ago. The
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system is simple, uses OFF-THE-SHELF, commercially available components.
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In the two years that ERDA has been aware of the system they have given the
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concept no serious attention."
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It now appears they are attempting to suppress it.
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Unlike Dr. Ilok's solution to the energy crisis (reported here April 17-20),
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Carman's invention EXISTS, has been publicly demonstrated, and requires NO
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research and development investment from ERDA.
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Carman merely wants ERDA to get OUT OF THE WAY and make it possible for him to
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install his invention on some U.S. Post Office trucks so that he might further
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demonstrate its utility and potential for energy savings.
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But ERDA won't get out of the way. Instead, Carman says they have suppressed
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the National Bureau of Standards evaluation of his invention, refusing to
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release it to other agencies.
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They've done this because the NBS report recommends Carman's invention for
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funding, a singular achievement since only 22 of some 4300 submissions have
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enjoyed positive recommendation from NBS.
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ERDA's own, one-and-a-half page report, issued later, rejects the invention,
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saying that it is too expensive, won't achieve the savings the inventor had
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DEMONSTRATED AND DOCUMENTED, and won't be accepted by the automobile industry.
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ERDA is circulating its own report and has not, to date, released the NBS
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report, damaging both Carman's credibility and his ability to attract the
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interest of other government agencies or private industry.
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What is the IST System?
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Carman's Inertial Storage Transmission works by storing oil under high
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pressure.
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This means that all the power output from an engine can be used so that in
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city driving where car engines idle much of the time, a car could run USING
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the STORED POWER of its engine and the engine's power WOULD NEVER BE LOST IN
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WASTEFUL IDLING. (stored in the form of compressed oil)
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As a consequence, the engine could be OFF 80 PERCENT OF THE TIME, REDUCING
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POLLUTION by 75 PERCENT and FUEL CONSUMPTION by 50 PERCENT!
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Estimates indicate the IST could save some 35 BILLION GALLONS A YEAR, cutting
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our imported oil IN HALF.
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Carman didn't hear from ERDA for six months after NBS's positive report was
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issued and then only after ERDA was pressured by Mark Hatfield and Congressman
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Robert Duncan. Clearly, ERDA would like the matter to quietly disappear.
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Now let's consider the quality of the two reports :
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ERDA's negative report was produced in 42 days BY ONE INDIVIDUAL WITHOUT
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BENEFIT OF ANY PHYSICAL TESTING.
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The uncirculated NBS report was based on 10 months of work and
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contributions from a variety of sources, many of them here in
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Massachusetts.
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The Department of Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, contributed
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to the evaluation as did the Mechanical Engineering Department at the
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University of Massachusetts, the Boston Police Department, the MBTA and
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Yellow Cab Corporation.
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Nonetheless, ERDA continues to circulate its own report rather than the NBS
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report.
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One possible reason is that ERDA is committed to another technology, the
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flywheel energy storage system. To date, they have spent some $200,000 on
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a feasibility study of such systems. The study determined it would take
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three years and 4.5 million to get a prototype on the road,
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something Carman ACHIEVED IN LESS THAN A YEAR WITH $4000.
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The Department of Transportation also has an interest in flywheel systems
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and has spent five years and $300,000 trying to convert a Ford Pinto into
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a flywheel storage car. Together, the two agencies have a contract to
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supply flywheel vehicles to the city of New York. (Birds of a feather?)
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Meanwhile, the Postal Service also reports it has contracts for flywheel
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vehicles and therefore can't put up funds for demonstration of the IST
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system.
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ERDA, in other words, has neatly closed out a competing technology because
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the agency is in a position to exercise MONOPOLISTIC CONTROL over the flow
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of both money and ideas in new energy technologies.
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In an eloquent close to his testimony before the Senate sub-committee,
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Carman said ;
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"The energy problem has a solution and it is quite probable that a large
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part of that solution can come from the little guy.
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Two men in an upstairs room gave us the telephone, and a couple of bicycle
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mechanics brought aviation to the world. It is sometimes said that the day
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of the individual inventor is over, but nobody told Robert Goddard that,
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and he invented the ballistic missle in his backyard.
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In the last few years, while the greatest scientific organizations in both
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the United States and Russia struggled with the problem of generating
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electric power from fusion, a young man in California in his own lab
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produced the first major breakthrough."
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Now that we've seen Carter's energy plan, we know that Carter has chosen
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taxation, not technology, as the means of "solving" the energy crisis.
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The money we all start paying in federal gasoline taxes will soon help ERDA
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expand its research efforts, - WHILE IT IGNORES SOLUTIONS.
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Vanguard note...
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As you can see from the experience of Mr. Carman, all the big corporations and
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government agencies, with their access to huge laboratories and technical
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resources, quake in their shoes that some independent lone inventor will
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discover in his garage what they COULD NOT DISCOVER WITH ALL THEIR RESOURCES.
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How could they justify their existence and all their accumulated knowledge
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without staying far in advance of what any single person or small, LESS
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ENDOWED group could do?
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What would their stockholders and bosses say?
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With regard to Carman, I regret the article does not provide EXPLICIT
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directions as to what he is doing beyond using the oil pressure. From reading
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the article, it appears the engine is shut down while in an idling condition,
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if that's the case, there might be some reticence in turning off your engine
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at every stop light and turning it back on when it is time to roll, even
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though this would be an 'automatic' process as part of the system.
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Keep at it folks...read, talk to others, EXPERIMENT, try your hunches....the
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past shows that you DON'T NEED TO BE RICH or have tons of equipment to
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experiment and achieve success. And be sure to share it with as many people
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as you can. Don't worry about 'evaluation' or a stamp of approval, by god, if
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it works as claimed, the market will determine its success. Build it, sell it
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to your friends, expand, build and sell more, use networks and get the thing
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used in a practical sense. Do what the Russians are doing with the very high
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efficiency YUSMAR heat generations system.
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At a recent conference on low level energy reactions, one of the Chief
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Scientists for the DOE (Thomas Ward) was there. Everyone complained that no
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funding was available for research into 'transmutation' using low level
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energies.
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The ramifications include not just transmutation of one element to another,
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but the conversion of radioactive elements into STABLE ELEMENTS WHICH HAS BEEN
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DONE on a reliable basis. Dr. Robert Monti of Canada can take a radioactive
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element and over a 3 day period, convert it to a stable element with no trace
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of radioactivity. Nevertheless, doors are shut when proposals of this nature
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are presented because the common 'belief' is it CAN'T BE DONE.
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As in the Carman device, no funding was even considered for what had every
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indication of being a WORKING TECHNOLOGY, not just investigation of an
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anomaly, erratic unexplained phenomena or evaluation. Almost 500 million each
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year is funneled towards 'hot fusion' research WITH NO SUCCESS. Yet NOT ONE
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PENNY is spent for 'cold fusion' or overunity investigations because most
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academia 'believes' cold fusion is a mistake, unproven or 'can't happen.'
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So what can we do in our own small way to make some kind of advances? Formal
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science requires large sums of money to do experiments, but as Carman noted
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above, many important inventions have been made by garage and table type
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experimenters, not by large corporate groups. Forget about large scale
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devices, stick with table top demonstrations.
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Wait until one of us or a small team comes up with practical, affordable and
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publicly available free energy or antigravity technology. Don't you think
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that the logic will flow something like this :
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If these guys discovered this with such limited resources,
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WHAT COULD THEY DO IF PROPERLY SPONSORED???
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>>> Jerry
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