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In the early 70s an Australian guy by the name of Sarich developed an orbital engine that could get 100+ mpg. It was all over the news here in Australia. It came at a time when the middle east oil embargo was on and people were looking at ways to reduce our consumption of fossil fuel. Sarich's engine was bought by Shell and the more hopeful of people here were excited and believed we would see a production run of cars fitted with this engine.If,...IF,..this is real, why is this not being screamed over every news channel? Why is this not being talked about on every talk show?
Cheap, producible fuel that has zero carbon emissions? Can go straight into your tank right now, as is? With no engine modifications?
And it wasn't on the news this evening?
I don't buy it. I've been fooled too many times in the past over "NEW DISCOVERY TO REVOLUTIONIZE ENERGY" reports, just to have them fade into the background, never to be heard from again.
I have a Popular Mechanics issue from 1978, and on the front cover it pictures this engine that was supposed to get over 100 miles per gallon. It wasn't just theoretical, the engine was supposed to have been actually built and operating at publication, and working just fine.
Then,.....nothing.
Sometime around 1983 my father I wrote to Pop Mechanics about that engine. We never received a reply, and I still have that issue in my library. It's in my "Fiction Written To Sell Copies" section.
And that's probably what this is.