______________________________________________________________________________ | File Name : CARMAN.ASC | Online Date : 10/06/91 | | Contributed by : Jerry Decker | Dir Category : ENERGY | | From : KeelyNet BBS | DataLine : (214) 324-3501 | | A FREE Alternative Sciences BBS sponsored by Vanguard Sciences | | KeelyNet * PO BOX 870716 * Mesquite, Texas * USA * 75187 | | Voice/FAX : (214) 324-8741 InterNet - keelynet@ix.netcom.com | | WWW Mirror - http://www.eskimo.com/~billb | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| The gist of this file was originally typed up in 1991 with the intent of being placed on KeelyNet then. I found it in an alternate directory recently and decided to update and post it. The file is shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Tom Brown, Director of Borderland Sciences. The Journal of Borderland Sciences has been in active publication since 1945. Tom and Alison have recently moved (1995) to New Zealand with Michael Theroux taking over the operation of Borderland. The journal is an excellent quarterly magazine with subscribers worldwide. If you might like to subscribe, please mention that you heard of Borderland from KeelyNet. Yearly subscriptions are $25. Name : Borderland Research Voice : (707) 825-7733 Contact : Michael Theroux FAX : (707) 825-7779 Address : PO BOX 220 BBS : (707) 825-7779 City : Bayside, CA 95524 e-mail : BSRF@northcoast.com From Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, Jan/Feb 1978. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reprinted from the Boston Herald American, Monday, April 25, 1977. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Energy Saving Invention being Suppressed by Snafu by Scott Burns While the Carter administration promotes its plan to turn a mountain of new taxes into a molehill of energy savings, the real solution to the energy crisis - new technology - may be languishing at our beloved Energy Research and Development Administration. Testifying before the Senate Sub-Committe on Energy Research and Development on April 4, Vincent Carman, inventor of the Inertial Storage Transmission, recounted a mind-boggling tale of resistance and delay at ERDA, the agency charged with solving the energy crisis. Here, in brief, is what he said : "Over six months ago, the National Bureau of Standards completed an extensive evaluation of a revolutionary automobile transmission that they reported could reduce our nation's oil imports by 50 percent. This system can reduce vehicular air pollution in our cities by 75 percent. This OPERATIONAL SYSTEM was publicly demonstrated 18 months ago. The system is simple, uses OFF-THE-SHELF, commercially available components. In the two years that ERDA has been aware of the system they have given the concept no serious attention." It now appears they are attempting to suppress it. Unlike Dr. Ilok's solution to the energy crisis (reported here April 17-20), Carman's invention EXISTS, has been publicly demonstrated, and requires NO research and development investment from ERDA. Carman merely wants ERDA to get OUT OF THE WAY and make it possible for him to install his invention on some U.S. Post Office trucks so that he might further demonstrate its utility and potential for energy savings. But ERDA won't get out of the way. Instead, Carman says they have suppressed the National Bureau of Standards evaluation of his invention, refusing to release it to other agencies. They've done this because the NBS report recommends Carman's invention for funding, a singular achievement since only 22 of some 4300 submissions have enjoyed positive recommendation from NBS. ERDA's own, one-and-a-half page report, issued later, rejects the invention, saying that it is too expensive, won't achieve the savings the inventor had DEMONSTRATED AND DOCUMENTED, and won't be accepted by the automobile industry. ERDA is circulating its own report and has not, to date, released the NBS report, damaging both Carman's credibility and his ability to attract the interest of other government agencies or private industry. What is the IST System? Carman's Inertial Storage Transmission works by storing oil under high pressure. This means that all the power output from an engine can be used so that in city driving where car engines idle much of the time, a car could run USING the STORED POWER of its engine and the engine's power WOULD NEVER BE LOST IN WASTEFUL IDLING. (stored in the form of compressed oil) As a consequence, the engine could be OFF 80 PERCENT OF THE TIME, REDUCING POLLUTION by 75 PERCENT and FUEL CONSUMPTION by 50 PERCENT! Estimates indicate the IST could save some 35 BILLION GALLONS A YEAR, cutting our imported oil IN HALF. Carman didn't hear from ERDA for six months after NBS's positive report was issued and then only after ERDA was pressured by Mark Hatfield and Congressman Robert Duncan. Clearly, ERDA would like the matter to quietly disappear. Now let's consider the quality of the two reports : ERDA's negative report was produced in 42 days BY ONE INDIVIDUAL WITHOUT BENEFIT OF ANY PHYSICAL TESTING. The uncirculated NBS report was based on 10 months of work and contributions from a variety of sources, many of them here in Massachusetts. The Department of Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, contributed to the evaluation as did the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts, the Boston Police Department, the MBTA and Yellow Cab Corporation. Nonetheless, ERDA continues to circulate its own report rather than the NBS report. One possible reason is that ERDA is committed to another technology, the flywheel energy storage system. To date, they have spent some $200,000 on a feasibility study of such systems. The study determined it would take three years and 4.5 million to get a prototype on the road, something Carman ACHIEVED IN LESS THAN A YEAR WITH $4000. The Department of Transportation also has an interest in flywheel systems and has spent five years and $300,000 trying to convert a Ford Pinto into a flywheel storage car. Together, the two agencies have a contract to supply flywheel vehicles to the city of New York. (Birds of a feather?) Meanwhile, the Postal Service also reports it has contracts for flywheel vehicles and therefore can't put up funds for demonstration of the IST system. ERDA, in other words, has neatly closed out a competing technology because the agency is in a position to exercise MONOPOLISTIC CONTROL over the flow of both money and ideas in new energy technologies. In an eloquent close to his testimony before the Senate sub-committee, Carman said ; "The energy problem has a solution and it is quite probable that a large part of that solution can come from the little guy. Two men in an upstairs room gave us the telephone, and a couple of bicycle mechanics brought aviation to the world. It is sometimes said that the day of the individual inventor is over, but nobody told Robert Goddard that, and he invented the ballistic missle in his backyard. In the last few years, while the greatest scientific organizations in both the United States and Russia struggled with the problem of generating electric power from fusion, a young man in California in his own lab produced the first major breakthrough." Now that we've seen Carter's energy plan, we know that Carter has chosen taxation, not technology, as the means of "solving" the energy crisis. The money we all start paying in federal gasoline taxes will soon help ERDA expand its research efforts, - WHILE IT IGNORES SOLUTIONS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vanguard note... As you can see from the experience of Mr. Carman, all the big corporations and government agencies, with their access to huge laboratories and technical resources, quake in their shoes that some independent lone inventor will discover in his garage what they COULD NOT DISCOVER WITH ALL THEIR RESOURCES. How could they justify their existence and all their accumulated knowledge without staying far in advance of what any single person or small, LESS ENDOWED group could do? What would their stockholders and bosses say? With regard to Carman, I regret the article does not provide EXPLICIT directions as to what he is doing beyond using the oil pressure. From reading the article, it appears the engine is shut down while in an idling condition, if that's the case, there might be some reticence in turning off your engine at every stop light and turning it back on when it is time to roll, even though this would be an 'automatic' process as part of the system. Keep at it folks...read, talk to others, EXPERIMENT, try your hunches....the past shows that you DON'T NEED TO BE RICH or have tons of equipment to experiment and achieve success. And be sure to share it with as many people as you can. Don't worry about 'evaluation' or a stamp of approval, by god, if it works as claimed, the market will determine its success. Build it, sell it to your friends, expand, build and sell more, use networks and get the thing used in a practical sense. Do what the Russians are doing with the very high efficiency YUSMAR heat generations system. At a recent conference on low level energy reactions, one of the Chief Scientists for the DOE (Thomas Ward) was there. Everyone complained that no funding was available for research into 'transmutation' using low level energies. The ramifications include not just transmutation of one element to another, but the conversion of radioactive elements into STABLE ELEMENTS WHICH HAS BEEN DONE on a reliable basis. Dr. Robert Monti of Canada can take a radioactive element and over a 3 day period, convert it to a stable element with no trace of radioactivity. Nevertheless, doors are shut when proposals of this nature are presented because the common 'belief' is it CAN'T BE DONE. As in the Carman device, no funding was even considered for what had every indication of being a WORKING TECHNOLOGY, not just investigation of an anomaly, erratic unexplained phenomena or evaluation. Almost 500 million each year is funneled towards 'hot fusion' research WITH NO SUCCESS. Yet NOT ONE PENNY is spent for 'cold fusion' or overunity investigations because most academia 'believes' cold fusion is a mistake, unproven or 'can't happen.' So what can we do in our own small way to make some kind of advances? Formal science requires large sums of money to do experiments, but as Carman noted above, many important inventions have been made by garage and table type experimenters, not by large corporate groups. Forget about large scale devices, stick with table top demonstrations. Wait until one of us or a small team comes up with practical, affordable and publicly available free energy or antigravity technology. Don't you think that the logic will flow something like this : If these guys discovered this with such limited resources, WHAT COULD THEY DO IF PROPERLY SPONSORED??? >>> Jerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------