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Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design [message #67753 is a reply to message #67751]

Fri, 18 December 2009 07:11

Gary Casey

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People always seem to be attracted to conspiracy theories. One explanation I have heard is that the human mind doesn't like to think that big things come from small events. THE President being shot by one looney firing from an open window? There just MUST be more to it than that....
I was at GM during the early 70's fuel crises where we were being criticized for conspiring against the small-time inventor. I was responsible for the evaluation of many of the outside submissions and I couldn't detect any such conspiracy. Skepticism, yes. One inventor had an engine that used 100% EGR. How could it burn fuel if the only thing going in was exhaust? As proof he had a Chevy with a gate valve on the tail pipe and with the engine idling he could close off the valve and it would keep running. "Just a little more development to make it run at any speed." We took the car and welded up the exhaust system to verify that there was no leakage. Guess what - close the valve and it quit. He went away. There certainly was no "100mpg carburetor." We evaluated everything possible and we would have used it if there was such a thing. No conspiracy.
Gary

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The other thing that makes me wonder, "they" always say that the car companies bought the patents to keep others from building it... even the inventor. The complaint is the inventor wanted everyone to be using his (insert item here). Most of the time it was so long ago that the patents would have expired, so why doesn't the inventor publish the plans now? (Or even build the item?)
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Mike Miller
`73 26' X Painted D.
`78 23' Birchaven
Hillsboro, OR

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		interesting new engine design By: fred v on Wed, 16 December 2009 21:34
		Re: interesting new engine design By: hertfordnc on Wed, 16 December 2009 22:29
		Re: interesting new engine design By: ljdavick on Wed, 16 December 2009 22:47
		Re: interesting new engine design By: Chr$ on Wed, 16 December 2009 22:43
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: Gary Casey on Thu, 17 December 2009 06:45
		Re: interesting new engine design By: fred v on Thu, 17 December 2009 07:44
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: GMC_LES on Thu, 17 December 2009 10:32
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: ljdavick on Thu, 17 December 2009 10:53
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: hertfordnc on Fri, 18 December 2009 06:16
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: mike miller on Fri, 18 December 2009 06:36
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: fred v on Fri, 18 December 2009 06:52
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: Gary Casey on Fri, 18 December 2009 07:11
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: USAussie on Fri, 18 December 2009 12:37
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: Steven Ferguson on Fri, 18 December 2009 08:18
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: GMC_LES on Fri, 18 December 2009 08:29
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: ljdavick on Fri, 18 December 2009 10:47
		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: jhb1 on Fri, 18 December 2009 12:18
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		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: Matt Colie on Fri, 18 December 2009 16:55
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		Re: [GMCnet] interesting new engine design By: Matt Colie on Sat, 19 December 2009 09:11
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