Paul Pantone
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Paul Pantone is an inventor who claims to have invented Global Environmental Energy Technology (GEET), a technology that replaces the standard carburetor of an internal combustion engine.
A U.S. patent was issued to Pantone for a "Fuel pretreater apparatus and method" on 18 August 1998. The system supposedly triples fuel efficiency and cuts pollution by 90% by simply transferring exhaust heat to the fuel intake. Pantone claims the instantaneous pressure fluctuations in the exhaust help to create a vacuum that, when combined with the heat, creates micro-magnetic forces. This produces a plasma that dissociates the hydrogen from the oxygen in the carburetor. Although there are a few reports on the Internet that claim his technology works, no reputable scientific studies have substantiated his claims.
Fraud charge
In 2002, Pantone was found guilty of securities fraud for selling shares under false pretenses, cheating investors out of as much as $25K each. Pantone supposedly sold the technology to a Dennis Lee of New Jersey, who has continued selling plans and training related to GEET. Pantone has since claimed that Lee was never given ownership of GEET, and that Lee is thereby illegally selling the technology to others. Lee is also known as a purveyor of other unorthodox free energy technologies that seem to violate the second law of thermodynamics and other laws like conservation of mass, and seems to infuse all of these technologies with theological overtones in a group called "Better World Technologies".
On 3 October 2003, Pantone was issued a cease and desist order and order to show cause from the Utah department of commerce. The document states that Pantone had apparently attempted to illegally sell stock to Glenn Robertson of Quebec, that Pantone had previously been charged with "four second-degree felony counts of Securities Fraud, one third-degree felony count of Securities Fraud, one third-degree felony count of Selling an Unregistered Security and one second-degree felony count of Pattern of Unlawful Activity", that Pantone claimed in 2002 bankruptcy procedings that he owned "a bare patent with no beneficial interest or value", and that he had transferred ownership of the GEET technology to Robert Fackrell in 2002. On 8 October 2004 Pantone pled guilty to two counts of securities fraud, and the other charges were dismissed.
External Links
- GEET International Institute (http://www.geet.com)
- 1998 patent issued to Paul Pantone (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F5794601)
- Cease and desist order from Utah Dept. of Commerce (http://www.securities.state.ut.us/dockets/03006301.pdf)
- Pantone's response to cease and desist order (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FE-OU-FraudVictims/message/166)
- Professor Shields (http://members.tripod.com/professor_shields/geet.htm) - website claiming some positive results with GEET
- phact.org (http://www.phact.org/e/z/geet.htm) - includes testimonials both positive and negative. It also presents documents showing guilty pleas in October 2004