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To: djf
I really do hate to be such a turd in the punch bowl, as it were, but I don’t want to see anyone throw money away on useless endeavors either. There are plenty of people that will string you along and tell you you’ve got a real winner idea, and take as much of your money as they can manage in the process.

Building a prototype will require a good machine shop, some casting, and even perhaps some rapid prototyping machines. They will gladly take your money and build anything you want, all the while keeping you as pumped up about it as long as you have any money left.

It may sound odd, but actually, my feelings on the matter are quite the opposite of my tone thus far. I really wish your idea was as useful and revolutionary as you want it to be. It’s just that cold hard physics and mechanical engineering stands in the way.

But if I may, I’d like to add an addendum to all my previous posts. A counter, of sorts, to all the negativity.

Don’t give up! Keep thinking new ideas and designing new things. If you try long enough, and keep at it, I have no doubt you come up with something new and remarkable to market, that will benefit many people and make you obscenely rich in the process. This one is just not it.

But don’t ever give up on you dreams, it’s people like you who are willing to take risks and dare to try new things that makes our country great.

62 posted on 09/14/2008 8:53:03 PM PDT by Jotmo (I Had a Bad Experience With the CIA and Now I'm Gonna Show You My Feminine Side - Swirling Eddies)
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To: Jotmo

Well, believe it or not, I appreciate all comments, positive or negative.

As I said early on part of this is sort of an “outreach”. I have alot of tools and routinely take things apart to fix them, or use my Dremel to manufacture replacement parts for things, or work on cars or motors.

But I simply do not have the extensive machine shop things. Nor do I know about the methods, the benefits or drawbacks of various manufacturing techniques.

But my thought is it is either:

A new idea, AND is feasible, AND it has applications or
it’s not new, it is not feasible, or it has no applications.

But without having even a simple prototype, I’m sorta stuck, and will end up wondering forever.

Just seems to me that the reversal of direction of the pistons in a standard combustion engine isn’t as “smart” an idea as this.

A very simple, passive rotor.


63 posted on 09/14/2008 10:15:02 PM PDT by djf (This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around...)
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