contact with chief chad fuhrmannHi, Chief Chad,

Hi, Chief Chad,

As I read your mail on Friday 11.6 morning I became really excited!

I thought that possibly you might be interested in my idea. I hope that you are the right man at the right time to promote my idea of using wind energy to produce hydrogen as an alternative renewable fuel.

Last year I thought that a sails catamaran could drive a turbo generator by its motion in the ocean's water [there would be the motion of the water relative to the catamaran's motion]. The electric power would be used to separate water into hydrogen through electrolysis. The hydrogen would be stored using new technologies, as car fuel.

As I begun to learn more about my idea I found that 1982 a person named Robert Salomon patented this idea, but it wasn't realized, perhaps because at this time fuel was cheap and nobody talked about the greenhouse effect!

But , a few month ago my partner found that a person named Moshe Meller patented the same idea, but I failed to find out what happened to his invention, nor did I succeed in contacting him.

And- I have an idea that might greatly improve the whole system.

I have 2 different ideas to use the waves energy, it seems to me important, because when it gets stormy, the storm will create high waves with lot of kinetic energy! Well, I have 2 friends that help me with advices, both of them are aerodynamic engineers so their maritime knowledge and experience is more theoretical. To promote my idea, a person like you is needed!

The success of the idea depends if there will be a huge fleet of such ships, each with minimum 10000 square m'. The bigger -the better!, I thought that there is no real problem to enlarge a catamaran about 200 m' length and about 50 m' distance between the 2 hulls but they told me that enlarging that much requires a profound research, and they claim that no investors will be ready to invest in r&d if there is an option for buying a ship " from the shelf".

I think that designing a new huge catamaran is necessary ,because it may change the whole feasibility calculation!, and most important of all : My friends claim that combining 2 different technologies on one hydrogen producing ship will be inefficient ,even harmful, but since I found not only the technology for hydrogen production ,but I offer a revolutionary way to create enlarged and enforced structures using new materials I think that it might double the feasibility for the whole project!

What do you think - will this challenge you, even though it isn't exactly what you were talking about?

Azi [azriel nativ]

my e-mail is: vitaniza@nir-david.org.il