Perpetual response
Monday, February 25th, 2008Earlier this month I wrote a story on an Ottawa-area inventor named Thane Heins who has developed a way to make electric induction motors more efficient, and possibly more — much more. The article used the words “perpetual motion” to hint at what Heins’ believes that “much more” might be. This, not surprisingly, unleashed a firestorm of criticism. But the critics weren’t the only ones to respond. In fact, a majority of those I heard from praised Heins for his efforts and encouraged him to go on.
I wrote a followup to this story in today’s Toronto Star, which you can find here and here. Click on both links. The second link gives examples of some of the e-mails I received. Some are quite… well, you be the judge.
NOTE: My apologies to the hundreds of people who e-mailed me. Unfortunately, I could not respond to most of you because of the volume.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.