I've known Frank for over 30 years and he has always been a dreamer of scams. He had us thinking he finally got one thing in his bag of tricks right because none of us knew about anything other than 2.4 GHz microwaves and that bit of knowledge came from a basic understanding of what we used in our kitchens. But that didn't take me too long to figure out what Frank already knew having a few years jump on this scam. It’s easy to play quarterback after the game is over and it’s easy to turn the other cheek if you are spending investor’s hard earned money. I’ll get this simple but it’s much more involving than mentioned here.
What people don’t know is this scam started out with a typical 2.45GHz microwave oven in a warehouse that we used to qualify our claims and it was Frank’s desire to keep the frequency a secret while he made claims of finding one in hundreds of thousands of frequencies that excited the molecules of materials best and everything being tested. In the mean time he ordered a variable frequency microwave oven from Lambda that was used for curing ceramics and that you could dial a frequency from a range in the X band spectrum.
The reason this X band frequency microwave oven being so important was because there’s already a patent for what we were claiming in hydrocarbons by someone else a few years back in 2.45GHZ range and no one could dispute the claims of the X band frequencies because no one before had used it except in the case of patented ceramic curing and the protected by military for VF radar jamming.
With the public restrictions lifted in the USA in 2007 of owning a VF X-band microwave device and one of the bad things about X band and any higher bands for that matter, was the enormous price of the tubes in relation to typical 2.45GHz magnetron, longevity of tubes was half that of magnetrons, and manufacturing multiple tubes in the quantities required many years of preparation.
But in the end a 2.45GHz magnetron will do the same job but, even that considerate of all required elements, is no cheaper than conventional pyrolysis.
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
