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Subject:Re: New Engine?
From:Mike Collum
Date:Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:07:58 -0400

Here's the link to the video where he talks about the "Diesel" test and
150 miles per gallon.  The engine for an automobile is shown to be about
the size of a large can of baked beans.

http://www.angellabsllc.com/video/autoShowVideo2.wmv

Mikel

John Bange wrote:
> On 8/16/06, Mike Collum <collum@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Checking out the links ... they said they did a test running it on 100%
>> soy bean oil ... with estimated fuel milage that's hard to believe.
>
>
> Really? Gimme a link! That's more than they had 2 years ago. All I
> could find was a vague statement that they "like to use" biodiesel
> type fuels, and that they had a hybrid MYT in a Ford Focus that they
> "can't talk about". It seems weird to me, but there seems to be a LOT
> of stuff they're keeping hush-hush. I mean, they have a PATENT on the
> design, so what is there to keep secret-- other than maybe that they
> don't have all the bugs worked out yet. I just get this weird feeling
> like someone's going for my wallet when on the one hand they show up
> at auto shows trumpeting the virtues of their design, but when asked
> for an actual working prototype or the name of a major company that
> WANTS one, they clam up and say it's "secret".
>
> --
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>