Time: Fri Nov 01 16:51:48 1996
To: bmccurdy@iamerica.net (Brenda McCurdy)
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Alcohol for fuel
Cc: byronw@pop.dn.net
Bcc:
At 04:28 PM 11/1/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Paul,
>
>I read an email message from you about alcohol fuels being preferable to oil
>based fuels. Can you tell me where I can get information on producing an
>alcohol based fuel? I live on a farm, and we raise milo and sometimes corn,
>wheat, or oats.
>
>Thanks for your assistance.
>
>Sincerely,
>Brenda McCurdy
>
Dear Brenda,
See writings of Henry Ford,
inventor of the automotive
assembly line, on the subject.
See also the following:
/s/ Paul Mitchell
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So you think we have an energy problem? No, we have a political
problem.
I want to relate to you some facts concerning various suppressed
energy devices and the difficulty in bringing this information to
the public. I hope that you can add some additional information.
On October 1, 1990, I began to keep a list of people contacted
concerning energy devices. The list is now 51 pages long. The
list includes the President and vice-president; 121 Members of
Congress and other politicians; 21 government and state
agencies; 215 members of the print and electronic media; 62
environmental groups; The President of United Auto Workers and
14 other UAW officials; The President of The American Automobile
Association; many members of the clergy, including Mr. Pat
Robertson, and also the people at Christian Science Monitor; and
numerous others.
My own Congressman, Representative Frank Wolf, will not respond
to a letter and 182 pages of documentation that I put in his hand
on August 25, 1993. I wonder just who he does respond to? Could
it be that money talks?
Note: In several of the following references information is
followed by a (?) symbol, or a statement that the original
material was stolen from me in 1986. This is because in those
cases I am working from very poor copies of the original
material. In 1986, I was visited by an intern reporter for the
Washington Times who wanted to take my material back to the paper
to make copies. What he did was steal my material and take it
back to college with him. Had it not been for an Editor at the
Washington Times, and the Dean at this intern's school, I would
have lost a lot of my collection of energy material.
Here are the facts. Please verify this information for yourself.
My comments are identified as:
[Comment: ]
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Energy Information, by Byron Wine, May 24, 1996: Page 1 of 9
1. Some folks at Shell Oil Co. wrote "Fuel Economy of the
Gasoline Engine" (ISBN 0-470-99132-1); it was published by John
Wiley & Sons, New York, in 1977.
[Comment: The Library of Congress (LOC), in September 1990, did
not have a copy of this book. It was missing from the files. I
bought my copy from Maryland Book Exchange around 1980 after I
was informed by a professor that it was used as an engineering
text at the University of West Virginia.]
A. On page 42 Shell Oil quotes the President of General Motors
who in 1929 predicted 80 MPG by 1939.
B. Between pages 221 and 223 Shell writes of their achievements:
49.73 MPG around 1939; 149.95 MPG with a 1947 Studebaker in
1949; 244.35 MPG with a 1959 Fiat 600 in 1968; 376.59 MPG with
a 1959 Opel in 1973.
2. The book "Secrets of the 200 MPG Carburetor" is by Allan
Wallace and was available, about 198(?), from Premier
Distributing, 1775 Broadway, NY, NY, 10019. Page 18 has
photocopies of three 1936 tests by the Ford Motor Co. (Canada) of
the Pogue carburetor (U.S. Patent # 2,026,798). The worst case
test achieved about 171 MP(US)G.
[Comment: I can not provide any other publishing information
because the book is among the material stolen from me in 1986. My
copy of page 18 is very poor.]
3. Argosy Magazine, August 1977, has a five page article about
Tom Ogle and the media witnessed test of the "Oglemobile". Tom
Ogle, on that test run, achieved more than 100 MPG in a 4,600
pound 1970 Ford Galaxie.
[Comment: When I attempted to find a copy of that Argosy
Magazine, it was missing from LOC files in 1980. Argosy ceased
publication, I was informed, a short time after the Ogle article
was published. I could not find a copy of that Argosy issue at
any library within 200 miles of my home. An Editor at the company
that purchased Argosy, found and mailed a copy to me. While
attempting to verify statements in the article, I spoke with Doug
Lenzini(sp?) with the El Paso Times. Mr. Lenzini informed me that
he knew Tom Ogle, and the Oglemobile achieved more than 200 MPG.
When I contacted the El Paso NBC affiliate that filmed the test
run described in the Argosy article, I was informed that the
person who had filmed the test had left the station and taken all
the records with him.]
A. The Ogle U.S. Patent, #4,177,779, has this statement "I have
been able to obtain extremely high gas mileages with the system
of the present invention installed on a V-8 engine of a
conventional 1971 American made automobile. In fact, mileage
rates in excess of one hundred miles per gallon have been
achieved with the present invention." According to the Argosy
article, a Shell Oil Co. representative asked Ogle what he would
Energy Information, by Byron Wine, May 24, 1996: Page 2 of 9
do if someone offered him $25 Million for the system. Ogle
responded "I would not be interested" He later said, "I've always
wanted to be rich, and I suspect I will be when this system gets
into distribution. But I'm not going to have my system bought up
and put on the shelf. I'm going to see this thing through--that I
promise." According to an article in The Washington Post Parade
Magazine, March 4, 1984, Tom Ogle died of a drug and alcohol
overdose in 1981. Other articles concerning Tom Ogle can be found
in the El Paso Journal, January 16, 1980, and also, The Hamilton
Spectator, June 24, 1978.
B. The Oglemobile, in simplification, ran on fumes extracted from
a heated tank in the trunk (See the Ogle patent.) A very simple
method of extracting gasoline fumes is described in a book,
published in 1900, "Gas Engine Construction". This book was
reprinted by Lindsay in 1986, ISBN 0-917914-46-5.
4. There are many U.S. Patents granted for vaporizing gasoline.
NASA Patent 3,640,256; General Electric Co. Patent 3,926,150;
Robinson Patent 4,003,969; Harpman Patent 4,023,538; Butler
Patent 4,068,636; Totten Patent 4,106,457.
[Comment: Pete, "The Tree Man", was researching the Fish
carburetor while staying in my home during the early 80's. He
later sent me a 6 page list with more than 240 U.S. Patent
numbers for vaporizing gasoline, other fuels and water.]
5. During the mid 70's, physicist Don Novak traveled all over the
U.S. lecturing and teaching in his seminars how to achieve 100
MPG. He also testified, October 15, 1979, before a Wichita, KS,
Congressional Committee on "Reinventing the Automobile".
[Comment: I have known Don for many years. Once he brought to my
home, in the late 70's, two carburetors; one got more than 200
MPG and the other more than 100 MPG. I contacted a local
politician, who lives in my town, and was on the Virginia Energy
Subcommittee. I tried to have this politician meet Don and see
the carburetors. The politician was not interested.]
6. In the London, England, Daily Telegraph, 10/20/83, on page 9,
there is an advertisement for a production Pugeot Diesel that
gets 52.3 MPG in urban driving. In the Washington Post, 9/19/83,
page 37(?) is the 1983 U.S. EPA fuel economy list of various
vehicles. The U.S. model Pugeot Diesel gets between 22 and 27
MPG. The Washington Times, 8/9/91, published an article, "Gas
saving engines hit streets in fall". This article is about two
engines, the Mitsubishi MVV engine, and the Honda VTEC-E.
According to the company spokesmen, the Mitsubishi will get up to
50 MPG; the Honda, up to 88 MPG.
[Comment: I visited a local Honda dealer and got a brochure on
the production automobile with the VTEC-E engine, the specified
MPG, as I recall, was 53 MPG. I know of no produced Honda that
gets 88 MPG. I have no information on the production Mitsubishi
Energy Information, by Byron Wine, May 24, 1996: Page 3 of 9
MVV engine. I wonder if there is something that happens to fuel
economy when an automobile is transported to the USA. Is it
possible that these engines "un-tweak" themselves during
transit?]
7. The U.S. Government supported (Grant No. DTNH22-91-Z-06014) a
study of automobile fuel economy by the National Academy of
Sciences. This study, "Automotive Fuel Economy--How Far Should We
Go?" (ISBN 0-309-04530-4), was used by the staff of my then
Congressman George Allen, to refute documentation proving that an
automobile had exceeded 376 MPG. Nowhere in this "fuel economy
study" is there any reference to the work of Shell Oil Co. or any
other reference that could refute the conclusion of this report.
The report concluded, Page 4, that a subcompact car might achieve
between 39 and 44 MPG by model year 2006. Many committee meetings
were held from May 15, 1991 to December 14, 1991, prior to the
April 1992 publication of this report. Prior to publication of
this report, I previously sent documentation to several
participants of these meetings. The documentation proved that
automobile fuel economies of between 49 and 376 MPG were
achieved. None of the participants responded to my letters.
Documentation was sent to: Jerry R. Curry, Administrator,
National Highway Safety Administration, on 3/16/91; Senator
Richard H. Bryan, on 3/7/91; Congressman Philip R. Sharp, on
2/18/91; Steve Plotkin, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S.
Congress, on 4/4/91; Charles Mendler, Energy Conservation
Collation, on 11/2/90; Fred Smith, Competitive Enterprise
Institute, on 4/16/91; Brian O'Neal, Center for Auto Safety, on
3/16/91; Clarence Ditlow, Executive Director, Center for Auto
Safety, on 1/6/92. Previous documentation was also sent to
members of organizations participating in these meetings, they
are: John Koenig, Product planning Manager, Toyota Motor Co., on
3/18/91; Peter Clausen, Union of Concerned Scientist, on
10/28/90; John Morrill, American Council for Energy Efficiency,
on 10/4/90. None of these people responded to my letters.
[Comment: I know that at least one of my letters was received.
The Union of Concerned Scientist keeps trying to get me to
support their organization.]
8. An article "Automakers Move Toward New Generation Of Greener
Vehicles" was published in "Chemical & Engineering News", August
1, 1994. This article is about "The Partnership for a New
Generation of Vehicles", a partnership between the U.S.
Government and the auto industry that has a goal of an 80 MPG
automobile by 2002.
[Comment: In 1992 a government funded study concluded that a
subcompact car might get between 39 and 44 MPG by model year 2006
(See #7 above). In 1994 the goal is 80 MPG by 2002. Is it
possible that someone read the Shell Oil book? Or could someone
have actually read my February 13, 1992 letter, and 95 pages of
documentation, sent to then Candidate Clinton?] I wrote,
September 8, 1994, to Deborah L. Illman, the author of the
article, and to the editor, Michael Heylin of Chemical &
Energy Information, by Byron Wine, May 24, 1996: Page 4 of 9
Engineering News, on September 11, 1994 . No response was
received from them. On September 11, 1994, I also wrote to Mary
L. Good, Under Secretary for Technology, (USA) Department of
Commerce. I received a response from Ms. Good. It was an undated,
unaddressed, form letter.
[Comment: I guess the fact that a vehicle could get 376 MPG or
burn water for fuel would not be a politically correct finding.
How could someone explain to the American people that it was
necessary to send more than 600,000 of our citizens to the
Mideast to defend oil wells if these facts were public
information?]
9. Hybrid Diesel/Electric Automobiles (A Diesel/Electric
locomotive uses the same principle.) The Manassas Journal
Messenger, April 4, 1981, has an article about a MG sports car
converted by San Diego State University. The car gets 110 MPG.
The Steven R. Reed Automobile Manufacturing Corp., Newport Beach,
CA, issued a press release dated February 14, 1983. This release
announces the February 23, 1983 showing of the 200 MPG, two
passenger, II Millennium Cruiser at the Ambassador Hotel. The
press release also states that the company will file "... a major
class-action lawsuit involving a considerable number of giant
American corporations within the automotive and petroleum
industries, plus numerous branches and agencies of the U.S.
Government responsible for regulating these companies."
[Comment: Don Novak informed me that when none of the major news
media attended the Millennium show, the company drove the car to
CBS Television, Los Angeles, and parked it on the lawn. No one
came out of the building to inspect the car. Don also stated that
the president of the Steven R. Reed Corp. has been in hiding for
some years.]
10. Mother Earth News, November/December 1977, has an article
"Can This Transmission Really Double Your Car's Mileage?". This
article is about a Ford Granada modified by Vincent Carman of
Portland, Oregon. In simplification, Mr. Carman removed the
transmission and drive shaft from the car and bolted a hydraulic
motor to the differential. He then bolted a hydraulic pump to the
engine to pressurize a storage tank. The storage tank is also
pressurized when the car brakes or slows down. The article states
that the U.S. Post Office is interested in a whole fleet of
vehicles using this principle. In 1990, after reading an article
in "Federal Times", I contacted Mr. Robert St.Francis, U.S.
Postal Service, who was searching for alternative fuels for use
by the Post Office. Mr. St.Francis said that he had never heard
of Mr. Carman. I wrote two letters, October 18 & 21, 1990, to Mr.
St.Francis concerning Mr. Carman's vehicle. I received no
response. Another article in Mother Earth News, March/April
1976,8(?), titled "This Car Travels 75 Miles on a Single Gallon
Of Gas", is about a project by the Minneapolis Minnesota's
Hennepin Vocational Technical Center that converted a Volkswagen
to a system similar to that of Mr. Carman. The idea for the
conversion came from a 1920 magazine article. The car, with a
Energy Information, by Byron Wine, May 24, 1996: Page 5 of 9
Bradley GT body and a 16 horsepower Tecumseh engine (The original
VW engine was too powerful), achieved more than 75 MPG at 70 MPH.
[Comment: Could we combine the technology of Tom Ogle, 200 MPG,
and the hydraulic drive cars and have a 400 MPG 4,600 pound car
?]
11. The St. Paul Pioneer News, August 22, 1990, has an article
about a group that 11 years previously modified a Dodge half-ton
pickup furnished by a local dealer. This modified truck got more
than 35 MPG. Test stopped on this modification when a member of
the group was told that he would receive a pair of cement boots
if testing continued.
12. Hydrogen fuel. There are many U.S. and foreign patents for
extracting hydrogen and oxygen gasses from water for use as a
fuel. Some Patents are: July 2, 1935, Garrett, # 2,006, 675;
April 3, 1945, Klein, # 2,373,032; February 25, 1975, Chambrin,
French Patent Request # 75 06619; July 6, 1976, owner unknown by
me, # 3,967,589 (This is a patent for an electrical power
generator that burns water); 1976, Horvath, # 3,980,053. This
statement is on the Horvath patent, "This invention relates to
internal combustion engines. More particularly it is concerned
with a fuel supply apparatus by means of which an internal
combustion engine can be run on a fuel comprised of hydrogen and
oxygen gasses generated on demand by electrolysis of water";
June 28, 1983, Meyer, # 4,398,981. Mr. Meyer has at least eight
other patents relating to hydrogen and oxygen gasses extracted
from water for fuel.
A. Popular Science, about 1978,9(?), published an article
"Hydrogen bus- could also heat its own garage". This article is
about the work of Dr. Helmut Buchner of Mercedes-Benz. He is
quoted " We are ready now. We could save our city of Stuttgart
over one million gallons of petroleum fuel a year by converting
its fleet of 300 urban busses to run on hydrogen. Heating--and
air conditioning--would be free spin-offs, consuming no extra
energy.".
B. Popular Science, March 1978(?), published an article "Hydrogen
-- demonstrates fuel of the future". This article is about the
work of Dr. Billings, Billings Energy Corp., Provo, Utah. and
others. The article states that a home, all the appliances, and
vehicles, can be run on hydrogen. Dr. Billings converted a
Cadillac Seville for duel fuel use. This Cadillac, burning
hydrogen, was in President Carter's inaugural parade.
[Comment: I had a photograph of Dr. Billings drinking the
exhaust, water, from one of his engines.]
13. Completely sealed reciprocating engines. I visited the patent
office years ago, when they still had the open stacks of "shoe
boxes". While there, I read the application files for the Papp
patent, #3,6(?)70,4944. Papp applied for a patent on his engine,
Energy Information, by Byron Wine, May 24, 1996: Page 6 of 9
and the patent office, after consultation with the old Atomic
Energy Commission, refused to give him a patent because his
device could not possibly work. Papp responded with test results,
photographs and depositions from, I think, 16 people. Papp said
that maybe the patent office didn't know how his device worked,
and that they also didn't know how the atomic bomb worked, but
used it anyway. This statement is on his patent "...2. To provide
a two cycle reciprocating engine which does not use fuel intake
valves or exhaust valves, does not require an air supply and does
not emit gasses. 3. To provide a precharged engine of the
character stated in item 2 capable of generating power for a
period of from 2,000 to over 10,000 hours continuously or until
mechanical breakdown without the addition of fuel injection of
air or discharge of gasses...".
A. Papp has a similar patent granted in 1984. Unfortunately, the
patent # is missing form the only sheet that I have.
B. Britt, August 31, 1976, has a patent, # 3,977,191, for a
similar sealed engine. In the patent application file, Britt
accuses the Patent Office of deliberately delaying his
application to give a major manufacturer time to file on top of
him.
14. Permanent Magnet Motor. Howard Johnson was granted U.S.
Patent # 4,151,431, for a motor that is powered only by permanent
magnets. An interesting thing about the first page of this patent
is the chart of a magnetic field VS electromechanical coupling.
The chart is from U.S. Patent # 4,151,432 which has nothing to do
with the Johnson patent. Science and Mechanics, Spring 1980,
published an article " Amazing Magnet-Powered Motor" about the
Johnson patent. The article tells of his difficulties in having
the device patented. The patent problem was solved when Johnson
took working models of his device to the patent office. The
magazine Science 83, May, published an article ridiculing
perpetual motion machines, one of them was the Johnson motor. The
Science article purports to quote from the prior Science and
Mechanics article about Johnson. Because I had both articles, I
compared them, then called the author of the Science 83 article.
When I stated that the information that he quoted was not in the
prior article, he hung up saying "I will not be interrogated by
you." The editor of Science 83 also declined to speak with me.
[Comment: Others have informed me that there are three other
permanent magnet motor patents.]
15. The Moray device. Tom Moray, in the late 20's, had a device
that could sit on a kitchen table and produce 50,000 Watts of
power from a field that surrounds the earth. The operation of
this device was endorsed by many people. Moray's son, John, after
the only copy of his father's book was stolen, wrote a book "The
Sea of Energy in which the Earth Floats". The book is about his
father's work. During the early 80's, I visited many
congressional offices in an unsuccessful attempt to have any
Member of Congress do something about the technology hidden from
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the American people. When I visited Congressman Ron Paul's
office, a staffer said to me "I have something that you should
read, come to my residence on Saturday." This staffer gave me a
letter to Congressman Paul from Tom Bearden, and the 40 page
document attached to the letter. The document is a book that Mr.
Bearden has written. In this book, Mr. Bearden states that the
Moray device could produce 1.5 megawatts of power. Also that the
Russians had adapted the Moray device to power a weapon. The
weapon statement is supported by a drawing from "Aviation Week
and Space Technology", July 28, 1980.
[Comment: Do you think that the local power company could justify
a price increase if the power came from a field around the earth?
This book was also missing from the LOC in 1990.]
16. The Energy Machine of Joe Newman. I have spoken with Joe many
times over several years. He has recently published the seventh
edition of "The Energy Machine of Joseph Newman" (ISBN 0-9613855-
7-7) The book is available from: Joseph Westly Newman, Route 1,
Box 52, Lucedale, Mississippi, 39452, Phone # (601)-947-7174.
[Comment: I have no doubts that his machine works as he describes
it. To learn of the problems that this man has had with "The
Establishment" read his book. Joe filed suit against the U.S.
Patent office because they would not grant him a patent.
According to Joe's book, pages 274 to 279, the Court appointed a
Special Master, Mr. William E. Schuyler, a former Commissioner of
the U.S. Patent Office , to advise the Court. The findings of the
Special Master were that Mr. Newman had invented a machine that
had more output than input. The Court refused to accept the
findings. I urge you to read this 471 page book. This machine is
not "bogus" as stated by others. On February 5, 1996, I was one
of several hundred people, in Mobile, AL, to see the Newman
Energy Machine in operation. The machine was pumping water while
running a power meter, similar to the one on your house,
backwards.]
17. Cold Fusion. Despite the rejection of some in the USA, cold
fusion is a going operation in other places. The monthly magazine
"New Energy News", P.O. Box 58639, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-8639,
has information on many successful results in cold fusion. The
magazine also has information on "free energy devices".
18. "The Energy Non-Crisis", published in 1980 by Worth
Publishing Co., P.O. Box, 1243, Wheatridge, CO 80033, is written
by Chaplain Lindsey Williams. Chaplain Williams was on the Alaska
Pipeline during the construction and got so fed-up with the
deliberate lies of the media, he came back to tour the "lower
48", and tell the truth. According to Chaplain Williams, (Chapter
16) Gull Island, has a pool of oil as big as, and maybe bigger,
than Purdhoe Bay. Our Government ordered ARCO "... to seal the
documents, withdraw the rig, cap the well, and not release the
information about the Gull Island find." A video tape of a speech
that Chaplain Williams gave to a group at Salt Lake City, about
Energy Information, by Byron Wine, May 24, 1996: Page 8 of 9
1980, is possibly available from: The National Center For
Constitutional Studies, 1-800-388-4512.
[Comment: I sent the Williams tape and a lot of other information
to our current Secretary of Energy. The response that I received,
after a second letter, was, essentially, no response.]
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I hope that this information will raise questions as to why we
are dependent on foreign oil. All our government has to do, to
take more money from our pockets, is to have an energy crisis or
raise the cost of energy. The only financial interest that I have
in any of above devices is that of a concerned consumer who is
tired of the deliberate lies and cover-ups.
/s/ Byron Wine, May 24, 1996
edited by Paul Mitchell, August 18,1996
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