musictomyears
Skilled Investigator
CapnG said:Here's a new twist on an old chestnut- The electric car:
http://zenncars.com/
These cars are manufactured in Quebec and yet it is illegal to own and operate one in Canada.
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
When Rick Mercer jokingly remarked that he wanted to "make driving noises", I was reminded of an observation I made years ago. I honestly believe that most people associate driving cars with making lots of noise and producing smelly gases. If a car doesn't do either, there surely must be something wrong with it. It doesn't compute. It seems weird, unnatural. Perhaps a psychological hang-up, left over from the days of riding horses.
Try getting car enthusiast exited about clean fuels and quiet cars. It's like expecting Eskimos to move south and grow oranges.
The difficulties of getting even regular electric cars approved by the authorities give you a hint of the outright hostility that inventors face when they try to patent and promote technologies that operate outside conventional physics. For a recent example, study the life and tragic demise of Stanley Meyer. He had careers with NASA, the US Air Force and the Battelle Institute. If he was still alive today, we would be running our cars on water. We would also be powering the grid and heat our homes with water.
What Meyer experienced is not unusual by any means. Take a look at what happened to Victor Schauberger or Nikola Tesla. Different times, same story.