The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-01-06
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
Montrose Edison Claims to Have
Solved Worlds Fuel and Power
Problem

TUESDAY morning Inc IIeos man
gazed upon simple little machine at
the Montrose Motor Co. shop and lis
tened to its inventor AL G. Wood,
discourse upon the same, a machine
and a power, that Mr.. Wood claims
will solve the worlds fuel and power
problems.
If the machine works out as Mr..
Wood claims. it is an invention far
more reaching in its benefits than
anything else that has ever been dis
covered. He claims to have produced
and to be able to produce in unlim
tied quantities, fuel for manufac
turing power that is almost perpetual
motion itself so cheaply is it made.
The machine itself is dismantled
and not now being demonstrated, tho
two parties have seen it working and
say it is not dream.
The secret lies in small iron tank
% inches long and five inches in di-
ameter. 1t is charged with some kind
of a chemical that produces a high
pressure that can be run up from 100
to 200 or 300 pounds at will or the
tank can be exploded by the terrible
force of the power generated within
How the power is applied is not
given out. Mr.. Wood says that when
the engine is running there is no
sign of flame; no exhaust; it runs as
quietly as can be with but the sound
of h.,
Mr.. Wood has been working on this
engine and power for over 20 years
According to his statements. he has
arrived at that for which men have
striven for years, a cheap power
available for every purpose in the
face of a threatened coal, gas and
wood famine.
Mr.. Wood says the power is cheap
er than water power. He says that
he can place tank of it in an auto
mobile and with his engine drive the
same to Los Angeles and back for an
actual fuel and power expense of less
than $1.50. That he can put it on a
locomotive and pull train of cars to
Denver and back for less than $500.
He can remove the coal from the ten
der, install the engine, furnish the
heat and generate steam, keep the
head of steam up and furnish steam
power at this remarkable low rate.
Or he can apply the power direct and
do away with the steam in specially
designed locomotive In order to save
the expense of junking the steam To-
connective, he can use them and de-
velop steam power.
He says this fuel can be used any
where fuel and power are needed, in
autos locomotives, street cars, on the
farm, anywhere, for heat, light, fuel,
power.
Mr. Wood says he has nothing to
sell. He expects to promote a COM
pany and manufacture the fuel and
engine and give them to the public
at nominal cost. He hesitates to
sell out even though millions could
be secured, for fear some company
might use it as monopoly and the
PoDiiC HoI get the benefits. l
He says that by this secret locked
in his breast and known by no other
person on the globe, this fuel can be
manufactured until the end cf time
at cost so nominal as to be practi-
cally nil. There is no danger of it
ever becoming scarce or high priced.
When asked if he wasn't afraid
some one might steal the machine
and tank of fuel, he said no, for if
anyone monkeyed with it without
knowing how to handle it, they were
in dire danger of being blown to at
oms and not only themselves, but the
locality about them. All he would
say relative to the fuel is that it is
mere deadly dangerous than TINT. or
nitro glycerine and that in his opin-
ion. the big German guns that bonn
barded Paris, were not loaded with
powder, intimating it might have
been something similar to what he
has in this tank.
If the invention is what Mr.. Wood
says, he has something that will sup
plant coal, gasoline, kerosene and all
other fuels. 1t is the great thing so
needed to revolutionize industry,
commerce, transportation. manufac-
turing, in fact, the whole regime of
life, making it possible to have abun-
dant fuel, light, heat, anywhere at
l any and all times for it will be so
cheap that all can afford it.
He says he can develop one to 500
horse power as easily as can be.
There is no self-starter or crank on
the engine. Just turn screw and
the thing starts off on its work.