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1. Inventor Jack Hansen on June 23rd, 2009 2:15 am

   Inventor Needs Help; ASAP
   …has a patented, university-tested, machine/process that had been being stopped. Now, one offending corporations has been sued in federal court, made to paid a $10,000,000 fine and made to close down in the USA. However, now, because of all of the wasted time I spent fighting the real corporations that had been stopping this new clean energy process from being built, Inventor Jack Hansen has been left penniless. “however, the federal courts have closed down the corporation that had been stopping competitive machines from being built.
   Today; federal investigators are showing that state people were also involved.

   > The following is parts from one of the PBS TV interview/stories about Inventor Jack Hansen:
   Inventor Creates Zero Emissions Garbage Disposing Fuel Generator
   It sounds like a Hollywood science-fiction movie: a little-known and rather odd-ball inventor designs a machine that, amazingly, turns common garbage into engine fuel. But this story is no fiction. An American inventor in the mid-Atlantic state of West Virginia has designed and built just such a machine, which he and his supporters claim can convert a wide range of materials, from medical waste to old tires, into a useful fuel. Erika Celeste introduces us to Jack Hansen, whose invention just might help America reduce its dependence on Middle Eastern oil, provide cheap local power for communities around the globe, and shrink the towering piles of garbage now choking America’s landfills.
   In the popular 1985 movie Back to the Future, a brilliant but eccentric scientist invents a way to fuel his time-traveling car with garbage. At the time, audiences laughed at the concept, but they didn’t know that inventor Jack Hansen was already busy trying to turn that concept into reality. Within five years of the film’s release, Mr. Hansen had created a machine that recycles old tires into oil.
   “We’re looking at a situation of ‘back to the future’ now. We take and make fuel for your car from waste,” Mr. Hansen said.
   The Hansen Environmental Recycling System, or HERS, for short, is easy to operate. Waste is processed electrically. While Mr. Hansen usually works with old waste tires, this new process can convert any hydrocarbon-based product, from medical waste to restaurant leftovers.
   “One easy way to explain the process is just melting things down as auto separation takes place,” he said. “hydrocarbons are much like a candle, if you melt a candle, the wick is left behind. When Processing hydrocarbons carbon-black remains captured.”
   Carbon black is used to make a wide variety of industrial products, from new tires and steel to ink toner and paint. And this new zero emissions Hansen Process also extracts oil which can serve as a feedstock for refineries, factories, as a home-heating fuel, or, with some additional refining, fuels for cars and trucks. The Hansen Process also produces gases, methane and hydrogen, which can be sold to power companies and also used in fuel cells.
   While the inventor concedes that the basic principle behind his new machine has been around for years, it is this new invention’s construction that makes it very unique. “I took out everything that I saw in all other systems around the world that break. In doing so I found ways to eliminate the chimney and 100% of all of the air emissions. ” said Mr. Hansen. “And no one else had done this before. So my processor is the only processor on the planet right now that has no moving parts and 100% Zero Emission as Energy is made while nasty waste and pollutions are completely eliminated.”
   His design is also the only one that doesn’t need to waste energy because it does not waste heat in the process.. It is more energy efficient, has no air emissions, no odors, and when the processor is running, it’s not hot to the touch. He adds that this energy-reclaiming system can be built in any size from one oz. to over a ton in sizes, to eliminate/accommodate as little or as much waste/garbage as the user needs to dispose of… as it converts it into new fuels.
   A machine that does so much with so little sounds too good to be true. So scientists at Marshall University, a respected West Virginia institution, conducted a study of the Hansen-Processors for Gov Underwood of West Virginia. Environmental specialist George Carico headed the project. He said he was impressed. “Simple things tend to work,” he said. “A couple of other things I like with this technology over conventional tire-burning methods is the much more efficient use of energy in The Hansen-Process. And The Hansen-Process is more ‘environmentally favorable’. ” With the university’s endorsement of this invention, the Inventor Hansen patented the HERS Processor and several design variations in December. Mr. Hansen is hopeful that his invention will speed the elimination of the billion-plus used tires now piling up in America’s waste landfills, unsightly trash that poses a danger of both fire and disease. Mr. Hansen says getting rid of those tire piles would cut down on the mosquito populations that breed within them, and help reduce outbreaks of the West Nile Virus.
   “We will clean the environment as we extract new energy, so the United States will have to import less energy – I can’t think of a drawback,” he said.
   George Carico is not sure of operational expenses because he only studied whether or the Hansen Process works and that it does, without any air emissions. Hansen says, “With the prices of energy going high The Hansen Process will be profitable”.
   “There are costs for mechanical separations, work involved with preparatory sizing to use in the processor as with any other types of processing. These things add to cost of processing,”
   Despite cost, a Michigan firm that raises capital for small businesses is investigating the Hansen’s processor. Owner Roger Clark said he’d like to build a test processor plant. Since Marshall U showed that the process works as stated, he hopes to put up 150 more around the country. The United States has room for at least 2,300 Clean-Air, Landfill Elimination, Energy-Recovery Hansen-Processing Factories.
   “We’re planning to allocate $25 million towards this project. We’ve raised most of it; we’re still in the process of looking for some investors for some additional amounts. We hope to start the project shortly after first of the year,” Mr. Clarke said.
   Because environmental laws in many countries are becoming stricter, international companies in need of efficient, affordable waste disposal are rushing to identify and support new technologies. Mr. Hansen said companies in China, Taiwan, and Australia are presently negotiating with him to obtain licensing rights to the processor. And a British company appears to be interested in using the hydrogen by-product of the processor in their fuel cells. All of which leaves Mr. Hansen with some very big dreams.
   “I want to see this Energy-Making process in every place on the planet that has more than 50,000 people!” Mr. Hansen said.
   SO: Contact: The Inventor Jack Hansen and REALLY start Cleaning our Planet by real waste-elimination by turning it back into the energy-the waste products were made from; “WITHOUT CAUSING ANY AIR EMISSIONS” no burning…no chimney.
   WASTE IN = ENERGY, PRODUCTS & SOLID CARBON OUT.

   I thank you for you time,
   Inventor Jack Hansen
   JackH333@msn.com

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2. Pete Sanchez on August 12th, 2009 9:12 am

   Gainesville, FL is where it’s at! GO GATORS!

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