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The axial flow machine now used in most commercial aviation was first proposed in Paris in 1853.

No commercial development whatsoever for 90 years.

After massive governmental spending in the 1940s GTs were developed enough to become a commercial success.

We see the same thing with Stirling except the time lag is 200 years.

The Swedes spent a lot of taxpayer money and developed a 200 bar engine for their submarines which was further developed by Sandia [more gummint funding] and a utility, San Diego Gas and Electric [quasi gummint].

Some transportation breakthroughs might be done privately, i. e.,the wheel motor, but it's crazy to think that all energy solutions can be developed in the garage following the software model.

Bret Cahill

You sound like a typical leftist: don't really understand technology or economics, yet determined to have dominant political control over both.

John

Anyone, good or evil, can prevail when his opponents all cut and run from the issues.

Politics is a lot like that PepsiCo story where the secretary who was "too busy" to give a complaint to company lawyers. It was a dumb case. Two guys claimed that they invented bottled water or some such nonsense. It was easy to win but PepsiCo's lawyers never heard about the complaint and never made an appearance in court.

The bottled water guys won by default and the judge ordered PepsiCo to pay them over a billion to the plaintiffs.

Bret Cahill

"95% of life is just showing up."

-- Woody Allen

The first two are pre-requisites for the third.

Wheel motors are not a breakthrough. vis Lohner Porsche. Hub motors. Over 100 years ago.

Nobody can prevail over evil physical limits.

Everything was a breakthrough once upon a time.

Talking about unsprung weight!

Bret cahill

Oh really? There was a lot of private enterprise developing gas turbines and a great deal of competition within the industry. The physical limits of early implementations were understood and were known to be resolvable by using more esoteric materials.

We already know the dead ends, The fundamental, physical limits.

Nope. it just speeds up people who don't know any better, and thhose seeking to profit from ignorance, making some dough.

Just no commercial success stories until _after_ the massive gummint funding.

Which only happened _after_ massive gummint spending.

Yup.

Bret Cahill