[AR] Re: kerosene coking (was Re: SSTO)
- From: Henry Vanderbilt <hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:37:19 -0700
On 2/11/2018 10:00 PM, Henry Spencer wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018, Henry Vanderbilt wrote:
As for XCOR's non-coking kerosene tech, not magic, just one of a lot
of areas where they applied clever lateral thinking to a common problem.
No surprise there... but it doesn't change the bottom line. Whether you
call it magic or clever lateral thinking, it's something that someone
else with a desire for non-coking kerosene can't necessarily duplicate
on command. So it's not a convincing argument for why people shouldn't
worry about the issue.
I'm pretty sure Randall was bragging about past glories - well, past
XCOR accomplishments - not advising anyone else that kerosene coking in
cooling passages isn't something to watch for.
I find it hard to blame him. Few of us came away with anything more
tangible than some cool accomplishments to recall, and Randall put in
more years than most.
And I doubt he wants to be a tease (Randall! Don't be a tease) but at
this point final disposition of the IP is still up in the air, with no
way of telling if it'll end up in the hands of someone organized enough
to find the old NDA's and litigious enough to enforce them.
As for me, I was just clarifying.
Alas, at this point XCOR's technological cleverness - and there was
quite a bit of it - is moot, as the nuts-and-bolts business management
was too seldom clever lateral thinking, too often too clever by half.
(Previous paragraph IMO. Just in case anyone who did come away with
money left for lawyers is feeling litigious...)
Henry V
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