Posted by donjr on November 22, 2013 at 10:23:51 from (71.246.65.138):
In Reply to: Hydrogen power? posted by George Marsh on November 22, 2013 at 04:53:47:
Back some thirty years ago, there was a local guy by the name of Dick Kipp. I believe he is now dead, but he had an invention in a barn about three miles from here that was claimed to produce enough hydrogen to keep an engine (part of the machine) running constantly after starting it. Although I never saw it, several friends, who I know are still here, were raised as foster kids by Kipp, and they have seen the unit run.
When Kipp was about to go public with the unit, a large force of Feds, armed with writs and orders, swept into the barn, and confiscated all of the hardware, prints and associated documents, loaded it into a truck and left. Dick, and his associates, were told that the operating pressures were too high, and if there was any more said or claimed about the machine, he, and anyone else, would be subject to arrest under espionage laws and would likely 'disappear'.
No more was said about the machine. Kipp moved, and I believe has since passed away. A couple of the kids are still here, but the machine has never been mentioned again.
I now often wonder if it might not have been a great power plant for an ETD....
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