COZBY ENTERPRISES, INC.

Addendum to: "Evidence of the Department of Energy’s Costly Duplicity"

John A. Cozby August 1, 2009 rev. 7.19.12

     The Department of Energy’s anti-Rankine bias is covered in the preceding pages, but the Department of Energy is not alone. As early as March 20, 1970 the Department of Transportation tipped its anti-Rankine prejudiced hand. On that day Carlos Villareal of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration of the U. S. Department of Transportation telephoned Bill Lear from Washington, D. C. Bill Lear was in Reno, Nevada. . . . . Villareal cried, "Bill . . . We want you to try it so we can say steam won’t work!"* It was the distinct intention of the Department of Transportation to discredit steam as far back as 42 years ago! That was seven years before the DOE report, "An assessment of the Technology of Rankine Engines For Automobiles", was published. The Department of Transportation was not interested in scientific advancement or the truth. They were too occupied with pushing their own preconceived agenda.  Such mentality is hard to overcome.

     In 1982 Cozby sent a disclosure to the Office of Energy Related Inventions which was under the National Bureau of Standards of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Our disclosure went to an investigator in the Office of Energy Related Inventions. I had some cordial conversations with the older gentleman who seemed genuinely interested, understanding, and sympathetic. On my last conversation the gentleman indicated that he understood what I was saying, but then he replied that: "Off the record, it really didn’t matter what we showed them or how good it was, because steam is dead."

     Sometime afterward I was given the name and address of persons within the Department of Defense to contact. We sent the Department of Defense a disclosure. We received a reply from them that showed that they had little understanding of and less regard for advanced steam power. They stated that, besides, the military had already tried steam and they were not interested. The military, Department of Defense, is not interested in new and novel innovation, advanced Rankine, or progress. (Perplexing, troubling, frightening)

     The Environmental Protection Agency complained grievously about serious air pollution. This agency should have been most interested in viable solutions, as they claimed that they were. I tried and tried to get the attention of the EPA. Their silence was deafening. Advanced Rankine does not seem to be in their vocabulary. This is the same agency that, it seems, can ignore and turn a deaf ear to even the U. S. Supreme Court. It is hardly surprising that they don’t hear us.

     With the concerted opposition of the Departments of Energy, Transportation, Commerce, and Defense, and the Environmental Protection Agency it is extremely difficult to make progress in the area of advanced Rankine cycle engine technology. Advanced Rankine technology is good technology; it is needed technology.

     (This addendum is written to show how deeply ingrained the bias against advanced Rankine technology within these government entities is. Because of this demonstrated bias, none of these groups should be entrusted with such an important a matter as advanced Rankine cycle engine technology research and development. An institutionalized negative attitude is impossible to purge, work with, or overcome.)

*from: They Said It Couldn’t Be Done, by Victor Boesen, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1971