PHILIPPINS MISSES BOAT ON WATER CAR INVENTION DUE TO GOVERNMENT’S INDIFFERENCE — PIMENTEL

Pimentel said he made this assertion because only days
ago, Honda engineers formally announced that the
company is now marketing water-powered cars. He said
water, as any Chemistry 101 student would know, has
two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. By coming out
with an engine that manipulates the mixture, Honda
water-run cars are now ready for the market.

“In that respect, we lost the race to come up with our
native discovery of water-run vehicle. From 1986 to
2007 is 21 years. For 21 years, we took no note of all
of the inventions that had the potential to save
millions of dollars worth of gasoline imports – money
that could be used to build roads, schools, hospitals
and a thousand other things and make us less dependent
on the Middle East for our fuel needs and on other
super-powers for our other needs,” Pimentel said.

On another scientific breakthrough in power
generation, Pimentel said that in late 2003 Isidro
Umali Ursua informed him that a group of Filipino
inventors had discovered a way to produce all of the
country’s electrical power requirements without the
use of diesel or fossil fuel by extracting power from
the “tidal flow of our ocean.”

Ursua and his group filed a patent application with
the World Intellectual Property Office after
presenting their invention to several government
entities, including the National Power Corporation,
Department of Energy and National Electrification
Administration.

Ursua said the engineers in these agencies “were
convinced (about the invention) but no one seems to
care or help.”

Pimentel said upon his request as a senator, the
Department of Science and Technology evaluated the
proposal to extract energy from ocean waves. But in
early 2004, the DOST, through Undersecretary Rogelio
Panlasigui replied that the evaluation did not
materialize because certain steps had to be undertaken
but which were not done.

According to Pimentel, the idea of harnessing ocean
waves for electricity as Ursua had suggested to the
government at the turn of the current century now
appears to be the subject of separate experimental
runs by companies from the United Kingdom, the United
States, Canada and Australia.

“What riles me up is the fact that the two inventions
that I mention in… were in the hands of Filipino
inventors waiting for the government authorities to
get them off the drawing board into the government
testing field, hopefully into the national market and
eventually into the world market,” he said.

As a consequence, Pimentel said the Filipinos missed
two boats – Dingle’s water car invention and Ursua’s
machine for harnessing ocean waves for energy needs –
in preparing the country for the oil crunch that
everybody foretold will come sooner than later.
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