Fwd: Electric DeLorean not form email

[Seth Murray <sethm@WPI.EDU>]

Hi All -

	Sorry to bring this all up again, but yesterday I replied to Doug 
Littlefield's form email and he replied to that with the following 
message, which is not a form letter as far as I can tell (but just as 
interesting as the last one!):

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Doug Littlefield" <dougl@pshift.com>
> Date: Fri Aug 30, 2002  8:45:28  AM US/Eastern
> To: "Seth Murray" <sethm@WPI.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Electric DeLorean/Self-recharching
>
> Good Day Seth:
>  
> Thanks for your message, most of it was a pleasure to see.
>  
> One question, how can all of you use that overworked phrase perpetual 
> motion ?
> We don't claim that, we don't believe in that ... for your information 
> I fully expect
> a change of batteries will be necessary as all batteries have a useful 
> life as
> regards their ability to hold a charge at all ... no matter where that 
> charge comes
> from. With the cheap batteries we are using ($56 at Wal-Mart) I would 
> think, at
> best, a change every couple of years might be necessary.
>  
> But that aside, think of this ... what if this device can assist even 
> only to the degree that
> a vehicle can drive, say 800 miles (that number is pulled out of the 
> air for this discussion
> only) without plugging in .... in your estimation would that not be 
> significant for the
> advancement of EV utilization ?
>  
> As for some of the charges, not necessarily from you, that we are 
> frauds and (or)
> scam artists...I'd buy that "potential" IF we wanted anything from any 
> of you ... we
> want no money, we will not charge admission and no one can invest in 
> us if they
> wanted to...we will sell no "kits" and we offer no licenses.
>  
> What we "want" is for as many people as will come to see us succeed, 
> or fail, on the merits
> of what we truly believe in. BTW it's taken 17 years, many failures 
> and a great deal of our
> own money to get to next Saturday).
>  
> I truly hope we "amaze" you ! (I know that comes as no surprise !!)
>  
> Sincerely,
>  
> Doug Littlefield 

Sounds to me like Doug doesn't understand the phrase "perpetual 
motion," how batteries work, or how much energy it takes to drive 800 
miles.  Here's an interesting thought though - what if, like the 
DeLorean in Back to the Future, this thing had a small nuclear reactor 
on board which would have a enough fuel in it to last the life of the 
car ( "1.21 gigawatts!" )?  I know that idea sounds crazy, but my guess 
is that they do have SOME sort of onboard energy-producing device which 
needs "no" fuel (ie, has it's own supply which will last a while).  
Just a thought.

		-Seth


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