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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Gulle: What can we lose pursuing a hunch?
By Inocentes A. Gulle
Your Business is our Business
NOTHING can be said about our country's predicament under the present circumstances but hopeless. What with our endless insane political struggle at the top that even now seems to filter down to the local government levels, worsened by the ceaseless, progressive increase of oil price that now threatens our very national survival. These are but two of the many intertwined causes that keep the ever-increasing number of our poor millions living in worsening squalor in our urban slums and disease-ridden, economically depressed countryside, deprived of adequate sources of livelihood.
Hopeless, yes and there seems no way to turn to for help. Except maybe if we'd sell us to the devil? Or, haven't we already? The way things are, the left-handed devil has already a good stranglehold on us. And the more miserable our condition is the stronger his grip.
But wait! Call it a hunch. Call it a wild mental pilgrimage. Call it anything, but any way we look at it, it's an idea worth pursuing. It could probably save us from this hopeless situation. In any case, what can we lose pursuing this wildest of hunches when we have nothing more to lose? (Thanks to the comedians trying to play leaders; calling themselves statesmen, and us idiots, who voted them there.) Solve the oil crisis and we solve most of our other problems.
How? I heard it first in 1969 during a similar oil crunch, where every possibility was looked into by then Pres. Marcos. And then again when Kabayang Noli sensationalized it in his Magandang Gabi Bayan TV show. Again I happed on it in an item in the business section of a national daily. I don't think I am the only one who believes that water can be used for fuel and that a couple of our countrymen have already successfully proven it. All that is needed is the refinement of the process and mass-production of the product and we're made!
Maybe I'm only a simple-minded, less-than-average denizen of a small town, not even having made it to the top half of the class during my school days. But I think I have sense enough to know that the oxygen and hydrogen molecules making up water can be split and each could be an explosive substance. The author Jules Verne believed it. Physicists know it can be done; I read about one who said that oxygen separates from the hydrogen when water is put under a pressure of 10,000 p.s.i.
That a couple of our countrymen have successfully done it already is no longer is a question. Kabayang Noli knows it. If he has enough patriotic sense, he should be the first one to go after it. He should know that a certain Mr. Dingle had demonstrated to millions of TV viewers, a car that ran on water for fuel. A Mr. Carl Castillo showed a picture of his hydrogen-generating device in the newspaper and what is needed is only some refinement and we can mass-produce the water-fueled engine.
Having this alternative power-producing technology would not only save us billions of dollars of fuel money but save the millions of our poor from their dire living conditions, let alone make the Philippines the richest nation in the world.
So what are we waiting for? Or shall we remain idiots?
(August 29, 2005 issue)
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