by Sterling D. Allan
March 18, 2003
| Statement |
Correction |
| "What if we could travel as far as we wanted, by boat, by
car, by plane, without having to ever stop to refuel?" |
Tilley's charger system is very efficient, but it is not
endless. It is not "self generating" as claimed on Tilley's website. |
| "Speculation has abounded as to what fuels the Tilley black
box charger system. But the Foundation remains tight-lipped..." |
Former board member, Walter Webb, saw inside and reported that it
is nothing like Tilley was telling investors. |
| "The very shop in which they work is supposedly powered by
one of these self-charging units." |
Webb caught Tilley stringing an extension cord from his house to
the shop to "top off" the battery array. |
| "Most recently they ran an all-terrain vehicle hard for
twenty hours. ...With the self-charger device, the batteries were still fully charged
at the end of 20 hours." |
Webb points out that most all of the "witnesses" listed
on Tilley's site for this demo are on the Tilley payroll or are investors or board
members. Did he "run an extension cord" while no one was looking? The
vehicle did stop over night in the shop toward the end of the 20-hour test. |
| "...The failures have been mostly due to non-tilley-technology
factors. The most obvious ... example is the public demonstration of a DeLorean converted to
electric car that was to be run at record electric vehicle speeds and for hundreds of miles
in front of spectators at the Nashville Superspeedway, ... [it] was cut short after only a
few laps when the left rear axle bearings gave out...." |
A DeLorean club was on hand at the demo with spare parts,
including the one necessary to repair this problem; and mechanics were on hand who could
have changed it out in 20 minutes. Tilley refused and scrapped the demo. |
| "Inventor, Carl Tilley..." |
Tilley is not the inventor. Robert Kibbey is. Tilley
fraudulently led Kibbey to believe he had also come up with many of the ideas independently
prior to them meeting, so Kibbey allowed Tilley to be listed along with him on the
provisional patents they filed. |
| "Tilley calls the electricity coming out, 'cold
electricity.' He reports sending 700 amps through a cable the size of a pencil with no
heating of the cable." |
Without independent, reliable affidavits, this claim is most
likely a fib like most everything else that comes out of Tilley's mouth. |
| "Tilley adds that the two devices that he and Kibbey worked
on have nothing to do with the Tilley Foundation units." |
What Webb saw inside the secret box is what Kibbey and Tilley
worked on together. |
| "Tilley responds that he is taking care of these allegations
in court." |
Kibbey and Webb originated the lawsuit; Tilley violated court
order; is playing tricks with the legal system; for which his previous attorney fired him. |
| "TK Research and Development was a business Kibbey and
Tilley started that related to wind turbines, not the self-charging unit." |
Webb reports that what he saw inside the secret box is the wind
turbine generator. |
| "If the Tilley Foundation were collecting money from people,
then these accusations would need to be taken more seriously." |
Webb was responsible for assisting in bringing $401,000 of
investment money into the Foundation, before he resigned. |
| "The only money the Tilley Foundation is after is from a
party that can buy the technology outright." |
They have more investors than what Tennessee law allows, and have
leveraged their stock well over 200% -- violations the department of Commerce and Insurance
of the State of TN is currently investigating. |
| "The Tilley Foundation is not interested in manufacturing
and marketing the technology themselves." |
Tilley is not even interested in seeing the technology go to the
public. Tilley is not bashful about stating that his overwhelming motivation is money. |
| "It is that 'someone else' who has been requesting the
recent tests and who has been on hand with their engineers to oversee and verify to their
satisfaction." |
This is a questionable assertion, considering how many of the
potential buyers have been bogus assertions by Tilley, the most blatant of which was his
claim that GE offered $2 billion 'sight unseen' for the technology. |
| "Tilley is not interested in proving this to the world at
this point." |
Tilley is very much dependent on the 'dog and pony show' smoke
and mirrors to keep his investors from bailing. |
| "In a phone interview on January 14, 2003, Tilley reported
that he hopes to finalize within a few month a contract with a party that is purchasing the
entire technology outright." |
Typographical error. Should read "within a
month." That was January 14, two months ago; and still no buyer today (March
18). This has been the story with Tilley for more than a year now -- a buyer is always
just around the corner. It keeps the investors happy. There will never be a
buyer, because no one with billions of dollars would purchase a technology without first
testing it to their satisfaction; and Tilley's device will not perform as he claims. |
| "When asked what he will do next, after this project is
successfully handed off to another group, Tilley replied that he will be completing a
projection hologram system that enables T.V., video, DVD viewing without a screen." |
This is also Kibbey's idea that he naively shared with Tilley. |
http://perentech.com
(mentioned next to Sterling's name in title line) |
Changed to http://greaterthings.com
in draft that went to press. Sterling was not acting on behalf of
PerenTech when he composed this article. |
