Posted not that long ago on another web page or BLOG :
Hi folks,
This new idea for high speed, high altitude, solar powered Cargolifter airships is the ultimate investors dream. You can say such a design could be used for anything at all. Eg Cargo or passengers, Fuel free greenies ferry service, HAA, Hybrid airship and military jobs. You name it, this is the way ahead!!
As long as you define cargo as one thin pilot and his small lunchbox, high speed as more than 10 mph, high altitude as above a few thousand feet and flying as something that you only do on calm sunny days, in the small print this could be a real investment gem. Almost as good a return possible as the old real Cargolifter fiasco in Germany, may their greenhouse project rest in peace.
See. http://www.airshipblimp.com & http://www.airship.me
Regards
Bond, James Bond.
This new idea for high speed, high altitude, solar powered Cargolifter airships is the ultimate investors dream. You can say such a design could be used for anything at all. Eg Cargo or passengers, Fuel free greenies ferry service, HAA, Hybrid airship and military jobs. You name it, this is the way ahead!!
As long as you define cargo as one thin pilot and his small lunchbox, high speed as more than 10 mph, high altitude as above a few thousand feet and flying as something that you only do on calm sunny days, in the small print this could be a real investment gem. Almost as good a return possible as the old real Cargolifter fiasco in Germany, may their greenhouse project rest in peace.
See. http://www.airshipblimp.com & http://www.airship.me
Regards
Bond, James Bond.
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OUR THOUGHTFUL RESPONSE , DATED circa 1902 :
Good Day, Auto-Mobile Enthusiasts,
This new proposal for the design and construction of Mercedes-Benz Auto-Mobiles is the ultimate investor's fantasy. Apparently, these German dreamers are claiming that Mercedes-Benz Auto-Mobiles can be used for anything at all, e.g., carrying and conveying freight or passengers. civilian or even military purposes. Name it, this is being touted to be the way ahead !!
As long as you define cargo as Madame and her one shopping bag of goods purchased at a downtown merchant ; high speed as three miles an hour (not as fast as one good Shire horse ; distance as (what are these auto-mobiles achieving now?) under five miles ; travel defined as moving slowly along a flat road surface that has been carefully smoothed for her convenience directly from the Quackenbush Department Store to Madame's house ; and shopping expeditions as something you do only on sunny days. ... Oh, and factor in the weight of the Auto-Mobile Operator (I'm confident that Madame will never agree to becoming an engineer and operating the vehicle herself) and the oil or other preposterous substances needed to stoke the fires , which might --- might ! --- carry Madame and her newly acquired valuables for the advertised five mile range of operation. Children will run alongside, laughing and spinning their hoops. Oh, dear, there's a large area of mud from yesterday's rain deposited on the surface. Perhaps the children will help brush up the surfaces with the pails and shovels from their latest trip to the seashore, so that the wheels will carry the vehicle smoothly without jolting her or the Operator of this preposterous entourage. ...
And where will this oil-substance come from ? Please do not laugh, good Readers ! ... from the lands of the Sheik of Araby, where apparently large quantities of this terrible, slimy, sticky material is now being extracted from out of the ground by the hundreds of gallons... apparently, a chancy thing at best !
... but wait. We've just learned that this oil-for-fuel cannot be utilized in its natural state ! It must first be "re-fined" into Gas-o-lene --- what a terrible trade name for this dangerously explosive fuel --- after it is pumped out of the soil in the Middle East
[Query for the investor : who owns this barren desert wasteland? Will they willingly put up with English adventurers roaming their land seeking supplies of oil ?]. ... and in what vessels will it be carried from the sandy desert to the Refinery and thence to Madame's horse stables [where else to store it until it is (oh, so, carefully) poured into the onboard storage tank thoughtfully provided by the Mercedes-Benz manufactory?]
... Oh, wait, this Auto-Mobile must also now carry not only Madame, her Operator, and the weight of this machine, but also the fuel ... calculated by our best scientists as ten gallons (a day's supply) at six pounds per gallon --- another sixty pounds !
Hark ! What was that terrible explosive sound ? No ! Not the continual deafening bang-bang-rattle of the propelling mechanism . Air has leaked out of the rubber tyres supporting the vehicle ! The whole support mechanism is now compromised. Will Madame have to carry along a mechanical compressor to pump atmospheric air back into this tyre ? Is she expected to walk home from this desolate landscape with the goods that she has acquired in her shopping ?
But then, what is the advantage to building and purchasing this Auto-Mobile, if it is to be subjected to these random stops, fits, and starts ?
Gentlemen (and Ladies) --- please consider all the impossible obstacles mentioned above --- and much more as the mechanism is unbelievably complex, constructed of a melange of unavailable iron and steel parts, certainly NOT obtainable at your local stable or smithy .
We won't even go into consideration of this Chimera as an investment ! ... and neither will you, if you are not taken in by these Prussian Charlatans and their Arab co-conspirators.
Dear Friends, stick to your beautiful and trustworthy Draft Horses.
With only your best interests at heart, I remain, yours, etc.
James Stock
James Stock, of Percival, Stock, & Fotheringly, Investment Counsel
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