Inventor ready to display new motor

By DAN BELL

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After nearly three decades of trial and error, inventor Michael J. Marshall is set to show the world his electromagnetic motor.

Following a stint in the Army and employment with various electronics firms around the world, Marshall founded QSFG Research and Development Inc., now located in Las Vegas, in 1979. Marshall then began work on the motor he claims will mark a major technological breakthrough on society's dependence of fossil fuel engines and their adverse effects on the environment. Marshall said the electromagnetic motor requires no gasoline and regenerates the by-product stagnetic electricity that recharges the motor.

"QSFG stands for quick start fuelless generator," Marshall said. "Personally speaking, I'm tired of always going to the gas pumps and paying around $2 per gallon for gasoline. Using electricity as a fuel source we now have the means to create enough energy to go around the world without the use of a combustible-based engine."

Marshall said the electromagnetic motor works by using magnetic polarity. The motor's current prototype is a one-size fits all, 12 volt, 1,200 amp, direct current generator. The generator will bolt onto the drive train of any 1980 or newer American built vehicle, boat, plane, car or truck, and produce enough rotary power that speeds could reach 220 mph, if necessary. Marshall said generator upkeep is performed once every year, when the armature and brushes are cleaned.

"There is no one with this level of technology, so there are no competitors in this field," Marshall said. "The major automobile companies are now introducing hybrid power supply vehicles to the consumer. They cannot even come close to the sophistication of this technology, let alone the speeds and mileage the conversion kits can achieve and surpass as the future progresses."

Marshall said he chose the Las Vegas Speedway as the demonstration site for the prototype. The demonstration should come within the next two weeks, he said.

Marshall said QSFG is selling electromagnetic motor conversion kits for vehicles, not the vehicles themselves. Pricing strategy is to keep the kits at a price range that will cover all production costs, but at the same time, at a price that the majority of the population will be able to afford to purchase the kits.

Marshall said seven electromagnetic motor prototypes have been built at 187 machine shops around the United States in the last 10 years. The most recent prototype cost $1.7 million in design costs. The price of an electromagnetic motor conversion kit ranges from $3,600 for an automobile up to $38,000 for a propeller-type aviation machine, he said.

Marshall said southern Nevada has been selected as the site for QSFG's training center and first conversion kit assembly plant.

"We are in talks with the state of Nevada and the Bureau of Land Management to find land to put our assembly plant here," Marshall said. "The weather here is very conducive to our needs, and by coming to this region it would mean in excess of 17,500 jobs for Nevadans, and potentially millions more jobs around the world as we expand."

Over the next two years, QSFG will build its assembly plant and will seek sites around the country to construct motor manufacturing plants. Marshall said annual growth could reach about 16 percent each year in the automobile and truck division, to keep pace with new customer demands for the conversion kits. It will take 20 years to produce enough conversion kits for existing vehicles.

Since 1994, Marshall said 64 other nations have invited QSFG to bring their electromagnetic motor technology to their countries for product development.

"I declined their offers, even in the face of less production costs, because I believe in keeping my work in the United States where it all began," Marshall said.

Marshall, who said he was offered $17.4 billion by a foreign investor in 1998 to sell his technology, realizes his achievement, over the last 30 years with the electromagnetic motor, is more than a dollars and cents proposition.

"I am looking at this project as an inventor. I want to make sure we get this built and to the consumer. I did not develop the electromagnetic motor so it will sit on the shelf. I want the people to use this technology and see it used to clean up the environment by getting rid of our present fossil fuel powered vehicle system. That is one less bomb to take off the face of this earth."