Thanks autogyro,autogyro wrote: I hope you understand that I have spent most of my life motivating others and that creating a little controversy goes a long way to stir up response.
I see where you are coming from, and what you try to achieve.
The jury is still out, if this (your), approach is the most effective.
Different people are motivated by different things. For some your approach (creating controversy, insulting ) may works, and yields the response you desire.
Others (like myself) will be just turned off by it, and stop listening.
Try to strive for a better balance in your approach, I´m sure you will have a higher sucess rate.
The money to develop your gearbox has to come from somewhere.
Seeing that it is mainly aimed towards the automotive world, I would say it will most likely come from a OEM. (car or transmission).
Now, if you walk into a boardroom meeting, declaring (literally) that all the engineers in the room are idiots, that the ICE powered car is dead and absolete and that you are the only person in the world who has the answer to it, chances are high that they will stop listening after 2 minutes.
Before you even come to the core of your invention, most people will have tuned you out, and made up their mind that you are a con men or jerk.
That is sad, but I can understand why, and I´m relative sure (even just reading the comments and discussions on this forum) that this is happening quite often to you.
I´m sure you are trying to do the right thing, maybe just try to find a better way to bring your POV across.
Don´t mix in your personal believes (you are entiteled to hold them), like that british engineering is superior or that you hold strong views against the US (goverment). It´s all good, but it will not help you when discussing with German or Japanese engineers or the US goverment/industry.
Because people will feel offended and will defend themself quickly, and the discussion will drift quickly away from the core (your gearbox the merrit of EV´s etc.). What you create is controversy, argument and discussion for the sake of itself. It will not bring you any closer to the solution for your problem.
It´s difficult to get credit/funding for a project from a bank(er), if you make it clear, that you think they are "satan and the evil of this world", the same goes for the automotive industry or a OEM, which makes his money with layshaft gearboxes.
The money for your inventions has to come from the profits of "old" technology and mature industries, because the new ones (Solar, windpower, EV´s) don´t generate any/enough profits on their own to fund your visions.
So for better or worse you will have to make "a pact with the devil" first, if you want to make the world a better place for the future.
If not you will be the one standing on the sidelines forever, not a player who tries to change the rules while playing the game first.
Sure if all goes wrong and we have finally killed the planet, you can have your "I told you so" moment, but it will be too late, and don´t help anyone.
First you have to become a player (even if you don´t like the game or the rules), then you can try to change the game for the better of it. IMHO
Good luck on your way, and now we should go back on topic here - for the rest of the time
? wing car / modern GE --> coke bottle shape, no flat bottom, 'full' GE 
