Submitted to Letters to the Editor of the New York Times Magazine:

If we might refer to Jon Gertner’s article, “Capitalism to the Rescue - The New New Economy,” from the October 5, 2008 issue of the New York Times Magazine, regarding the work of a Silicon Valley venture-capital firm.

I know Menlo and Sand Hill Road quite well; for any start-up, this is a long distance from the historical landmark garage where HP began, even though it is perhaps only a mile or more away. A venture capitalist can serve both inventors and the green community very well, but reading the article led me to jump back to that charming garage in it’s upscale residential neighborhood of Palo Alto.

I had to ask, just where have all the Mr. Hewletts and Mr. Packards gone, almost like a song from the 60’s. What about the life and fate of the many inventors who pass through the Silicon portals. Ask any inventor what the most difficult task was for them; surely the answer would have nothing to do with the activity of inventing. You have an idea, then you have a product - what’s next? I am sure Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers do excellent work, but don’t any inventors go it alone? Form, create, and establish their own companies? Yes, the intention is there, but you might say, “Money?” It always goes back to money.

In the article, am I correct in remembering that the only individual inventor mentioned (Segway excluded) was K.R. Sridhar - a garage story from Arizona - it was a good thing to put a name/face to his invention. I did have my concerns when it was mentioned that the product was a small fuel cell/generator powered by hydrogen, for home use by someone who was off the grid - his primary interest is for other countries where electricity is a shortfall.

My worry is that hydrogen is extremely combustible. I picture a mountain home powered by this product; if there was a simple house fire, the entire building would go up like a bomb, and then a forest fire. For use in a remote area, user malfunction could easily be possible, and a call for help more difficult than a casual trip to Home Depot.

The same result would be true for a car, powered by natural gas. It has been described that with a rear-end collision (natural gas in a container in the trunk area), the vehicle would be incinerated - no survivors - and the fire could/would immediately radiate across the street to other cars and buildings - a conflagration would ensue.

With Mr. Sridhar’s proposal, you put in natural gas (or ethanol) and get electricity out, with “very low carbon emissions.” This removes the need for oil but nevertheless requires other fuels. He says it can run for 6,000 hours (that’s 250 days) nonstop.

But what about a generator that can run at 100% efficiency (never hot) from the time you turn it on until “you” decide to turn it off. Where producing electricity would release zero carbon emissions, while using no oil and no battery recharge. How about that.

There is now an invention that can do all this. The inventor, Peter Sumaruck has several full-size prototypes and he is currently building one for a major industrial application customer - no R& D necessary.

Mr. Sumaruck also has an application for 18 wheel trucks. The largest truck possible can run for an entire year on 6 gallons of gas (no diesel) - gas only for ignition…no other fuel is necessary. A normal battery is still used for truck lights, etc…but no fuel is ever needed to power the engine.

How is this possible? The key principle of this invention is the Law of Thermodynamics. Mr. Sumaruck has disproved this law - he holds the patents. This traditional law of physics states that no energy can ever be created; you only get out what you put in. Mr. Sumaruck puts in a minute amount of gas for ignition and he gets thousands fold back in return. Where does the increase of power take place? In the onboard computer.

Some people say this is impossible. That is because they were taught to believe the original thermodynamics theory. If they - or you - watch the Mr. Sumaruck’s process unfold, everyone is/will be a believer, as I am. Sounds like religion? It’s way better than that.

This invention makes oil, natural gas, biofuels, nuclear power, coal, hydro, wind, all redundant. In the Gertner article, one of the venture capatalist‘s clients, the CEO of Austra, Bob Fishman, stated, we want to go after gas and coal and displace them.” But his product uses “mirrors to concentrate solar energy on water pipes, etc…” This sounds very primitive (and it is already being done in Israel), compared to Mr. Sumaruck’s Zero-Amp Technology, where we live in a world of computers - why then, not make electricity with use of a computer.

I know Mr. Sridhar has put so very many of his genius-hours into his invention; he wants to take it around the world, but now we have technologically superior concepts. The world only turns one direction - forward. We must move with it. Mr. Sridhar told the author Mr. Gertner he expects to have a commercial product in a year or two. Mr. Sumaruck isn’t waiting - he has a product right now. And he is already working on miniaturization for anything moved by energy - let’s say, your vacuum cleaner. Warren Buffet may soon wonder why he invested so much money in battery manufacture in China.

Other than the cost of the technology, Mr. Sumaruck’s power source costs practically nothing for the user. Just imagine how this will cut away at the years of deprivation in developing countries; this will be the great equalizer, enabling each individual to truly rise to their own level of mental and physical ability - individual power at it’s highest, most creative and most efficient level. Of course, there will be some individuals who will not appreciate this. The status quo is gone…how will they ever manage - I shake my head.

When you consider the naysayers and possible non-believers, those were the people who disbelieved Edison…let’s see, humm, I think he also worked with electricity.

Sincerely

Charlotte Wilson  www.worldviewopinion.com    charlotte@worldviewopinion.com