Calling you Gear heads - Who is Jonathon Goodwin?

I will read almost anything that isn't pornographic or which proselytizes for Christianity, so recently I picked up a copy of the November 2007 issue of "Fast Company". The cover story is about Jonathon Goodwin, a motorhead from Wichita, KS. If you can't find a copy, put a comment with your email & I'll send a set of scans. I've been reading this article until I nearly have it memorized and it makes me so excited, I nearly drool.
Jonathon Goodwin has figured out a way to use off-the-shelf parts in new arrangements to get amazing mileage out of engines - especially big ones and diesel - while increasing their power output and radically decreasing their emissions. Intellectually speaking, this is a man after my own heart.
Like many other people, I've always known that the solution to the oil problem - & now, to the global warming problem - is tons simpler than the automakers & the oil companies would like us to believe. Unlike many people, I have the training and experience to know, rather than simply to guess at this. Unfortunately, I haven't had the money & tools to tinker and see what resulted when I had the time. A problem lots of women, ITI, and minorities have, it seems. It costs the world greatly, this waste of creativity, and it will so long as the majority culture's predominant attitude is one of "massas and slaves". That attitude is anti-environment, anti-people, and just plain disrespectful. Maybe blogs such as this one will redirect that. We can hope.
Regardless - Even with training, skills, and knowledge, most of us are just too busy scratching for a living & slaving to hold the ITI / Indian world together in the face of continuing assaults by the majority culture. Luckily, not everyone is in this position, and I'm so0o thankful for that. Jonathon Goodwin is one such.
I first got involved with diesel engines about 4 years ago. The diesel engine is easier to reconfigure (tinker with) than the gasoline engine, was originally designed to run on peanut and other vegetable oils, and puts out more usable power per unit of displacement. In case you hadn't already figured it out, I'm a wrench-wench. Hmm - OK, a granny wrench-wench.
Age is just a number; it doesn't matter how long you've walked the earth or hung around the fort; it matters what you did while you were walking. Joan of Arc, Crazy Horse, and others from every culture prove that. I've always been a 'whiz kid', and I expect to be one until I die.
Regardless - if enough people put their heads together we should be able to come up with simple, workable ways to help him put his discoveries together in a form that large numbers of people can put to work in their own vehicles, and so make a really valuable contribution to a whole list of problems confronting oil use and global warming.
Duwahleh! Now there's a really radical and useful thought!