I have been a member for many years and an investor, engineer and patent attorney for many more with experience in many technologies and products applications including textiles, organic and ceramic materials and composites, oil well synthetic proppants, ceramic fibers, whiskers, platlets for insulation and composites, and various aircraft and aerospace components and systems including aircraft wheels and brakes, landing gear, emergency escape systems among many others.

If your vision of the technological future is correct, then GE despite its severe damage under the direction of Mr. Immelt should be worth further consideration as a long term investment, unless its businesses and the technology portfolios underlying its turbine engines, power generation and synthethic diamond businesses are sold off to new owners. GE essentially invented and first commercialized the synthetic diamond business and certainly knows a huge amount about power generation through jet engines and through steam turbines, and about power management and distribution. From my direct involvement in ceramic materials R&D, I know for fact that GE is a leader and holds a very large patent portfolio relating to such materials, and composites products made from them. These types of materials will be necessary to achieve cleaner, higher efficiency internal combustion [turbine] engines.

Dave Ronyak