IS THIS THE "BREAKTHROUGH" SOLAR ENGINE WE'VE ALL BEEN LOOKING FOR?

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Now stop and think about that for a minute. Just envision what you could do out there on the ole homestead (or even in the suburbs) if you had a steady 24-hour-a-day source of eight horsepower to tap any time you wanted to. Think of the grain mills and shop equipment and composting cutter-chippers and water pumps and electrical generators you could run . . . not all at once, to be sure, but one or two or three at a time.

Sure, you'll have to step that 1 rpm up through pulleys and/or a gearbox to the kinds of speeds that today's appliances and tools need for their proper operation. But that's no big deal. It's all been done before with real waterwheels. There's no new technology involved on that end of the Minto Wheel at all.

In fact, there's no real new technology involved in any part of this new engine. Just a simple rearranging of principles and materials that have been commonly available for decades. And that's the genius of the whole thing. The genius of Wallace Minto.

But can this actually be? Has Minto really come up with an unsophisticated, build-it-in-your-backyard, maintenance-free, lifetime "engine" that anyone can set up and operate for scores of years on nothing but sunshine, the heat from a small wood fire, or * . . or . . . or the warmth of a good-sized compost pile? Can this really be? It sounds too good to be true. But Minto says that it is true and, by the time this issue reaches you, he expects to have plans available for the construction of a 13-foot wheel of his design. (Plans, by the way, which can be scaled up to any size you might desire.)

Well, we haven't yet seen the prototype Minto Wheel ourselves so we can't vouch for its operation . . . but we have no reason to doubt Mr. Minto (who, as you may recall, developed an operational Freon automobile engine a few years ago) when he states what his wheel will do. So, until we find out that it won't work, we thought you should know that those plans are available for $10.00 a set from Sun Power Systems, Inc., 1121 Lewis Avenue, Sarasota, Florida 33577. Lot us know how your wheel comes out!

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