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To: Gutterball who wrote (1561)	2/13/1998 11:01:00 AM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Respond to of 6464

I don't recall Joe saying he wanted to build windmills. Power generation is directly related to what he's doing with that Geo. There are large generators available using the same engine that's in the Metro. If the technology works in the car, applying it to those generators is a very logical step.

To: Gutterball who wrote (1561)	2/13/1998 11:02:00 AM
From: don roberson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6464

Good points but also you have to see it from the CEOs side. They are getting butchered in the media and on the internet. While he is trying to make arrangements, or unions with others, all this bad publicity is coming out. Its too early for him to have a PR signed up, that would take care of such things. I think it would be difficult for any human being to get "maligned" in the press and not try to speak from the other side. His company is based much on his reputation. I can imagine that some of the comments he made that he is getting blasted for came at a time of exhaustion. Its hard to stay cool. Yes. He needs to focus. If its a good product, he needs to just keep on trucking. But perhaps the trashing he is getting has him worried that he may just sink on that alone. I don't understand why his backers are not coming in with assistance in this area. Or perhaps we are dealing with a "one man show", which can prove disastrous. Look what Jobs did because of being stubborn. NOt good for company. Lets just hope FORD sees a better idea. If its anything close to what "Joe" is selling it as, they have to grab it.

To: Gutterball who wrote (1561)	2/13/1998 11:19:00 AM
From: Art Odell	Respond to of 6464

Can't you just see the delays before engine is actually built and ready to go for dyno time. Also, what is meant by "finalizing patent" --I've heard of submitting, filing, allowing, granted, and issued -- I don't know what finalizing means... Art

To: Gutterball who wrote (1561)	2/13/1998 12:53:00 PM
From: shashyazhi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6464

I was the person who brought windmills into the discussion. Mea Culpa! No one at B.A.T. International ever said a word about windmills. My analogy to the windmill farms near Palm Springs was meant to give an example of grass roots power generation, similiar to what is implied in the Business Wire article yesterday. If I have misinformed anyone, or confused any investor, I am sorry. If anyone has bought BAAT shares based upon my attempts to clarify the possibilities of pulse charge technology, again, I am sorry. I do not represent BAT International in any way, except as an owner with a small number of shares bought at what I thought was a reasonable price. If Joe LaStella must go to jail and drink the cup of hemlock, I salute him for his tenacity. I would not call Joe "scatterbrained" because he is seeking other applications for pulse charge technology. This is what any engineer would do. He has located physical principles which were not entirely unknown and applied them to improve the economy of transportation. Now he seeks to improve the economy of small diesel engine generators. If that makes Joe "scatterbrained", well, I must be The Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz! But I can see how Joe might get the reputation of telling a good story. Rhetoric was once the honorable profession of philosophers, like Plato and Socrates. It's just that his audience lacks the mental discipline to appreciate the tediously slow process of making evolutionary,as opposed to revolutionary progress. Even the Wright Brothers made evolutionary progress, they did not conceive of controlled powered flight independently, and there were even fewer witnesses to the deed. If the internet had existed in 1903, would Orville and Wilbur have been called liars? Don't answer that : it's rhetoric and you know the answer already.