Moller Skycar for $3.5 Million

"Roger" wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:37:59 GMT, Anthony W
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Kyle Boatright wrote:
"Don Hammer" wrote in message
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Moler is like Jim Bede. Great at raising money for his pie-in-the-sky
ideas. After at least ten years, you'd think he'd have something
other than a sortof mockup. Where's the beef?


Try 30+ years. Also, his website indicates he's spent $100 million.

I find it amazing that mainstream media still pimps his wares from time
to
time, given that he's 30 years and $100 million into the project and has
Zero results other than a display only model with a pretty paint job.

PT Barnum would be so proud...

I'm suprised the feds haven't busted him for fraud by now...

Are you kidding? The feds and NASA think the basic idea is great and
actually have a program to develop something along those lines. Can
you imagine the air traffic if even one percent of the drives had
something like that?

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


I wonder if the Feds and NASA really think that? I seem to remember that
Moler has gotten federal grants for some of his work, but all that takes is
a friendly congressman to bury an appropriation in a spending bill. Trust
me, if you know the right people, it ain't hard to do.

In my professional career, the company I work for entered into a partnership
of sorts with a developer of alternate energy sources. After a while, we
ended the relationship because it became apparent that they didn't have a
useful product to offer. Instead, the President of the company had enough
REALLY GOOD political contacts to get Federal Grants which would have kept
his phoney baloney project well funded until he retired, even though the
product (essentially vaporware) didn't have a leg to stand on once you
dissected the thermodynamics and the ratios of energy consumed versus energy
produced...

KB