• The Thorny Vicissitudes of Innovation – Part One

     

    The technology to create unlimited, clean, free energy has existed for over a hundred years. Dozens, perhaps hundreds of inventors have created machines that seem to pull energy out of thin air. Machines that could defy gravity, levitate, and fly. Machines that bend the fabric of spacetime itself.

    Let’s start with proven ways to vastly increase efficiency of internal combustion engines.

    Pogue Carburetor

    Since the 1920s clever inventors have discovered many different ways of making energy less expensive and more efficient. However, many times their technology was suppressed. And in some cases, the inventors died under strange circumstances.

    In 1951, the United States passed the Invention Secrecy Act. This allows the US government to keep certain technologies and inventions secret legally. If they decide something threatens the country’s economy or security, it’s stamped with a secrecy order and classified.

    Charles Pogue was a Canadian mechanic and car tinkerer. In the early 1930s, he started experimenting with carburetors, trying to improve fuel efficiency. A carburetor is a part of a gas-powered engine that mixes air and fuel for combustion. The mixture is then sent to the engine cylinders where it’s ignited to power the engine.

    Unlike traditional carburetors which mix air with liquid gasoline, the Pogue carburetor fully vaporized gas before it entered the combustion chamber. This sky-rocketed engine efficiency.

    In Jan. 3, 1935 Charles N. Pogue was issued a Canadian patent – 353,538 – for a High Mileage Carburetor.

    In Apr. 9, 1935 Charles N. Pogue was issued a US patent – 1,997,497- for a High Mileage Carburetor.

    In Jan. 7, 1936 Charles N. Pogue was issued a US Patent – 2,026,798- for his newer High Mileage Carburetor. Pogue used the carburetor for about ten years on his car and produced about 200 carburetors thru the Economy Carburetor Co. http://www.byronwine.com/files/1936%20Ford%20test.pdf.

    In early 1936, the Breen Motor Company tested the Pogue carburetor on a Ford V8 coupe. It got 26.2 miles on one pint of gasoline. That’s almost 220 miles per gallon (mpg)! Ford tested it. They got 200 mpg. The Pogue carburetor was tested for Canadian Automotive magazine. They reported 218 mpg!

    In Dec. 12, 1936 Canadian Automotive Magazine stated that the standard carburetor gets about 25 mpg at only 9% efficiency. Therefore the Pogue carburetor is 72% efficient overall at 200 mpg.

    In 1953 CARS magazine stated that in the opening months of 1936, Pogue panicked the Toronto stock exchange and threw fright into the major oil companies. Stock exchange offices and brokers were swamped with orders to dump all oil stock immediately. This same article states that Winnipeg’s largest automobile dealers tested the Pogue carburetor and got results of up to 216.8 mpg!

    Soon after that, Pogue shop was broken into. All carburetors, equipment, notes, and documents were stolen. As of January 1981, Charles N. Pogue was still alive at age 81 and was living in a rest home in Winnipeg, Canada. He refused to talk to anyone or to receive visitors from outside his own family.

    In 1980 Arthur C. Sgrignoli, after 45 years, has built a legendary Pogue carburetor by hand and is said to have achieved an efficiency of 86%

    In 1981 Ultra-Lean Carburetors of Northridge, CA, was selling a set of plans for the Pogue carburetor for $50. https://archive.org/details/energy-invention-suppression/page/65/mode/2up

    Tom Ogle

    It all started with a lawn mower.

    In the 1970s Tom Ogle ran a hose from the top of the tank of his lawn mower directly into the carburetor and the engine kept running for 96 hours on just the fumes from the fuel remaining in the small tank.

    https://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?p=1310

    His 1970 Ford Galaxy 54 got 11 mpg, but after a few modifications, it got an astounding 100 mpg.

    Tom Ogle was granted patent # 4,177,779 on Dec. 11th, 1979

    “I was messing around with a lawn-mower when I accidentally knocked a hole in its fuel tank. I put a vacuum line running from the tank straight into the carburetor inlet. I just let it run and it kept running and running but the fuel level stayed the same. I got excited. The lawn-mower was running without a carburetor and getting tremendous efficiency.”

    https://web.archive.org/web/20170522054119/http://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?p=1310

    Shell Oil reportedly offered him $25 million cash for the design. Ogle passed when he found out they intended to hide the invention forever.

    On 14, 1978 Ogle was shot in the stomach by an unidentified assailant outside a bar in Northeast El Paso, Texas. He survived the shooting after being rushed to the hospital. No suspect was ever identified or arrested.

    On August 18, 1978 Ogle collapsed and died at a friend’s apartment in El Paso. He was 26 years old.

    The El Paso medical examiner ruled Ogle’s death an accidental overdose. Reports indicated he had been drinking heavily and had taken the tranquilizer Darvon (propoxyphene). He was revived multiple times by paramedics en route to the hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.

    Later that year [1978], the US and Saudi Arabia negotiated the United States Saudi Arabian Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation. They agreed to use US dollars for oil contracts. The Petro Dollar became the de facto currency of the world that day.

    https://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?page_id=968

    John Weston

    Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brown

    During the 1970s Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brown, a former member of Project Blue Book, created a device that attached to the air intake of a vehicle, reducing emissions by 50 to 70%. And increasing miles per gallon. The EPA fought him every step of the way.

    https://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?s=Charles+Brown

    What he humorously referred to as a “thunderstorm in a bottle” was actually an inexpensive “Ring of Power” / “Power Pak” which consisted of water-saturated porous ceramic rings aspirated by intake air, which raised the humidity to an optimum of about 95% in order to improve combustion and reduce smoke exhaust. The device worked in any car or truck to improve performance, and it reduced carbon deposits and emissions.

    In 1987 he was named National Inventor of the Year by the Palm Beach Society of American Inventors and in March 1980 was named as one of six top energy inventors in the U.S. by the research staff affiliated with NBC News “Today Show.” https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35780371/charles_lester-brown

    In an interview published in Tom Valentine’s National Exchange (April 1977), Brown said:

    “Additionally, our system results in less engine vibration, longer spark plug life, longer engine life, a quieter engine and increase effective road horsepower and significantly improved gasoline mileage.”

    https://www.rexresearch.com/nelsonarticles/waterforgasoline.pdf

    While Brown believed that EPA’s goal of cleaner air is admirable, its rigid regulatory approach seemed to favor large manufacturers and complex (expensive) solutions while making it difficult for independent inventors with simpler, low-cost technologies to bring products to market.

    Overall Brown felt that the certification and compliance process was overly burdensome and inimical to innovation

    Stanley Meyer

    A water fuel cell injector.

    Stan Meyer will be remembered in history as the guy who designed, and built a motor-powered vehicle that ran on water.

    https://www.stansdream.com/

    https://www.youtube.com/user/stanmeyerlives/videos

    He has demonstrated his fuel cell device before Professor Michael Laughton, Dean of Engineering at Mary College, London, Admiral Sir Anthony Griffin, a former controller of the British Navy, and Dr Keith Hindley, a UK research chemist. According to these witnesses, the most startling aspect of the Meyer cell was that it remained cold, even after hours of gas production as his system appeared to operate on mere milli-amperes, rather than the amperes that conventional electrolysis would require. The witnesses also stated:

    “After hours of discussion between ourselves, we concluded that Stan Meyer did appear to have discovered an entirely new method for splitting water which showed few of the characteristics of classical electrolysis. Confirmation that his devices actually do work come from his collection of granted US patents on various parts of the WFC (Water Fuel System) system. Since they were granted under Section 101 by the US Patent Office, the hardware involved in the patents has been examined experimentally by US Patent Office experts and their seconded experts and all the claims have been established.”

    https://archive.org/details/energy-invention-suppression/page/9/mode/2up

    In 1998, Stan was at a restaurant with his brother and a few Belgian investors.

    They were about to sign a multi-million dollar deal, so they raised their glasses and made a toast to celebrate.

    At that Meyer suddenly became violently ill. He ran out of the restaurant, fell down in the street, and started vomiting. His brother ran after him. His final words were, “They poisoned me.”

    Steve Robinette, the lead detective on the case, collected the testimonies of everyone in the parking lot, including the final disturbing words of a man immediately identified as Stanley Meyer, a citizen of Grove City. His brother Stephen was one of the four at the table, and he heard the words spoken at the end of his life. Robinette ordered a toxicology analysis, which gave no significant results, and he also spoke to the coroner, who attributed his death to a brain aneurysm, consistent with previous episodes of hypertension. https://tcct.com/news/2020/11/the-mysterious-death-of-stanley-meyer-and-his-water-powered-car/

    – Mark Adams National Security Commentator